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Martin Eberhard is co-founder and former CEO of Tesla Motors, an electric car company in San Carlos, California. He was born in Berkeley, California on May 15, 1960. Tesla Motors, Inc. ...
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Eberhard is passionate about sportscars but has moral disagreements regarding dependence on oil imported from the Middle East and is also concerned about possible human causes of global warming. This led to his co-founding Silicon Valley's first automobile company with Marc Tarpenning. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ...
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Eberhard has placed a 100% deposit to reserve the second car in the Tesla Motors Founder's Series, which is the first series of the Tesla Roadster[1]. This series is reserved for the two founders and the investors in Tesla Motors. The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sportscar with over 200 mile range. The Tesla Roadster is a fully electric sports car, and is the first car to be produced by electric car firm Tesla Motors. ...
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Eberhard was ranked among the top 24 innovators of 2007[2] by Fortune Magazine. Also in 2007, Business 2.0 Magazine ranked Eberhard number 32 of the 50 people who matter now. [3] Categories: Magazines stubs | Time Warner subsidiaries | Business magazines ...
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History
Eberhard grew up in Kensington, California, attending Kensington Hilltop Elementary School there. He attended junior high school and high school in adjacent El Cerrito until the middle of 11th grade, when his family moved to Elmhurst, Illinois. He graduated from York Community High School in 1978. Kensington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, California. ...
El Cerrito High School is located at 540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, California 94530 El Cerrito High is a public school in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. ...
El Cerrito is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. ...
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York Community High School is a school in Elmhurst, Illinois. ...
Eberhard received his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering in 1982, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He subsequently earned his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983 from the same school. Computer engineering (also called electronic and computer engineering) is a discipline that combines elements of both electrical engineering and computer science. ...
A Corner of Main Quad The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, or simply Illinois), is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. ...
A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...
Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ...
Eberhard began his career as an electrical engineer at Wyse Technology, where he designed the [WY-30] ASCII computer terminal as his first product. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Later, Eberhard co-founded and founded start-ups Network Computing Devices, Inc. (making X Window-based network terminals) and NuvoMedia (making the Rocket eBook), respectively. Network Computing Devices is a company founded by Judith Estrin and William Carrico in the late 1980s to produce a new class of products now known as a thin client. At that time these devices were known as network terminals or X Terminals. ...
Quotes "A key element to be a successful entrepreneur is a certain amount of naivety, because if you actually know how hard the problem is when you set out, you don't do it." - Stanford University, 10/10/07
"We’re not just juggling a lot of balls. We’re juggling knives and chainsaws and burning things. We have to catch every one of them, and we have to catch them by their handles."[4]
"Because a car crash is fundamentally different than a software crash" [5]
References - ^ http://www.teslamotors.com/media/press_room.php?id=29
- ^ http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0704/gallery.fortune_innovators.fortune/14.html
- ^ http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0706/gallery.50whomatter.biz2/32.html
- ^ http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=52
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNrRepLBFvE
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