After the successful launch of their most ambitious mission so far, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is on a high, but his Tesla brand seems to be taking hit after hit. The production and delivery of the Tesla Model 3, their "affordable" $35,000 (£25,227.30) car seems to be hitting several roadblocks.Today, news broke that delivery of the base variant of the Model 3 has been pushed back to early 2019. This comes right after their Q4 and 2017 report was published. Cars that were promised in early 2018 are now being pushed to 2019.According to their website, customers who were waiting for the standard battery variant, rear wheel drive Model 3 will have to wait nearly one more year. Those who made the Day 1 reservation will get their cars, according to the website in late 2018, and Day 2 reservation holders will have to wait until next year.The reason for this push-back is reported to be because of the losses that the company has been facing over the last few quarters. Insideevs reports that if … [Read more...] about Is Elon Musk paying more attention to SpaceX than Tesla? Model 3 delivery pushed back to 2019
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Is Elon Musk Thinking About Building An Electric Airplane?
Tweet TweetBreaking news: Elon Musk wants to build a plane. An electric one! Are you surprised? Me either…after all, if he builds the fastest electric cars on earth, what’s the next logical step? I don’t want to be negativist, but what about the range? How large should be the batteries to provide a decent range without adding too much weight to the plane? Well, he says that, in the future, it will be possible that lithium-ion batteries to provide enough capacity to power a plane. Elon Musk is not only implicated in Tesla project, but he also founded back in 2002 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), with the purpose of enabling Mars’ colonization. The company had developed and built two launch reusable vehicles and a spacecraft, called Dragon, which attached to the International Space Station, supplying it with cargo. He is also the chairman and co-founder of SolarCity, a company that designs, finances and installs solar power systems. In the … [Read more...] about Is Elon Musk Thinking About Building An Electric Airplane?
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster isn’t going to hold up well in outer space
The world is justifiably tripping out over images — and the live feed — coming back from the proof-of-concept-slash-publicity stunt of Starman. You remember him; the dummy at the helm of a midnight cherry-colored Tesla Roadster that is careening from Earth's orbit, thanks to yesterday's SpaceX launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, its biggest yet.It's the first-ever payload launch demonstration for Elon Musk's super-rocket, which lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Tuesday thanks to more than 5 million pounds of thrust. It'll whisk Starman and his sports car at 7 miles per second, or 25,200 miles per hour, through the solar system.It's a hugely impressive feat, especially considering Musk himself gave the whole launch 50-50 odds of succeeding. True, the rocket thruster overshot its original Mars trajectory, and Starman is instead headed to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But that's still cool, and we can only hope that the cameras and … [Read more...] about Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster isn’t going to hold up well in outer space
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster unlikely to hold up well in outer space
The world is justifiably tripping out over images — and the live feed — coming back from the proof-of-concept-slash-publicity stunt of Starman. You remember him; the dummy at the helm of a midnight cherry-colored Tesla Roadster that is careening from Earth's orbit, thanks to yesterday's SpaceX launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, its biggest yet.It's the first-ever payload launch demonstration for Elon Musk's super-rocket, which lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Tuesday thanks to more than 5 million pounds of thrust. It'll whisk Starman and his sports car at 7 miles per second, or 25,200 miles per hour, through the solar system.It's a hugely impressive feat, especially considering Musk himself gave the whole launch 50-50 odds of succeeding. True, the rocket thruster overshot its original Mars trajectory, and Starman is instead headed to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But that's still cool, and we can only hope that the cameras and … [Read more...] about Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster unlikely to hold up well in outer space
Tesla Model 3 specs: Elon Musk’s budget EV is faster than we thought
► Model 3 production now 6 months behind schedule ► Faster than expected ► Cheapest Tesla on sale The Tesla Model 3 is the most affordable of Elon Musk’s electric cars to date, and that means it makes some compromises in terms of features, specs and general luxury. However, it looks like Tesla hasn’t cut corners when it comes to speed. Last week, DragTimes ran some tests on a new long-range variant of the Model 3, and found it to be faster than Tesla advertises. According to DragTimes’ video, which you can watch below, the Tesla Model 3 hit 60mph in just 4.667 seconds. That’s impressive on its own, but also rather surprising as Tesla itself advertises a time of 5.1 seconds. DragTimes beat the 5.1 figure more than once, too, so the Model 3 is clearly faster than stated. The speed discrepancy could be interesting for two reasons. Firstly, it shows that Tesla would rather under promise and over deliver, but it might also reveal … [Read more...] about Tesla Model 3 specs: Elon Musk’s budget EV is faster than we thought