Biography | Elon Musk — The NUMMI Shed in Fremont Where Tesla Started Building Cars

People treat Tesla as an Austin headquarters that arrived already named Cybertruck. The factory that first made the volume cars is here, at 45500 Fremont Boulevard, on the old NUMMI lot that General Motors and Toyota vacated in 2010. Musk led Tesla's 2004 investment round and became chairman. He took the chief executive title in 2008, the same year the first Roadster deliveries went out and SpaceX's fourth Falcon 1 flew. The Model S line that followed was built in this shed. Fremont is not the first Tesla address. The company began in San Carlos and Palo Alto. It is the address where the cars stopped being a kit and became a plant. A visitor today finds a working assembly site, not a plaque. The Giga Texas campus later took the headquarters letterhead. The California lot kept stamping bodies. 2010 is the year Tesla took the plant. Fremont is the pin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Tesla Factory, Fremont