The Tesla Space Posted: March 10, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 Explore how Tesla took Nikola Tesla’s century-old AC induction motor design and transformed it into a high-tech marvel for ...

4-pole AC induction motor that will power the revolutionary Tesla Roadster. Eberhard's most recent blog covers the development of the motor, starting with Nikola Tesla's original patents from 1888.

It's an homage to Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the Serbian inventor and engineer who created the induction motor and alternating-current (AC) power transmission. According to an old post on the ...

In Nikola Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse, the inventor was promised a bonus of $2.50 for every horsepower of alternating current sold. But making Tesla's AC motor was expensive ...