Elon Musk pulled off a Steve Jobs-ian “one more thing” surprise at the unveiling of Tesla’s Semi model, rolling a new Roadster sports car out of the back of a big rig on stage. The Semi truck going into production in 2019 will boast 800km
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SpaceX will launch Zuma into space this week. No, not President Jacob Zuma. The company, headed by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk will fire a secretive payload into low-earth orbit on Wednesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched its 14th Falcon 9 rocket of the year, bringing the company a step closer to the 20 to 24 total missions it’s targeted for 2017. The pre-dawn launch from Vandenberg Air
Here are two facts that defy logic: by the end of the year, electric car maker Tesla will have burned through more than US$10bn without ever having made 10c. Yet companies around the world are lining up to compete
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“He awoke – and wanted Mars.” That’s the first line of Philip K Dick’s classic novella, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, the inspiration for the Total Recall films. I first came across the story in a sci-fi anthology back in high school
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who envisions a human colony on Mars, is planning to create a new, much larger rocket ship code named “BFR” capable of travelling anywhere on Earth in under an hour. If the concept
Tesla, a perennial target of short sellers, is “structurally unprofitable” with a “way too leveraged” capital structure, said famed investor Jim Chanos. “Three years ago, this company was supposed to be making money now,” Chanos
Dyson, best known as a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, hand driers and air filters, will build an electric car by 2020, founder James Dyson said on Tuesday. The company is investing £1bn to develop the car, plus the
Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to surround the Earth with thousands of Internet-beaming satellites is encountering turbulence from regulators concerned about interference with competing systems. SpaceX, the rocket start-up Musk