1·The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and enabling humans to live on other planets.
特斯拉汽车和 SpaceX 这两家科技公司的创始人正在将电动汽车推向大众市场，并使人类能够在其它行星上生活。
2·But the arrival of the Tesla shows that Germany could still lose the race.
但是，特斯拉的到来显示，德国仍然可能会输掉这场竞赛。
3·By contrast, the Tesla Roadster USES just one gear-such is the flexibility of its three-phase induction motor.
相反地，特斯拉跑车公司只需要动用一个传动设备——那就是三相诱导式发动机的灵活性。
4·The company was founded seven years ago, and it started selling its all-electric Tesla Roadster in 2008.
这个公司成立于七年前，并在2008年就开始销售它的纯电动特斯拉跑车。
5·At the beginning of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla proposed using huge coils to transmit electricity through the troposphere to power homes.
早在20世纪初，尼古拉·特斯拉就提出利用巨型线圈，通过大气对流层将电输送到千家万户。