Tesla CEO announced on Friday the Model 3 had over half a million advance reservations, according to Reuters. During the event at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory, Musk showed off the $35,000 base vehicle with a range of 220 miles (350 ...
Read More »Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets “Approval” To Build Interstate Underground Hyperloop
Elon Musk tweeted Thursday that his Boring Company received permission from the US government to build Hyperloop transit network connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C., with stops connecting each city center, and a dozen more entry or exit ...
Read More »Tesla Driver Changes Claim, Says Autopilot Not Responsible For Crash
According to CBS News, David Clark, 58 initially told the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office on Monday that the Autopilot software was responsible for a crash Saturday evening in Hawick, Minnesota. Clark initially told deputies that when he engaged the Autopilot ...
Read More »Elon Musk Shows First Tesla Model 3 Production Unit
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to confirm the production of “Unit 1” of Model 3 on Saturday night. According to reports, it was Ira Ehrenpreis, an investor of Tesla, who should have received this first car. But the ...
Read More »Tesla To Build World’s Largest Energy Storage in Australia
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that his company is building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Australia to store energy from the wind farms. According to Musk, the 129-megawatt battery will be able to store energy generated by the ...
Read More »Elon Musk has officially started digging a tunnel under Los Angeles
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX said on Twitter on Wednesday that his tunnel-boring machine, dubbed Godot, had begun digging under Los Angeles, according to Business Insider. Musk officially launched his tunnel company, aptly named The Boring Company, in April. ...
Read More »New Tesla Model 3 photos leaked
The Tesla engineer driving the test vehicle didn’t seem to mind photos being taken and even mentioned that they were driving the vehicle home for the night, Teslarati reports. The Model 3 was seen with full autopilot hardware and this ...
Read More »SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 rocket for the second time, according to The Verge. The rocket’s first stage — the 14-story-tall core that houses the fuel and the rocket’s main engines — touched down on ...
Read More »SpaceX successfully launched Dragon spacecraft to International Space Station – video
For today’s launch, the craft was filled with nearly 6,000 pounds of cargo including supplies, equipment, special telescopes to study neutron stars, mice, and even thousands of fruit flies. The craft launched from the historic Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad ...
Read More »Elon Musk to Trump: You quit Paris, so I quit you
“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said Thursday on Twitter, shortly after the US president announced from the Rose Garden that he would begin the process of ...
Read More »Watch Live SpaceX Launching 1st Reused Dragon Spacecraft
Seated atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon will lift off from the historic Pad 39-A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:55 p.m. EDT (2155 GMT), beginning its three-day journey to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, ...
Read More »SpaceX Rocket set for historic launch Thursday
The Falcon 9 is all set for a historic Thursday (June 1) launch from KSC’s famous Pad 39A that will send a used spacecraft skyward — a rare feat accomplished by just a few vehicles, including the Air Force’s robotic ...
Read More »Elon Musk’s Boring Company reveals ‘underground buses’ for tunnel network
Elon Musk’s ‘Boring Company’ plan to build a network of tunnels under major cities – but so far has only shown car owners using them. Now, the firm has revealed its own vehicle – an underground electric bus, Joinfo.com reports ...
Read More »SpaceX’s sixth successful launch in 2017 puts Elon Musk’s company on pace to beat its rivals
The Inmarsat-owned satellite, built by Boeing, was originally scheduled to fly on a larger rocket, the Falcon Heavy, that SpaceX hopes to debut later this year, according to Quartz. Flying the big bird on a smaller rocket required some sacrifices ...
Read More »Tesla launches solar roof tiles pre-order today
CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company will be accepting orders for the tiles from later this afternoon. Although only two of the four possible tile styles are being made available at this point, according to TechCrunch. Responding to a ...
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