Not sure if this has been posted before but...
They've sold out their first wave of $100K electric cars and hope to sell as many as 10,000 a year. The car's are assembled by Lotus in England,
Norway built chasis, Thai batteries and braking from Germany.
Boss of the Company is the guy who sold Paypal and made $300M on the deal.
Elon Musk is also into space exlporation and is putting together the first franchise style effort to put solar panels on houses.
http://www.solarcity.com/
http://www.teslamotors.com/