Tesla Explained

Tesla most commonly refers to:

• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
• Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.
• Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density

Tesla may also refer to:

Companies and organizations

• Tesla a.s., a Czech electronics company
• Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing, a former company in Rahway, New Jersey, US

Media and entertainment

• Tesla (band), an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California
• Tesla – Lightning in His Hand, a 2003 opera by Constantine Koukias
• "Tesla", a song on the 2013 album Nanobots by They Might Be Giants
• "Tesla" (song), a 2023 song by Lil Yachty
• "Tesla", a 2008 song by the Bosnian band Letu štuke
• Tesla (2016 film), a 2016 film by David Grubin
• Tesla (2020 film), a 2020 film by Michael Almereyda

Places

• Tesla, California, a former coal mining town in Corral Hollow, California, US
• Tesla, West Virginia, US
• Tesla Fault, a geological formation in the Diablo Range, California, US
• Tesla River, Romania

Space

• 2244 Tesla, an asteroid discovered in 1952
• Tesla (crater), a lunar crater

Science and technology

• Tesla (microarchitecture), a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia
• Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, a proposed particle collider, now part of the International Linear Collider project
• Nvidia Tesla, a brand of GPGPU cards with the Tesla microarchitecture

See also

• List of things named after Nikola Tesla
• List of Nikola Tesla patents
• Nikola Tesla (disambiguation)
• Nikola Tesla in popular culture
  • • Tesler, a surname
• TSLAQ, a loose collective critical of Tesla, Inc.