Twitter could run out of options and need to find a so-called white knight, a friendly buyer that it views as more suitable than the electric-car mogul.
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SpaceX Mars City: Why, when, and how Elon Musk wants to build his ambitious plan
Musk plans to build a self-sustaining city on Mars.
Here is what you need to know about Musk’s mission.
What is the Mars city?
Musk plans to build a full-size city on the surface of Mars. This would be a city open to regular people, not just scientists and researchers.
People interested in moving to Mars could pay for their flight with a loan. Once there, people would be able to pay off the loan by working in anything from iron foundries to pizzerias. Musk declared at a 2016 conference that there would be labor shortages for a long time.
Tesla bull predicts between 5 to 10 new gigafactories in the next two years
After a wild display of lights, music and futuristic technology, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk kicked off the grand opening of the company’s new Texas gigafactory on Thursday.
The Austin plant — Tesla’s fourth globally — will manufacture the Model Y SUV and, next year, the highly-anticipated Cybertruck.
Tesla bull Kevin Paffrath predicts this is only the beginning electric-vehicle maker.
Elon Musk has a ‘very human side to him,’ according to a NASA astronaut who completed a SpaceX mission
NASA astronaut Doug Hurley reminisced on what it was like working with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk before he flew on a historic flight to space and back in 2020.
In an interview with Fox News, Hurley spoke about his impressions of Musk, the billionaire space race, and a new Netflix documentary, “Return to Space” which follows Hurley’s journey and that of fellow astronaut Bob Behnken as they embarked on the first human SpaceX mission to the International Space Station.
In May 2020, Musk and SpaceX made history after the company successfully launched two astronauts into space aboard a Crew Dragon spaceship. Shortly after, the astronauts’ ship docked at the International Space Station.
Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of Twitter, paying $3 billion for his shares
The prolific Twitter user knows from experience what might be the best for the social media platform.
Elon Musk bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares on March 14, amounting to a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing reveals.
The stake makes Elon Musk one of Twitter’s largest shareholders as he now owns more than four times Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s holding of 2.25 percent, according to the BBC.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who has gotten into trouble over his behavior on Twitter in the past, recently tweeted about his belief that the social media platform is failing to rigorously adhere to free speech principles.
Elon Musk says Tesla may have to get into the lithium business because costs are so ‘insane’
Elon Musk tweeted Tesla may get into the lithium mining and refining business directly and at scale because the cost of the metal, a key component in manufacturing batteries, has gotten so high.
“Price of lithium has gone to insane levels,” Musk tweeted. “There is no shortage of the element itself, as lithium is almost everywhere on Earth, but pace of extraction/refinement is slow.”
The Tesla and SpaceX tech boss was responding to a tweet showing the average price of lithium per tonne in the last two decades, which showed a massive increase in prices since 2021. According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the cost of the metal has gone up more than 480% in the last year.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Concept to Become a Reality with Alberta’s TransPod
TransPod has received funding for a high-speed link between Alberta’s two largest cities. Travel between destinations will take 20 minutes.
Richard Branson could be the first billionaire to fly on Elon Musk’s Starship
It would signify new levels of space baron cooperation. It’s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX.
It’s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX.
And, as a fellow space baron to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it’s hard to blame him — since Musk’s aerospace firm is edging closer to attempting its first orbital flight with a fully stacked Starship vehicle — and a launch date fast approaching. This will be a huge step for Musk’s ambitions to build, operate, and land a new spaceship on the surface of Mars, putting humans on the Red Planet.
Much testing is needed before the big jump can happen. And, having bested Jeff Bezos in repeatedly contested contracts with NASA to build the Human Landing System for the Artemis program, Musk has assumed a rapidly widening lead ahead of his two space baron rivals, Blue Origin CEO Bezos and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson.