"Tesla almost had a very different name—until Elon Musk and his co-founders bought the rights to “Tesla” for $75,000" https://fortune.com/2018/12/09/tesla-name

"Tesla almost had a very different name—until Elon Musk and his co-founders bought the rights to “Tesla” for $75,000" https://fortune.com/2018/12/09/tesla-name-faraday-elon-musk/ https://fortune.com/2018/12/09/tesla-name-faraday-elon-musk/