Car company names have a variety of origins. Some automakers like Ford, Chevrolet, and Honda took the surnames of their founders as a corporate moniker. Pontiac was named after the Michigan city where it was located, which took its name from an Ottawa chief who had contested British occupation of the Great Lakes area. In 2003, a year before Elon Musk took over as chairman, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning named their innovative electric car company after inventor Nikola Tesla. The origin
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