{"id":5972,"date":"2010-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:49:44","slug":"tesla-toyota-alleanza-maggio-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/tesla-toyota-alleanza-maggio-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla and Toyota: a 2010 alliance brings batteries and manufacturing together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"th-cover-credit\" style=\"font-size:9px;line-height:1.5\">First-generation Roadster photographed in March 2018, not at the announcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tesla_Roadster_(41396055185).jpg\">FotoSleuth<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>. Resized with Teslhub graphics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"th-archive-note\" style=\"font-size:9px;line-height:1.5\" data-th-archive-note=\"true\"><em>Archive article written on 9 November 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In May 2010, Tesla and Toyota announced plans to work together on electric vehicles. The proposed cooperation covered components, production systems and engineering support, bringing a young company\u2019s technology together with a major manufacturer\u2019s industrial experience.<\/p>\n<h2>An investment linked to the IPO<\/h2>\n<p>Toyota had agreed to buy $50 million of Tesla shares through a private placement scheduled to close immediately after Tesla\u2019s planned IPO. The investment therefore followed a defined process and condition; the cooperation announcement came before its completion.<\/p>\n<p>The companies intended to form a team of specialists. Akio Toyoda highlighted Tesla\u2019s entrepreneurial approach and quick decision-making as opportunities to learn, while Elon Musk pointed to Toyota\u2019s engineering and manufacturing expertise.<\/p>\n<h2>More than funding<\/h2>\n<p>Tesla had delivered more than a thousand Roadsters across North America, Europe and Asia. Reaching a wider audience also meant addressing the work behind the vehicle: suppliers, processes and manufacturing capacity. The agreement put these capabilities at its centre, without yet announcing a jointly developed new model ready for customers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2010 Tesla and Toyota announced electric-vehicle and manufacturing cooperation, alongside a planned $50 million investment.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[180,63],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-settore-ev","tag-recupero-archivio","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5987,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}