The Model 3 will use some of the same glass technology that Tesla is using for its solar roof shingles, CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday during a conference call regarding the financial details of a SolarCity merger, which shareholders will vote on November 17. Musk said that Tesla now has a special glass technology group…
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Tesla Will Be More Affordable Thanks to Elon Musk’s Plan
Tesla Will Be More Affordable Thanks to Elon Musk’s New Plan. Over the past few months, we’ve heard rumblings about Tesla’s efforts to eventually introduce a Tesla Network, effectively a ridesharing service operated by self-driving Tesla vehicles. During a Tesla event last week, where Tesla introduced hardware capable of supporting fully autonomous driving, the company…
Tesla’s Profit Reaches It’s Highest Jump In Its History
Tesla posted $2.15 billion in revenue in the third quarter and earned 72 cents per share. Tesla’s Profit, which has struggled to meet many of its own production deadlines in the past, made a quarterly profit for only the second time in the company’s history and beat Wall Street estimates. The stock rose as much…
Airplanes Maker Boeing says it will Go to Mars before SpaceX
Boeing says it will Go to Mars before SpaceX. Less than a week after SpaceX founder Elon Musk detailed his vision to get people to Mars, a rival aerospace company has intimated that it plans to beat Musk (and everyone else) to the punch. However, Musk is probably okay with that. Dennis Muilenburg, the CEO of…
Elon Musk’s Journey To Mars Sounds Alot Like ‘Elysium’ Movie
During his glitzy presentation, entitled “Making Humans an Interplanetary Species,” to the International Astronautical Congress, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk outlined his vision for humanity’s colonization of Mars (Elon Musk’s Journey To Mars). No surprise, his plan includes a perpetual fleet of SpaceX rockets, which he dubbed the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). SpaceX admittedly doesn’t have the…
Elon Musk Teases That Tesla Will Announce A New Product On 17 Oct.
Elon Musk Teases That Tesla will unveil something on Monday October 17. It’ll be a new product, he said in a Tweet on Sunday, which will be “unexpected by most,” and which will be separate from a Tesla/SolarCity product unveiling on the 28th. Tesla product unveiling on the 17th (unexpected by most), followed by Tesla/SolarCity…
Hyperloop One Dubai Program Is The Big Change
Hyperloop One is beginning a 12-week residency in Dubai as part of the Future Accelerators Program. The eventual goal of the project is to connect the entire region via hyperloop. The United Arab Emirates is officially signing off on Elon Musk’s brainchild, and on the hyperloop as the future of transportation. Where else would something…
Elon Musk Needs A Backup Plan in Case He Dies
Elon Musk Needs Backup Plan If He Dies in His Journey to Mars Elon Musk says that he would like to personally visit Mars one day, but he needs to make sure that money-grubbing investors wouldn’t change SpaceX’s mission just in case he dies during the flight. Musk, 45, gave a big presentation on his…
SpaceX Rockets to collect fuel from Mars on their Journey Back to Earth
SpaceX Rockets to collect fuel from Mars on their Journey Back to Earth Elon Musk wants SpaceX to send people to Mars and then bring them back to Earth on the same rocket they came in on. Nothing has ever been launched from Mars before, and Musk didn’t go into all that much detail about…
Mars rockets of SpaceX to be reused 1000 times or more
Mars rockets of SpaceX to be reused 1000 times SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the design for the giant rocket booster he wants to build in order to colonize Mars. It is part of what SpaceX is referring to as the “Mars Vehicle” — the rocket booster and the Mars spaceship combined — and…
The future of AI is in linking it to our brains according to Elon Musk
Following the accidental explosion at SpaceX on Sept. 1, company founder Elon Musk has been relatively quiet. But an interview posted this week gives us more insight into his thoughts on one of his favorite topics: artificial intelligence. Speaking with Y Combinator president Sam Altman, Musk addressed a number of topics while seated in front…
Tesla’s new vehicles will have Wi-Fi Hotspots
If your ideal for internet connectivity is “always on,” maybe you should consider a Tesla for your next ride. The exact date when the switch was made has not been disclosed, but Tesla vehicles built starting in the second quarter of 2016 should have Qualcomm Wi-Fi hot spot chips installed even if they’re not turned…