US-based electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc, owned by Elon Musk, who also owns aerospace company Space X, has set up ‘Tesla Greece’, a local research and development subsidiary located in Athens. Tesla’s engineering and design teams are primarily based in the US, but the company has been expanding internationally over the last few years with teams in the UK and Germany, and now in Greece, where they will based in Lefkippos technological park, on the grounds of Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research (N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”).