Tesla’s Battery Day is less than a month away, and there’s no lack of buzz about what might be revealed. CEO Elon Musk has shot down several attempts to discover subliminal messages within Tesla’s announcements and other relevant topics of discussion, practically reinforcing the fact that we, as a community, have no idea what will…
Elon Musk’s neurotech company, Neuralink, is developing ‘ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.’ He envisions a future where the Neuralink brain-chip can solve many brain-related problems, including curing memory loss, restoring hearing and eyesight, and also allowing paralyzed individuals to control artificial limbs (prosthetics) using their own thoughts. Not only does the…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has long spoken about the electric plane. He also said that he has a proposal for an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL), but he never went into details of plans to bring it into service. Musk said it’s important to increase the specific energy of the batteries in…
\n Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, is scheduled to hold an event later this week to update the public on its progress since the presentation last year. Although the agenda is largely speculative, one goal is a live demonstration of neuron activity. \n\n\n\n “Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix…
After chatting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk about the breadth, depth, and size of Tesla’s Autopilot team, we slipped into another matter, “the machine that builds the machine.” I think this may be Elon’s favorite Tesla-related phrase. (Though, the one about a non-autonomous car being like a horse must be up there, too.) It’s not just…
SpaceX raised $1.9 billion in equity this month during its latest funding round, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC filing details offering the aerospace firm to sell another $165 million in common stock, for a total of $2.07 billion. Bloomberg reports that 75 investors participated in this second…
CEO Elon Musk reiterated that SpaceX is still targeting a big rocket reuse goal that he initially set a few years ago for the company and announced that his Falcon rockets will eventually rise far beyond it. Musk has been talking publicly about reusable rockets for well over a decade but the first hard numbers…
\n Elon Musk recently defended elevator music and now he wants Tesla to build a new feature so that their cars can play elevator music through their external speakers and spread the joy of jazz around. \n\n\n\n Tesla vehicles have external speakers. The purpose is to give out a pedestrian warning sound, which has become…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is continuing to fuel our curiosity with new information about the supercar after sharing news that Tesla Roadster 2.0 will have rocket thrusters. On Twitter, Musk tweeted that the wheels of Roadster 2 will have only one center-nut. He explained in his next tweet that the nut would be relatively growing….
Elon Musk’s net worth is soaring in 2020, as Tesla’s surging stock price has roughly quadrupled since the start of the year. Musk owns about 20% of Tesla’s stock, a stake that’s worth more than $50 billion, according to research firm Wealth-X. Overall, Musk’s personal net worth is estimated to be at least $66.7 billion, according to Wealth-X, which…