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Feb 23, 2020
Tesla Model 3 gets 350-mile in new ‘long range mode’ test
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
CEO Elon Musk congratulated the Tesla team after the Model 3 got 350 miles of range on a single charge in a new test on range mode.
Officially, Tesla Model 3 Long Range had a range of 310 miles on a single charge, but Tesla has found some optimizations in recent months – leading to an increase of EPA-rated range to 322 miles.
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Feb 23, 2020
Elon Musk shares the science fiction book series that inspired him to start SpaceX
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability
As a teenage boy, Elon Musk felt a “personal obligation” for the fate of mankind, according to the book “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance.
Musk’s love of books and the lessons he took from them inspired him to create “cleaner energy technology or [build] spaceships to extend the human species’s reach” in the future, according to Vance.
One set of those books Musk still recommends today: the seven-book “Foundation” science fiction series by scientist and author Isaac Asimov.
Feb 17, 2020
How billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went from getting bullied as a child to becoming one of the most successful and provocative men in tech
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel, sustainability
It seems like there’s nothing Elon Musk can’t do.
As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink, Musk seems to be everywhere all at once, pushing all kinds of futuristic technologies. He’s said he won’t be happy until we’ve escaped Earth and colonized Mars.
Between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, and the billions he’s made along the way, Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark — which is why he served as an inspiration for Marvel’s 2008 “Iron Man” film.
Feb 15, 2020
Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett agree: Now is the best time to be alive
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: Elon Musk
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk says if people are negative about the present, then they aren’t reading enough history. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett also agree this is the best time to be alive.
Feb 15, 2020
Tesla vehicles confirmed to be used in Elon Musk’s Boring Company Las Vegas Loop, watch breakthrough in real time
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Tesla vehicles are now confirmed to be used in Elon Musk’s Boring Company Loop project to create an electric people mover at Las Vegas’ massive convention center.
You can watch them break through the first tunnel in real time.
Feb 8, 2020
Elon Musk Says He’s About to Deliver the Future of High-Speed Internet
Posted by Tracy R. Atkins in categories: Elon Musk, internet
Feb 6, 2020
Elon Musk’s mind-reading technology could be about to take a big leap forward
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience
The tech entrepreneur announced an “awesome” update to his neurotechnology company’s work to connect brains to computers.
Feb 6, 2020
Neuralink: Elon Musk teases ‘awesome’ advancements will be revealed soon
Posted by Mario Acosta in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience
Feb 3, 2020
Elon Musk is recruiting for Tesla: I ‘don’t care if you even graduated high school’
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: education, Elon Musk, habitats, robotics/AI
Elon Musk is recruiting for his AI team at Tesla, and he says education is “irrelevant.” The team members will report “directly” to Musk and “meet/email/text” with Musk “almost every day.” Musk will also throw a “super fun” party at his house with the Tesla artificial intelligence and autopilot teams.
