Elon Musk has a lot going on, meaning he’ll probably never stay in one place long enough for you to get a whiff of him. If that daunting realization frightens you, a couple of Elon Musk fans who also aren’t exactly sure what the guy smells like took an educated guess and made it into an air freshener.
Following a report from the Wall Street Journal last week claiming that major elements of the Tesla Model 3 production line were being carried out by hand while the machinery meant to be doing it was still being sorted out, Elon Musk posted a video of the production line on Sunday, seemingly in response to the report.
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Elon Musk, your friendly neighborhood billionaire, has said Tesla has the ability to remake Puerto Rico’s grid if the government is interested. And, well, it sounds like they’re very interested.
The Tesla Model 3 may be off to a slower-than-expected production launch, but early models for the car are getting delivered and people are already discovering all sorts of quirks. Some are cool, and some are unfortunate.
Last week, the always-exciting Elon Musk announced a plan to launch soft, moist human passengers in his new planned rockets to fly on suborbital trips from city to city, allowing travel between almost any major city on Earth in under an hour. It’s a fascinating idea, but not a new one. In fact, Ronald Reagan mentioned…
By now, you may have heard that Elon Musk has come up with yet another wondrous glimpse into the very near (?) future that he will build for us. The SpaceX CEO told attendees of the International Astronautical Congress in Australia earlier this week that he was simplifying his rocket production by focusing on one…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was on Twitter again, this time calling out Daimler following the company’s announcement that it would invest $1 billion in its Alabama plant to manufacture its upcoming electric vehicles. Musk tweeted that Daimler should invest much more, and today it responded directly to him by saying it would.…
Elon Musk has been sitting on a trove of spectacular fail videos from the SpaceX archives, and on August 31st he promised to release a blooper reel with “some epic explosion footage.” This morning, he made good on that promise. Now you can watch many millions of dollars go kaboom in just over two minutes.
They’ve placed one of the cars inside the tunnel now. The only thing stopping them is a lot of government permits. Like, seriously, a lot. So much. But now the car fits.
Gary is a snail who lives in a pineapple, balanced precariously on a wall overlooking a deep trench. He is trapped there, waiting for the day when he is forced to race against a giant machine.
Tesla’s referral program has proven to be one of the company’s most effective tools for selling cars. By rewarding referrals with event invites, private tours, and car upgrades, the company has fueled the cult of Tesla and turned Tesla drivers into an army of brand ambassadors.
SpaceX works in mysterious ways, but today, Elon Musk decided to gift fans with the first-ever look at SpaceX’s space suits. In just a few hours, fans have collectively lost their chill, and it’s not entirely unwarranted: the white-and-black aesthetic is sleek and sophisticated, like if Daft Punk went to Wimbledon.
Uber has problems. It doesn’t actually make money, it’s getting sued over alleged tech theft from Google, it’s plagued with a garbage culture and saw the departure of its founder and CEO bro Travis Kalanick this summer. But one early angel Uber investor has a (bad) idea to save things: merge with Tesla! That will do…
Elon Musk, still not yet content to leave our robot-ridden Earth for a safer life on his true home planet of Mars, knows what the future holds. We are barreling toward a future of the robots killing us all, and Musk wants to stop it. So, he and 116 other tech experts are calling for a ban on autonomous weapons—soon.
Elon Musk, hellbent on progressing the technological feats of humankind including artificial intelligence, would like you to know that artificial intelligence poses a greater threat to your fragile existence than threat-of-the-week North Korea.
Elon Musk is a busy billionaire who you might imagine has a lot of people working for him to keep all of his various projects afloat, but Business Insider brought up an anecdote from a biography of Musk today about how he once fired his long-time assistant for asking for a raise. (Update: Elon Musk has denied the…
Guys. GUYS. Hollywood/Silicon Valley’s hottest couple has split. They’re done. Kaput. The end. Shit.
