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Tesla, Inc. Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles (electric cars and trucks), battery energy storage from home to grid- ...

, an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc. *

Tesla (unit) The tesla (symbol: T) is the unit of magnetic flux density (also called magnetic B-field strength) in the International System of Units (SI). One tesla is equal to one weber per square metre. The unit was announced during the General Confer ...

(symbol: T), the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density Tesla may also refer to:

Companies and organizations

Tesla (Czechoslovak company) Tesla (stylized as TESLA) is a Czech brand of electronic appliances. The name was originally used by a state-owned conglomerate that was the monopoly producer of electronic appliances and components in the former Socialist Republic of Czechoslov ...

, a former state-owned conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia *

Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company was an electric lighting company in Rahway, New Jersey that operated from December 1884 through 1886. History Based at the site where 1571-1579 Irving Street now stands, on Irving Street between Co ...

, a former company in Rahway, New Jersey, US *

Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (also known as TSCW) is a nonprofit organization established to develop a regional science and technology center, museum and makerspace at the site of Nikola Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory on Lo ...

, a proposed science museum in New York, US

Media and entertainment

Tesla (band) Tesla is an American rock band from Sacramento, California. In late 1981, bassist Brian Wheat and guitarist Frank Hannon formed a band named City Kidd, which evolved into Tesla. By 1984, vocalist Jeff Keith, guitarist Tommy Skeoch, and drummer ...

, an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California * ''

Tesla – Lightning in His Hand ''Tesla – Lightning in His Hand'' is a large-scale opera about Serbian American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), composed by Constantine Koukias, a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, whe ...

'', a 2003 opera by Constantine Koukias * "Tesla", a song on the 2013 album ''

Nanobots Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). More specifically, nanorobotics (as opposed to mi ...

'' by They Might Be Giants * ''Tesla'' (2016 film), a 2016 film by David Grubin * ''Tesla'' (2020 film), a 2020 film by Michael Almereyda

Places

* Tesla, a former coal mining town in

Corral Hollow Corral Hollow, formed by Corral Hollow Creek, is a canyon partially located in Alameda County, with parts in San Joaquin County, southwest of Tracy, California. Corral Hollow Creek, formerly El Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres (The Creek of the Goo ...

, California, US * Tesla, West Virginia, US *

Tesla Fault The Tesla Fault can be found in the northeastern Diablo Range, California. This fault is only semi-active. Geology This fault has been demonstrated to have a dextral offset of and is closely associated with the Greenville Fault. Mocho Subbas ...

, a geological formation in the Diablo Range, California, US *

Tesla River 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-d ...

, Romania

Space

2244 Tesla 2244 Tesla, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 October 1952, by Serbian astronomer Milorad Protić at the Belgrade ...

, an asteroid discovered in 1952 *

Tesla (crater) Tesla is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, just to the southeast of the larger H. G. Wells. About one crater diameter to the southwest of Tesla is Kidinnu, and to the southeast is Van Maanen. The crater is named af ...

, a lunar crater

Science and technology

Tesla (microarchitecture) Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2006, as the successor to Curie microarchitecture. It was named after the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. As Nvidia's first microarchitecture to ...

, a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia *

Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed linear particle accelerator. It is planned to have a collision energy of 500 GeV initially, with the possibility for a later upgrade to 1000 GeV (1 TeV). Although early proposed ...

, a proposed particle collider, now part of the International Linear Collider project *

Tesla valve A Tesla valve, called a valvular conduit by its inventor, is a fixed-geometry passive check valve. It allows a fluid to flow preferentially in one direction, without moving parts. The device is named after Nikola Tesla, who was awarded in 1920 ...

, a fixed-geometry passive check valve *

Nvidia Tesla Nvidia Tesla was the name of Nvidia's line of products targeted at stream processing or general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), named after pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Its products began using GPUs from the G80 seri ...

, a brand of GPGPU cards with the Tesla microarchitecture *

Tesla coil A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891. It is used to produce high-voltage, low- current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla experimented with a number of differen ...

, a type of resonant transformer circuit

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Media and entertainment

Places

Space

Science and technology

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