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Tesla

Logo: TESLA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Czech manufacturer of electronical and electrical equipment

TESLA a.s. is a Czech manufacturer and supplier of special radio communication and security electrical engineering for military and commercial use. The name was originally used by a state-owned conglomerate that was the monopoly producer of electronic appliances and components in the former Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia. The conglomerate was founded in 1946 and ran until 1991, when it was privatised.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jun 3, 1991Founded1
  • Industryindustrial manufacturing1
  • HeadquartersPrague1
  • Founded inPrague1
  • Websitewww.tesla.cz
  • Legal formakciová společnost1
  • LEI315700ZP82W86AWCUB283
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressRubeška 215/1, 190 00 Praha 9, Czechia3
  • Registered withMinistry of Justice, 000097093

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Tesla Radio vitrage
Photo: Ludek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

TESLA a.s. is a Czech manufacturer and supplier of special radio communication and security electrical engineering for military and commercial use. The name was originally used by a state-owned conglomerate that was the monopoly producer of electronic appliances and components in the former Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia. The conglomerate was founded in 1946 and ran until 1991, when it was privatised. The Tesla name is used by its successor company and former subsidiaries in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.2

Corporate structure

Tesla is part of a group headed by TESLA ASSET HOLDING LIMITED. 2 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Tesla reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • TESLA

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

  • electronics industry

Listed on Wikidata.1

The original Tesla concern developed a wide product range including televisions, radio receivers, transistors, integrated circuits, visual display units, loudspeakers, gramophones, cassette decks, Compact Disc players and videocassette recorders. However, the quantity produced was often insufficient for industrial customers and some products became obsolete because they were not updated; e.g. one particular type of diode was manufactured for over 30 years without modification. Some products were comparable with those from international producers e.g. silicon controlled rectifiers (SCRs) or power transistors and Tesla exported them to other countries in Eastern Europe. A few products were exported to western countries, for example, the NC 470 turntable rebranded as the NAD 5120, and the NC 450, NC 452, NC 430 turntables sold under the tradename Lenco.

In 1953, the production of the first Czechoslovak television, the Tesla 4001A, began in Strašnice. The first Czechoslovak color television, the Tesla 4401A, began manufacturing in 1974.

The best-known Tesla products internationally were the 308U Talisman bakelite radio designed by Igor Didov of Tesla Bratislava and made by several Tesla company branches between 1953 and 1958 and the Sonet duo reel-to-reel tape recorder (1959–1965). Tesla was also known for its KRTP-86 Tamara military passive radar (TESLA Pardubice, 1986), which was claimed to be the only one in the world able to detect stealth aircraft.

From Wikipedia’s article on Tesla a.s., shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

  • TESLA

Parent company (GLEIF)

From Wikidata.1 Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Timeline

  1. Sep 2, 2022Parent Directly consolidated by TESLA ASSET HOLDING LIMITED3
  2. Dec 19, 2000Renamed Name changed to TESLA, akciová společnost1
  3. Jun 3, 1991Founded Founded in Prague1

Sources

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