Henry Ford over to his son Edsel Ford in December 1918. Henry retained final decision authority and sometimes reversed the decisions of his son. Ford started another company, Henry Ford and Son, and made a show of taking himself and his best employees to the new company; the goal was to scare the remaining holdout stockholders of the Ford Motor Company to sell their stakes to him before they lost most of their value. (He was determined to have full control over strategic decisions.) The ruse worked, and Ford and Edsel purchased all remaining stock from the other investors, thus giving the
Tesla Model S the Model S in 2015 due to poor reliability, one year later, "Consumer Reports" added the car to its recommended list. Tesla said that after three years (by June 2015), Model S cars traveled over 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km), the first plug-in electric car to reach that total. In 2014 the Volt total was 629 million all-electric miles (1 billion km) out of a total of 1 billion miles traveled, while Nissan said the Leaf had accumulated 625 million total miles. Tesla said 68% of Model S travel was in North America, 25% in Europe and 7% in