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However, it seems like Instagram, which Musk uses heavily to share photos of Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company, is still OK for now.

Brian Acton, co-founder of the now - Facebook - owned messaging service WhatsApp (and no friend of Facebook), endorsed Musk's digital tirade with the hashtag #DeleteFacebook, to which Musk responded, «What's Facebook?»

That brings us to the last point of the master plan, in which Musk states that your Tesla could make money for you when you're not using it, by employing its self - driving capabilities to join a «Tesla shared fleet» that others could rent on demand, as opposed to just being parked 90 % of the time, which is what most cars do.

The only concession to weirdness and egotism are the optional rear - facing third - row seats, which Musk wanted so he could ferry around his many children.

The climate - control system also has three layers of activated carbon, which Musk said can make the interior air as clean as «a hospital operating room.»

There's much about the Model S, which Musk himself refers to as «Tesla's Macintosh,» that has an innovative, Apple flavor.

Perhaps it's the upcoming Model Y, which Musk said will likely enter production in early 2020.

(We understand that Musk also talked with Trump about other issues, including the need for a smart grid — the kind of infrastructure that would give a boost to the solar energy business, in which Musk is a leader via his investments in the company Solar City.)

The rocket, which Musk calls the BFR — the first and last letters stand for «big» and «rocket» — is smaller than the one he announced at the same event last year, carrying 150 tonnes compared to the previous design's 300.

But an amazing new video from the company, which Musk has touted as a mere «blooper reel,» shows just how hard it is to launch rockets into space and land them safely again.

The Tesla Motors and SolarCity merger, which Musk said will create a company that will cater to all consumer needs for clean energy and green cars, is being touted as the biggest solar power deal to date.

Among the «many smaller islands» to which Musk is referring is the island of Ta'u in American Samoa.

SolarCity, which Musk had sold as Tesla's Next Big Thing just a few months earlier, barely comes up on the 80 - minute call, garnering just two brief questions.

Tesla's semi-truck will also be equipped with Enhanced Autopilot which Musk notes will provide safety by automatically pulling over and stopping when truckers are in danger.

The glass windshield on the Semi is thermonuclear resistant glass, which Musk says is a big deal because semi-trucks often have their windshields crack twice a year (which renders the truck undrivable).

Somehow, over the next few months, teams at SolarCity, Tesla, and 3M (which makes solar films that can be used for solar glass tiles) managed to put together a glass - tile solar roof demo, which Musk unveiled on October 28 at an event at Universal Studios» back lot in Los Angeles, on an old residential set used in Desperate Housewives.

The bulk of the session, in which Musk shared the stage with Y Combinator head Sam Altman, was far - ranging and bizarre, twisting from nuclear fusion versus fission to Mars colonization.

Tesla also wants to bring solar energy storage in our homes, and the company did so by releasing the Powerwall 2, which Musk is sure could solve Australia's energy problems.

Musk explained that in a design meant to dampen engine noise, Tesla workers were putting «fiberglass mats» — which Musk called «basically fluff,» presumably fiberglass insulation on the battery packs inside the cars.

To which Musk replied, «Wearing anything at all is just a conspiracy by the capitalist running dogs of Big Underwear.»

The announcement comes a week after Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, at which Musk — a billionaire who is also CEO at private space exploration company SpaceX — said he plans to stay on as Tesla's CEO for at least another four or five years.

But Tesla remains far from making China its biggest market, which Musk had predicted could someday happen.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk went decidedly low - brow in an exchange with transportation experts on Friday, following reports of comments in which Musk called public transport a «pain in the ass» and suggested the subway was a great place to bump into a murderer.

The epic views lasted until the car's battery died, which Musk had warned was likely to happen 12 hours after launch.

Of course you can imagine one of the world's most storied billionaires listening to Bocelli, which Musk likely does while enjoying fine Scotch and buffing his collection of futuristic concept cars with only the finest cashmere scarves.

The company is also working to strike a deal with a major car manufacturer (which Musk declines to name) to become a supplier of chassis and drive trains for a mass - market electric vehicle.

The company, which Musk says will probably be the highest returning of his three investments, already employs some 180 in offices in Berkeley, Foster City, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento, and averages 90 installations a month.

In March, SpaceX, into which Musk has poured $ 100 million, launched a rocket 180 miles above Earth.

Tesla's use of robots to assemble Model 3s has led to more complexity and delays, which Musk acknowledged last month.

A flight will cost less than the initial Falcon 1 flights, which Musk pegged in the $ 5 to $ 6 million range.

Not exact matches

Please get of [sic] all large meetings, unless you're certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short,» Musk wrote.

The focus of Musk's new presentation, which updates a 2016 talk he gave at the International Astronautical Congress, was the «Big F — ing Rocket,» or BFR.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

When Musk was a child, he would often gaze into the distance while his parents were speaking to him, which led them to believe that he might be hard of hearing.

Tesla plans to reveal an electric commercial truck on Thursday night, which CEO Elon Musk said will «blow your mind out of your skull and into an alternate dimension.»

As Electrek reports, in the letter Musk confirmed that Model 3 production had reached 2,000 per week, which is double that attained in January.

Others have been waiting for the short - range rear - wheel - drive version of the Model 3 which CEO Elon Musk promised for a base price of $ 35,000.

Another big part of why Musk, Einstein and Jobs were able to be such original thinkers is because they had a sense of «separateness» — a feeling of being different or disconnected from the crowd, which freed them to reject the conventional wisdom and assumptions that constrained others.

It would be energy efficient, maybe even self - powering with help from solar panels, which would keep costs well below an airline ticket, Musk told PandoDaily Editor - in - Chief Sarah Lacy in a recorded interview.

Musk is the founder of OpenAI, which is a non-profit promoting responsible development of artificial intelligence through research and an emphasis on ethics.

As such, he estimates it would take at least 25 years to develop the technology to build and land a ship of the size that Musk is proposing, which would place a manned trip to Mars sometime in the 2040s.

One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

The scene, which takes place in a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving, features Musk washing dishes.

Its implementation comes on the heels of a March vow from CEO Elon Musk, in which he said Tesla could build and begin operating the system within 100 days from the signature of a contract — or else it would be free.

SpaceX is now a 5,000 - person company, which would make personally screening every candidate nearly impossible, but Musk interviewed every candidate himself until fairly recently.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Given the conversations swirling this week about AI, and Elon Musk's fear of it, and Steve Mnuchin's dismissal of it (which kicked the AI hype machine into overdrive), and the trucking industry's cautious embrace of it, I asked Felicis partner Wesley Chan whether this is another company designed to displace blue - collar jobs.

Musk has seen success of the two - stage rocket Falcon 9, which completed nine launches and landings, and earlier this year a rocket finish a second successful mission.

«In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see whether she was critical to his success,» reports BI's Shana Lebowitz.

Just ask electric vehicle producer Tesla Motors, which until now has basked in the glow cast by its founder, technology Midas Elon Musk.