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Elon Musk is a South African-born businessman and the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$402 billion as of February 8, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [416] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [417] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX. [418]
SolarCity was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive, [2] based on a suggestion for a solar company concept by their cousin, Elon Musk, who was the chairman and helped start the company. [3] By 2009, solar panels it had installed were capable of generating 440 megawatts (MW) of power. [4] [5] In 2011, the company launched their ...
The company's current power generation products include solar panels (manufactured by other companies for Tesla), the Tesla Solar Roof (a solar shingle system), and the Tesla Solar Inverter. The company also makes a large-scale energy storage system called the Megapack. Additionally, Tesla develops software to support its energy products.
In March 1999, [15] Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company with $12 million of the money he made from the Compaq acquisition. [16] X.com was one of the first online banks that was federally insured, and over 200,000 customers joined in its initial months of operation.
Musk received the first portion of his stock options payout, worth more than $700 million in May 2020. [367] In July 2023, Tesla board members returned $735 million to the company to settle a claim from a 2020 lawsuit alleging misappropriation of 11 million stock options granted to Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, Larry Ellison, and others from 2017 to ...
Robotic manufacturing of the Model S at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California Tesla, Inc. operates plants worldwide for the manufacture of their products, including electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, solar shingles, chargers, automobile parts, manufacturing equipment and tools for its own factories, as well as a lithium ore refinery. The following is a list of current, future and ...
Musk is president of the Musk Foundation he founded in 2001, [21] [22] whose stated purpose is to: provide solar-power energy systems in disaster areas; support research, development, and advocacy (for interests including human space exploration, pediatrics, renewable energy and "safe artificial intelligence"); and support science and engineering educational efforts.
Elon Musk in 2022. Elon Musk is a South African-born businessman and the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$402 billion as of February 8, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [1] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [2] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX.