Elon Musk thinks batteries suck, but this didn’t stop his customers from buying the entire supply of the Tesla Powerwall in a matter of days.
The Hyperloop – people-carrying pods travelling at twice the speed of a plane – won’t be created by Elon Musk, but here’s how he wants it to work.
Elon Musk is a South African who has transformed online commerce, cars and space travel, and dreams of sending the first humans to Mars.
SA-born entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched its Dragon space capsule toward the International Space Station after a delay on Saturday.
Next week the billionaire SA expat Elon Musk will make space flight history by docking his own orbiter, Dragon, with the International Space Station.
More than 60 teams from nine countries have lined up to chase a -million prize for making a green supercar that smashes records for fuel efficiency, organisers of the competition said on Thursday. ”We’re not talking about concept cars,” said Peter Diamandis, chief executive of the X Prize Foundation.
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/ 21 February 2008
Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson’s space travel venture, plans to order five more spaceships and aims to turn a profit in five years from its commercial launch in 2010, an official said on Thursday. Prospective space travellers have so far placed deposits totalling more than -million for tickets that cost 000 each.
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/ 13 September 2007
Web search leader Google will sponsor a -million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the -million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space. The Google Lunar X Prize is open to private industry and non-government entities worldwide, organisers said on Thursday.