[ad_1] Breakthrough! https://t.co/vJ7Jmz2nNb — The Boring Company (@boringcompany) February 14, 2020 Boring’s crew spent three months digging the nearly mile-long tunnel 40 feet underground. LVCVA says the project is scheduled to debut in January 2021 — who knows, the system might even be ready by the time CES 2021 rolls around. The electric vehicles tasked […]
Category: Elon Musk
This is the production version of Tesla’s Model Y
[ad_1] We first met the prototype Model Y crossover last year, and this week during the company’s earnings call, Elon Musk said deliveries of the vehicle will start in March. In the documents released (PDF), Tesla also showed off this picture of the car’s production version, along with a few shots of the production line. […]
Elon Musk drops a surprise EDM track on SoundCloud
[ad_1] Musk is clearly in a good mood with Tesla stock way up, the Model Y SUV coming earlier than expected, and SpaceX on track to possibly launch astronauts soon. He teased the song on Twitter before releasing it, calling himself ‘E “D” M’ and showing off the fancy-looking studio (complete with N64 controllers) where […]
Elon Musk expects SpaceX’s first crewed mission between April and June
[ad_1] Now that SpaceX has completed Crew Dragon’s in-flight launch escape test, when can you expect a mission with humans aboard? At last, the company has a more specific answer than early 2020. Company chief Elon Musk told attendees at a post-test conference that the crewed mission to the International Space Station will likely take […]
SpaceX video shows a simulated Crew Dragon mission to the ISS
[ad_1] The two-minute clip shows flight crew boarding the capsule, countdown, take off and separation from the Falcon 9 rocket. There’s a patriotic shot of an American flag patch, dramatic music and a look back at Earth. The video shows the capsule attaching to the ISS, circling the planet a few times and then parachuting […]
The tech CEOs’ year of reckoning
[ad_1] We were blind, and our eyes were opened by zeros and ones. The tech utopia was at hand, and we should just sit back and not ask too many hard questions. Then things went sideways. Social networks that were the catalyst of the Arab Spring were suddenly being used by nation-states, shit posters and […]
Tesla will deliver its first Chinese-made Model 3 on December 30th
[ad_1] Tesla began construction on the plant this past January and started making vehicles there in October. The company told Reuters it plans to manufacture approximately 250,000 cars per year at Gigafactory 3 once it ramps up production. In addition to the Model 3, it also plans to make Model Y crossovers at the plant. […]
YouTubers have raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees
[ad_1] YouTubers created videos about trees to promote TeamTrees, leading over 500,000 viewers to donate to the cause. While most donations were about $5, Elon Musk donated $1 million. He even changed his Twitter handle to @Treelon to draw attention to TeamTrees. The Arbor Day Foundation will begin planting the trees next month and will […]
Musk: Holiday Tesla update adds ‘Stardew Valley,’ self-driving preview
[ad_1] It’s been a few months since Tesla’s 10.0 update brought Cuphead, Netflix and YouTube to some of its in-car systems, and it appears more options are around the corner. Elon Musk tweeted tonight that a “holiday” update will add farming RPG Stardew Valley as a playable game, and include a Full Self-Driving “sneak preview,” […]
Watch SpaceX try to catch both halves of a Falcon 9 nose cone at 7:10PM ET
[ad_1] If you’ve seen footage of a rocket launch, you’ll have some sense of all the moving parts involved with trying to recover a nose cone — even if you don’t know the name of the components. The nose cone of a rocket is made up of two halves, called the payload fairing. These shield […]