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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spacesuit , dubbed "Starman", occupies the driver's seat.
Back in 2019, Elon Musk made an astonishing claim for Tesla vehicles. Tesla cars, he said, would go up in value, not down, after purchase. The reason for that is Tesla’s full self-driving ...
Austin-based Tesla has released its delivery numbers for 2023, meeting Elon Musk's most recent prediction of producing 1.8 million vehicles. Tesla delivered a record number of vehicles in 2023 ...
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In February 2024, Elon Musk posted on X that the production version of the Roadster would be unveiled in late 2024; deliveries would begin in early 2025; the car would be able accelerate to 60 mph in under 1 second; [39] and steer-by-wire similar to the Cybertruck would be included. [40]
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
By January 2009, Tesla had raised US$187 million and delivered 147 cars. Musk had contributed US$70 million of his own money to the company. [27] On May 19, 2009, Germany's Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz, acquired an equity stake of less than 10% of Tesla for a reported US$50 million. [30] According to Musk, the Daimler investment saved ...
Hybrid sales have been on a tear in 2023, jumping 48% in the first three quarters compared to the same year-ago period, the Wall Street Journal reported. Last year, hybrid sales dropped about 6% ...