Author: The Muskette
Elon Musk’s pockets just got $15-billion heavier after S&P Global’s announced listing of Tesla in the S&P 500. Musk is now positioned to challenge Zuck for the bronze seat of the world’s richest. Tesla’s CEO just got $15 billion added to his name after the confirmed S&P 500 listing. Musk is on track to overtake Mark Zuckerbeg, Facebook CEO, as the third richest in the world. As per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk is now worth $117 billion after the S&P 500 announcement on Monday. Tesla will be officially added to the list of S&P 500 components on December…
The S&P 500 index is set to welcome Tesla Inc., which was founded by the mercurial Elon Musk back in 2003, to its list of components. Tesla stock spiked during the extended session, which builds atop its 387% gain this year and the annual high recorded in August. An impressive feat for a company that only became profitable last year; as per its annual report back in January 2020. The S&P Dow Jones Index announced just this Monday that the clean energy and electric vehicle company will be added to its list of components on prior to the markets opening…
Joe Biden’s presidency presents an assortment of pros and cons for Tesla and electric car manufacturers in general. Biden is on record lobbying for stronger regulations enforcement, which includes but is not limited to financial and labor regulations, on American manufacturers. This potential clampdown by way of better enforcement and, perhaps, additional regulations may prove to hinder the electric vehicle giant and its effervescent CEO, Elon Musk. The upside is that the president-elect’s manufacturing and clean energy agenda may bear fruit to new government-backed incentives for domestic manufacturers, especially clean energy and electric vehicle companies like Tesla. Moreover, the waters…
SpaceX is now in the initial stages of assembling the Super Heavy booster, which is essential for the company’s purported orbital Starship launches and deep space missions. Technically, SpaceX could have tested the waters with a smaller Super Heavy prototype for the initial Starship orbital missions. Based on the purported images captured of the assembly, however, it seems that SpaceX has gone from the prototype directly into the development of a full-scale booster. The Super Heavy Booster aft tank section was moved into the high bay at SpaceX Boca Chica. ??@NASASpaceflight https://t.co/9sTD7oIUwZ pic.twitter.com/f2M1lufvLV — Mary (@BocaChicaGal) November 8, 2020 The…
The Crew Dragon returned from the International Space Station back to the Earth Sunday, August 2. As it dived into our planet’s atmosphere, it roared. As NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, who was in the spacecraft, said, “it really came alive.” “It doesn’t sound like a machine; it sounds like an animal,” he added. The return was a spectacle to watch. The thrusters- the propulsive devices fitted into rockets- fired and the heat inside the capsule built up to a temperature of 3500 degrees Fahrenheit. Flames surrounded the spacecraft, blackening the once-white body and clouding the windows. Despite this, Behnken and…
Elon Musk has a lot to say about the character of American people. He recently said that Americans are ‘entitled’ and ‘complacent,’ in stark contrast with the ‘smart’ and ‘hardworking people’ of China. This was in the first part of a three-part interview with the Daily Drive podcast hosted by Automotive News. Musk was also critical of the policies implemented by New York and California, although these states have provided considerable support to his companies, mainly Tesla, with tax breaks and regulatory credits, among other things. The interview was conducted by Jason Stein, who is also a publisher at Automotive…
With Tesla’s stock recently skyrocketing, it has become one of the most valuable automobile manufacturers in the world, and for a long time, it has also been a leader in automobile technology. That being said, the company cannot accomplish its goal of making the industry more sustainable by itself: it needs to bring in the other big players. One of the ways in which Tesla is transitioning towards greater sustainability is through electrification. However, a single company- out of the thousands in the industry- can only have so much impact. This is why it needs to get other automobile manufacturers…
One of NASA’s advanced rovers was successfully launched in the summer of international Mars missions. This occurred after the launches from other countries, including the launch of the Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft from China and the Hope Mars mission from the United Arab Emirates. NASA embarked on the 309 million mile journey (which is around 497 million kilometers) from the Earth to Mars as its Mars 2020 Perseverance mission was launched. The Perseverance rover was attached to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket and Centaur upper stage. This, along with the Ingenuity helicopter, took off on…