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I didn't realise that there was a Tesla before Tesla.

• tpm 4y ago
  It was a state-owned electronics company which pretty much ceased to exist after the fall of communism because the products were far behind western and Asian. Some subsidiaries still exist under different names. Edited: apparently Tesla Stropkov still exists under its old name, and even owns the tesla.sk domain
  • timeon 4y ago
    Tesla Stropkov was just branch. We had this phone at home but also products from Tesla Bratislava (like PMD) or Tesla Praha. Interesting that Tesla Stropkov is still existing and has retained Tesla logo. I always forget that there is still something in the east (of Bratislava).
    • dfox 4y ago
      There technically never was a “Tesla Inc.” with separate branches. There was a bunch of essentially unrelated companies named “Tesla something” that used the same brand and (obviously) traded with each other. There was similar pattern with “ČKD” and “Škoda”. Some of these companies still exist under the original name (eg. Tesla Stropkov), some ceased to exist, one of them did slight rebranding (Teco = TEsla KOlin), some of them did more extensive rebranding and restructuralization and some of them were integrated into multinational electronics manufacturers (Philips, Motorola, Infineon, TDK, Sony, Foxconn…). Somewhat interestingly the part of Tesla that originally was Czechoslovak branch of Philips is today owned by NXP, but it didn't happen directly but through Motorola and Freescale.