Tesla has switched its domain address from Teslamotors.com simply to Tesla.com, indicating that the automaker may drop the ‘Motors’ from its name entirely.
It was only in February that the electric automaker secured the rights to the Tesla.com name after it was first registered in 1992. Created by Stu Grossman 23 years ago, the domain name wasn’t used except for Grossman to send and receive emails on his private server. It is reported that Tesla Motors paid Grossman an undisclosed amount to relinquish ownership of the website.
Immediately afterwards, Tesla.com redirected users to Teslamotors.com, but now five months later, that has swapped around and the Tesla.com domain is now home to the automaker’s official website.
Given Tesla’s ongoing diversification into the home energy field and soon, a major manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, it’s certainly possible Elon Musk’s electric automaker may simply become ‘Tesla’.
That being said, Musk failed to deny or confirm such talk in the release of the company’s second master plan that included details about how Tesla will expand its solar panel business and venture into the heavy-duty truck and public transport industries.
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