How to Use tesla in a Sentence

tesla

noun
  • These coils can produce field strengths over 8 teslas.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Tesla faces competition not just from pure all-electrics, but from hybrids.
    — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 5 July 2017
  • The plan was to run a current through it, resulting in a magnetic field of twenty tesla.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The field measured out to 1,200 teslas, a unit of magnetic measurement.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2018
  • This rapid shift creates a magnetic field of 40 tesla, a force roughly one million times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026
  • The magnet demonstrated a magnetic field that measured 20 tesla.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • Tesla estimates that fill-ups for a trip from California to New York would cost around $120.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Only very costly and rare cobalt-iron vacuum steel materials can reach magnetic-flux densities of 2 teslas or more.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
  • The National MagLab has the world’s strongest hybrid magnet which reaches 45 tesla.
    — Gary Fineout, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The chemistry can be volatile, and several early Teslas caught fire before the company built a titanium shield under the vehicle to guard against fire or damage.
    — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 24 July 2016
  • Tesla records also show that 75 percent of the ambulance trips were unrelated to work injuries, for example, an illness or another pre-existing condition.
    — Louis Hansen, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
  • Each 24-ton magnet produces a 20-tesla magnetic field, a strength approximately 13 times that of a standard MRI machine.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
  • Here, in a community space open to the public, were microscopes, pipettes, centrifuges, a PCR machine, an industrial freezer, an enormous tesla coil, and a few dozen exuberant people delighted to show me around and teach me.
    — Guest, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2015
  • The test achieved a stable superconducting current of 40 kA under a 7-tesla magnetic field at 15 K (-258°C) using facilities at Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS).
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025

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