Tesla’s engineering and design teams are primarily based in the US and especially in California, but the company has been expanding internationally over the last few years with teams in the UK and Germany.
Now we learn that the automaker is also building a small research and development office in Athens, Greece to develop new electric motor technologies.
Several reports came out of Greece over the last few weeks about rumors of Tesla establishing a local presence in the country.
The nature of the company’s presence was never clear since Greece is a market that Tesla has yet to officially enter.
We reached out to the company for a comment on the situation and a spokesperson confirmed that Tesla is establishing a local research and development office:
“Tesla is building a small research and development office in Athens, which will be comprised of a highly-qualified engineering team. This team will focus solely on limited research and development activities to accelerate electric motor technology development through close collaboration with our team in the US.”Three of Tesla’s top electric motor designers, Principal Motor Designer Konstantinos Laskaris, Motor Design Engineer Konstantinos Bourchas, and Staff Motor Design Engineer Vasilis Papanikolaou, all came out of the National Technical University of Athens.
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