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Jul 4
2020

Elon Musk accepts Oklahoma Gov. invite, visits site of proposed Tesla factory in Tulsa

On Friday afternoon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Director of Policy and Government Affairs Craig Hulse landed in Tulsa, OK, for a meeting with local officials. Musk’s trip comes amidst Tesla’s highly anticipated announcement about the site of the Cybertruck Gigafactory, the electric car maker’s upcoming manufacturing plant for its unique all-electric pickup.

Musk and Hulse were welcomed by Gov. Kevin Stitt and Secretary of Commerce Sean Kouplen, as well as the property owner of a plot of land that the city is offering to the electric car maker. Images shared by the Gov. Stitt show Musk and local officials conversing in the middle of a massive plot of land. The meetup seemed to be private and simple, though the governor highlighted that he still believes that Tulsa is the perfect place for Tesla’s next vehicle production plant.

Jul 2
2020

Tesla chief Elon Musk teams up with Covid-19 player CureVac to build ‘RNA microfactories’

Thank you my hero.

Elon Musk has joined the global tech crusade now underway to revolutionize vaccine manufacturing — now aimed at delivering billions of doses of a new mRNA vaccine to fight Covid-19. And he’s cutting right to the front.

In a late-night tweet Wednesday, the Tesla chief announced:

Tesla, as a side project, is building RNA microfactories for CureVac & possibly others.

Jul 2
2020

Tesla to Build Mobile RNA Microfactories for CureVac’s COVID-19 Vaccine

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Tesla, the electric car company founded and run by Elon Musk, is building mobile molecular printers to assist Germany’s CureVac in manufacturing its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Musk tweeted the information on Wednesday, July 1.

The “printers” are portable, automated messenger RNA (mRNA) production units, which Musk referred to as “RNA microfactories.”

Jul 1
2020

SpaceX: why Elon Musk is saying ‘your GPS just got slightly better’

The space-faring firm has completed its latest launch, and it means big things for the phone in your pocket.

Jul 1
2020

Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, Disney and Coke

Elon Musk’s electric car business exceeds the value of almost every company in the S&P 500, including some iconic American companies.

Shares of Tesla (TSLA) were up 4% in midday trading Wednesday to a new record high of above $1,120 a share. At that price, Tesla’s market cap is nearly $210 billion.

Jul 1
2020

Welcome to Cloud City: The case for going to Venus, not Mars

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I know Elon Musk believes Mars is the promised land that we should try to move humans to but what about Venus?

A growing group of scientists want to float above our sister planet before we conquer the red one.

Jun 30
2020

Tesla and the science behind the next-generation, lower-cost, ‘million-mile’ electric-car battery

Elon Musk is often referred to as the real-life Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, and in the new quest to engineer an electric vehicle battery that lasts up to 1 million miles, iron may play the role of hero.

Jun 29
2020

Elon Musk says he sympathizes with ‘anti-globalization people’ because the online world is too interconnected and could lead to a ‘mind virus’

He uses a code word for racist, because he is alt right.

Elon Musk said we need “some kind of mind viral immunity” to protect against the interconnected meme sphere.

Jun 29
2020

Graze’s solar-powered, self-driving mower is a view of Elon Musk’s fully-autonomous future

Tesla’s Autonomy Day in April 2019 gave supporters of the company a look into Elon Musk’s vision of a fully-autonomous future. While the event featured the company’s strategies for the future as it prepares to “free investors from the tyranny of having to drive their own cars,” the $100 billion agriculture sector is also looking into sustainable, self-driving technologies that would revolutionize the industry.

Santa Monica, California-based lawn and landscaping startup Graze is developing a solar-powered, fully-autonomous lawn mower that requires no human interaction. The battery-operated, fully-autonomous mower is being developed by Graze CEO John Vay who has an extensive background in landscaping, and CTO Roman Flores whose past employers include NASA and the Caltech Curiosity Mars Rover Team. The two minds are developing the product in an attempt to revolutionize commercial agriculture as we know it.

Jun 28
2020

Happy birthday to the World most important Entrepreneur ( Olorogun Elon Musk)

Happy birthday to the World most important Entrepreneur (Olorogun Elon Musk). We at the Ogba Educational Clinic and Artificial intelligence Hub celebrate and wish to immortalize you by Setting up a club after you (The Elon Musk Club). This is in line with our vision to create small Elon’s that would eventually outdo you from Africa.