Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in “3 to 4 years.” Several years ago, Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, said that he had a design for electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) a…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been talking about the electric plane for a long time. He even said he has an electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft project, though he never went into details about plans to launch it into production.
Musk said that in order for his design to work, it is necessary to increase the specific energy of the batteries. He calculated that lithium-ion batteries would need to reach an energy density of 400 Wh / kg for the batteries to outperform kerosene (Jet A) and for his electric plane to be viable.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in “3 to 4 years.”
Elon Musk’s Neuralink will have an event on August 28 to update the public on the company’s progress since last year’s launch.
According to a Teslarati, Musk posted some updates in July regarding the advising about the event of the brain-machine interface company. On July 9, he tweeted that a progress update will happen on August 28. The following day, he posted: “AI symbiosis while u wait.” The event is expected to have a live stream on social media platforms.
Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has an event scheduled for later this week to update the public on its progress since last year’s presentation. While the agenda is speculative for the most part, one expectation is a live demonstration of neuron activity.
“Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix in the matrix,” Musk tweeted at the end of July.
He also revealed a few other clues about the early fall announcement at the beginning of the year. “Wait until you see the next version vs what was presented last year. It’s *awesome*,” he wrote in February. “The profound impact of high bandwidth, high precision neural interfaces is underappreciated. Neuralink may have this in a human as soon as this year. Just needs to be unequivocally better than Utah Array, which is already in some humans & has severe drawbacks.”
Tesla vehicles are equipped with extrernal speakers.
The main function is to output a pedestrian warning sound, which has become required for electric vehicles in many markets due to the fact that they are quiet at low speeds.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been playing around with ideas on how to release other features that take advantage of the fact that the vehicles are now equipped with external speakers.
SpaceX, the Elon Musk-led company that recently became the first business in history to send astronauts into Earth’s orbit, is parlaying its successes into big money.
A leading expert in socially responsible technology innovation Dr Andrew Maynard told us “I think Musk’s overreaching and he probably knows it.
”That said, Elon Musk has got a track record of doing things that other people said can’t be done. So I think that this is going to be an interesting space because of that… [But] I think we’re a long way from understanding how this works.
”Even with Elon Musk’s system you have around ten thousand electrodes. There are billions of neurons in your brain. It’s a needle in a haystack”.
First and foremost, I would likd to reiterate that Elon Musk is not motivated by money. Elon Musk uses his wealth to make a difference to mankind. Yes he makes billions (and deservedly) but he invests his billions for other projects too. From Tesla to Neuralink; from Starlink to The Boring Company. And for me the ever exciting SpaceX. My only wish is I live long enough to witness his many inventions and projects.
Four months ago when I did the video below and predicted that Elon Musk would be the World’s First Trillionaire, most people laughed and ridiculed the video especially as at that time Elon was only the 35th Richest Man in the World with a net worth of around the $30 Billion mark.
Fast forward four months later, Elon has added another £57.2 Billion to his net worth. And from 35th to 4th richest person in the world.
Imagine being the world’s first Trillionaire overcoming Jeff Bezos. What further projects will Elon do to advance the development of mankind. I for one, can’t wait.
Elon Musk has led Tesla to successfully pioneered the electric car. Will Tesla also propel Elon Musk as a potential candidate for the position of the world’s first trillionaire.
It might seem like a stretch, with Elon Musk’s current net worth of $29.6 billion and so many competitors ahead of him, but it’s for the future potential of his countless projects that some believe he has a fighting chance at taking the title.
If Tesla continued to grow rapidly, how much would it have to grow for Elon to have a shot at the trillion dollar mark? That question brings us to his 2018 compensation plan. When the details of the new payment plan got out to the media, it caused a bit of a stir. It was called the largest executive compensation deal in history and thought to be able to make him the richest man on the planet. But not without reaching a couple of insane milestones first. Under the plan, Elon would have to raise Tesla’s value to $100 billion first, with each milestone being $50 billion higher – all the way up to $650 billion. This would mean increasing the company’s value 11-fold, making Tesla into one of the five biggest US companies – and all of this by 2028. Even though Tesla recently did reach over $100 billion before dropping slightly below it, the plan can still be considered ridiculously ambitious. But even if it were realised and Tesla reached the $650 billion mark, with Elon Musk’s stake then amounting to 28.3% in best case scenario, his net worth would only reach $184 billion. This could still easily make him the richest man in the world, but far below a trillion dollars in net worth.
So, the only way that it would be even possible for Elon to reach that number would be for not only Tesla, but all of his other ventures to do extremely well.
