The Elon Musk Dance Challenge Needs to Be a Thing
In case you missed it, Tesla CEO Elon Musk awkwardly danced his way onstage at a Model 3 event at the brand’s Shanghai plant yesterday. The crowd cheered him on as he casually tossed his jacket to the side, bopped his head, and eventually transitioned into the “Walk Like an Egyptian” move, for some strange […]
What Does the Future Hold for Elon Musk’s Tesla?
This article is sponsored by Intelligent Vehicle Finance. With the recent unveiling of the Tesla Cybertruck as well as reports in October that Tesla posted a surprise $143m profit – there’s no indication that Tesla are going to stop on their upward trajectory anytime soon. With the increasingly tense battle with Porsche in the battle […]
Tesla Cybertruck Looks Like the Inside of Elon Musk’s Brain
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed his company’s newest vehicle: The Cybertruck. Yes, it sounds like something from an episode of Doctor Who. Yes, it kind of looks like something from an episode of Doctor Who, as well. The Cybertruck is Musk and Tesla’s attempt to compete with the growing American pickup truck market (though […]
CEO Profiles: Tesla’s Elon Musk
Famous for his groundbreaking innovations across multiple marketplaces, Elon Musk is quickly becoming a household name. Musk is currently the CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX. Background Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971. He spent most of his childhood in South Africa before moving to Canada at 17 years […]
Was Elon Musk Right? Facebook Shuts Down Artificial Intelligence After It Creates Its Own Language
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been head-to-head in the news lately with opposing views about Artificial Intelligence (AI). While Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, is enthusiastic about the new technology, Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., has issued many warnings against the use of the technology. Mark Zuckerberg believes Artificial Intelligence is the key to life-saving […]
Elon Musk Announces Plans for Hyperloop with 29-Minute NYC-to-DC Travel Time
Thursday afternoon, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., took to Twitter to announce he has received verbal government approval to built a hyperloop connecting New York City and Washington D.C. At this point, it is unclear what sort of approval Musk has received and from whom. USA Today reports that a White House spokesman for the […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Disney CEO Robert Iger Quit the White House Business Advisory Council
Leading up to President Donald Trump’s decision on whether to remain as a part of the Paris climate accord or not, Tesla CEO Elon Musk declared that he would leave the White House business advisory council if the President did decide to withdraw. As President Trump announced his intention to have the United States withdraw […]
Elon Musk is the Monster in BMW’s Corporate Horror Film
BMW employs scare tactics in pursuit of the electric throne it recently lost
BMW recently assembled a large group of of its BMW AG employees for a series of meetings at an abandoned airfield in Munich. During one such meeting, BMW held a presentation about the current state of the company. “We’re in the midst of an electric assault,” a BMW spokesperson stated during the presentation. “This must be taken […]
Elon Musk to GM “Pssh, Come Back With More Bolts”
As the first all-electric automaker to come to market, Tesla is something of a roaring success story for electric vehicle fans, making what was a tiny, niche market of short-distance, boring cars into something that could be cool. Since then, the mainstream automakers have often come out with concepts or vehicles that at the time […]
Sergio Marchionne Is “Impressed” with What Elon Musk Has Done
Over the weekend, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne, who is not so subtly trying to attract a buyer for his already supersized auto giant, visited Silicon Valley to meet with tech experts (or techsperts, as the young’uns are calling ‘em) from Apple, Google, and—yes—Tesla. Marchionne’s interest in meeting with Tesla CEO (and future […]
Why Elon Musk is Wrong About the Future of Driverless Cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk enjoys saying things; even when those things are, in all likelihood, partially or entirely BS. Recently, he made the news for saying things about autonomous cars—chiefly, that in the future, all new cars will eventually be manufactured with self-driving capabilities (probably true), and that because of this technological breakthrough, cars you […]
Elon Musk on The Simpsons: Tesla CEO Causes “Great ePression”
Tesla CEO and gilded redditor Elon Musk has once again shown up in a cartoon from the 1990s that’s more than a little past its prime. This time, Musk was actually a willing participant, lending his terribly emotionless voice to “The Musk Who Fell to Earth,” the 12th episode of The Simpsons’ 26th season. Before […]
Elon Musk Takes On Chevy, Auto Industry, and Reality in Detroit
Tesla CEO and gilded redditor, Elon Musk, didn’t have much to show off at this year’s 2015 North American International Auto Show, but that didn’t stop him from going to Detroit anyway to complain about the quality of the other cars there and describe how his cars will be a lot better, once they actually […]
Elon Musk Reddit AMA Launches Successfully, Endorses Daily Showering
Billionaire entrepreneur, PayPal founder, South Park character, and Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, is going to be launching his SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:00 a.m. EST today, Tuesday, January 6, 2015, in Florida (you can watch a live stream of it here). If the rocket successfully reaches the stratosphere, and then can manage to land […]
Elon Musk and Tesla Get South Park Treatment
Matt and Trey Go Car Crazy in Automotive-Themed "Handicar" Episode
With appearances on both The Price is Right and South Park, this week Tesla is really cornering the stoner television market. We are guessing Elon Musk won’t be too thrilled about the latter “endorsement,” though. In last night’s automotive-themed South Park episode, “Handicar,” series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone satirized electric car company Tesla […]
Elon Musk Gives Us the D – Er, the Tesla D, That Is
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, is known for making pretty big announcements and boldly going where other auto CEOs don’t even dream of going. For instance, he recently promised that we’ll have fully self-driving Teslas within the next six years, and he even joked that he might be interested in making a flying car. Musk also […]
Elon Musk Says We’ll Have Self-Driving Teslas within Six Years
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, is known for making outlandish promises, like the fact that he plans on making submarine cars and flying cars in the next few years. The thing is, the dude is such a solid guy—not to mention a freaking genius—that I kind of believe him. If he told me he had reconstructed a […]
Elon Musk to Bankrupt Mr. Burns on ‘The Simpsons’
It’s something of a rite of passage for celebrities to appear in the city of Springfield in a yellow-skinned, four-fingered form. Whether they’re playing themselves, as did Sir Paul McCartney or Johnny Carson, or portraying memorable characters like Leon Kompowsky or a talking coyote guiding Homer through a vision quest, anybody who’s anybody has had […]
