Elon Musk Plans to Stay with Tesla for Several More Years

Elon Musk says that he will stay on as TeslaTeslaUnited States of America, 2003 > present4 models
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CEO for at least the next several years. There had been some speculation that Musk might leave to work more intently on his rocket company SpaceX. 

Musk also said that he does the final inspections on some of the Tesla Model STesla Model SUnited States of America, 2012 > present7 versions
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sedans personally. 

He tests "everything from functionality, to fit and finish. Anything from door handles to carpet to molding, to driving... The things we are potentially having to work on are not big things – 98 percent of the car is ready to go," said Tesla spokesperson Christina Ra. 

Tesla delivered the first Model S on June 22, and expects to sell 5,000 units by the end of the year. The Model S will go on sale in Europe and Asia in 2013. 

The company plans to launch the Model X crossover based on the same platform as the Model S later in 2013. 

Musk was part of the team that founded Tesla in 2003. The first Tesla RoadsterTesla Roadster Gen.1United States of America, 2006 > 20123 versions
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was sold in 2008. Musk is a serial entrepreneur. He founded an online publishing platform called Zip2 in 1995 and sold it for $307 million in 1999, the year he founded the company that would become PayPal. In 2002, he also founded SpaceX, which in 2012 became the first private company in history to build and launch a vehicle to dock with the International Space Station. It aims to make space launches cheaper. 

Source: Autoblog Green