On Instagram, artist @charlieautomotiv created a set of images of what a Cybertruck made for the moon might look like. A moon rover from Tesla isn’t such a spaced-out idea when you consider that both Tesla and SpaceX are run by Elon Musk.
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After his notably less careful early statements about the coronavirus pandemic, Elon Musk is now increasingly gearing Tesla’s EV production resources to help. Measures include manufacturing of medical equipment at SpaceX.
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After BYD had recently turned into one of the biggest makers of medical face masks and disinfections in China, Tesla, General Motors and Ford now offered to convert their production in the USA to manufacture urgently needed medical equipment such as respirators.
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Elon Musk’s private space-faring company SpaceX is now using Tesla Model X’s to ferry NASA astronauts to their respective shuttles on the way to the International Space Station ISS. This will replace the shiny Astro van NASA has used for decades.
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Real news first: SpaceX has mastered the art of shooting and landing rockets. Big business awaits the Falcon Heavy. Now the curious news. To prove their case, they shot a Tesla Roadster into space with an astronaut dummy on board.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk draws attention with another crazy announcement: For the first flight of Space X’s rocket Falcon Heavy in early-2018, he wants to use its own Tesla Roadster as payload.
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If your dream of going to space will not come true within your lifetime, Elysium Space provides a remedy. Helped by SpaceX, the Californian start-up will shoot your ashes into space so you literally return as a shooting star. A moon funeral is also possible but do not expect visitors at your grave.
teslarati.com
Reading tip I: Musk goes Mars, or at least plans to send an unmanned space craft by SpaceX there by 2018. The mission is designed to probe what it would take to send human colonisers there in the future.
theguardian.com, wired.com
Reading tip II: The real range of the electric Golf exceeds the EPA rating, a six month trial suggests. Bengt Halvorson found the 83-mile conservative and was able to drive much longer on most days.
greencarreports.com
Reading tip I: Beam it down, Elon! The internet that is, as Musk’s SpaceX company has just asked the US federal government to start testing its mini-satellites designed to deliver internet from space. The plans call for 4,000 cheap satellites that would send high-speed Internet signals to every region.
washingtonpost.com
Reading tip II: Peter Walker looks at a new trend emerging in Great Britain: deliveries with cargo bikes, which are often enough electric as they carry loads of up to 200 kilos on the last miles.
theguardian.com
A total of 4.9 billion dollars is what the Los Angeles Times says Elon Musk received in government support for his companies Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX. The incentives included grants, tax breaks, discounted loans as well as tax credits and rebates to buyers of solar panels and electric cars.
latimes.com
Video tip: The Solar Impulse 2 is getting ready for its trip around the world. It was undergoing tests at the Abu Dhabi Airport, including being turned on for the first time. The official flying route has also been made public, with take-off scheduled for the end of next month.
youtube.com via cleantechnica.com
Reading tip: Media report that Google wants to invest up to one billion dollars in Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. A possible reason for the collaboration could be that Musk and Google both want to make the internet available in even remote areas via small satellites.
wsj.com, businessinsider.com
