Elon Musk likes to show off his toys, and the latest may (or may not) be a component of his new tunnel boring efforts designed to defeat the scourge of Los Angeles traffic. On Friday, amid widespread criticism related to his advisory connections to the Trump administration, Musk showed that he was nevertheless undeterred in…
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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 may consolidate SpaceX for a while
Yesterday, Elon Musk surprised a lot of people when he announced that Tesla (TSLA) has made an offer to acquire SolarCity (SCTY). The entrepreneur is the largest individual shareholder of both companies – he owns about 21% of Tesla and 22% of SolarCity. Some Tesla shareholders are already calling the deal a “bailout” of SolarCity, especially…
Hyperloop-One co-founder and CTO leaves company
One of the start-ups trying to make Elon Musk’s Hyperloop a reality just lost its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Hyperloop One, a start-up competing with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to release the first Hyperloop, confirmed to Tech Insider that co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan is no longer with the company. “Co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan has decided to…
VLADIMIR PUTIN IMAGINES HYPERLOOP SILK ROAD
Russia may become the first country to introduce a Hyperloop network, after officials signed a memorandum of understanding to build the transonic transport system in Moscow. The 760 mph vacuum tube transportation—first envisioned by U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2013—has also attracted the interest of Vladimir Putin, with reports suggesting the Russian president may be…
How Elon Musk Started
Elon Musk is now Earth’s most future-oriented person. How did such a person come to be? In a hundred years, when most people reading this and the person writing this are long gone, Musk’s cars and rockets will still be circling the Earth and the skies. How can such a person get started against all…
Is this the year Elon Musk’s SpaceX fortunes will lift off?
By most measures, SpaceX has enjoyed a banner 2016. In the first half of this year, the company took critical steps toward proving it can reliably retrieve and reuse its first-stage rocket boosters, successfully landing rockets on a floating drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean three separate times. It broke a monopoly one of its…