McIntyre September 6, 2014 8:46 am EDT. A new Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) “gigafactory” based in Nevada eventually will employ 6,000 people. Tesla currently has about that number of employees, which seems very modest for a car manufacturer that has aspirations to sell over half a million cars in 2020. read more
This statistic displays the number of full-time employees working at Tesla Motors between July 2010 and December 2017. The number of people employed by Tesla came to 37,543 in 2017. This figure is still considerably lower than that of other vehicle manufacturers: General Motors employed around 213,000 people in 2012. read more
Tesla's latest S-1 filing: "As of May 31, 2010, we had 646 employees worldwide." http: //edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312510139143/ds1a.htm This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. read more
Tesla’s growth plans for its solar business with the recent acquisition of SolarCity are less clear, but they are taking over manufacturing with Panasonic at SolarCity’s new factory in Buffalo, where the company promised to employ over 1,400 people in manufacturing and R&D, as well as over 3,000 people in the state of New York as part of a deal with the state for the construction of the factory. read more