Elon Musk
Agenda
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Who is Elon Musk?
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His projects (past, present, future)
Elon Musk
- American business magnate, investor and inventor
- Founder of SpaceX
- Cofounder of Zip2, PayPal and Tesla Motors
Zip2
The company developed and marketed an Internet "city guide" for the newspaper publishing industry. Musk obtained contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Compaq acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options in 1999. Musk received 7% or US$22 million from the sale.
X.com and PayPal
In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company. The company was renamed as PayPal in 2001.
PayPal is an American worldwide online payments system. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which US$165 million was given to Musk.
SpaceX
In 2001, Musk conceptualised "Mars Oasis"; a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars, containing food crops growing on Martian regolith, in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration.
SpaceX was founded in 2002.
SpaceX
SpaceX is a privately funded space transportation company.
It has developed Falcon 1, Falcon 9 rockets and private spacecraft called Dragon.
Falcon 9 landing
SpaceX goals
- improve the cost and reliability of access to space (I believe $500 per pound ($1,100/kg) or less is very achievable.)
- hopes to send humans to Mars' surface within 10–20 years (fully and rapidly reusable rockets)
Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors was incorporated in July 2003. Musk joined Tesla's Board of Directors as its Chairman in 2004.
Following the financial crisis in 2008, Musk assumed leadership of the company as CEO and product architect, positions he still holds today.
Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors, Inc. is an American automotive and energy storage company that designs, manufactures, and sells electric cars,
electric vehicle powertrain components, an battery products.
As of March 2015, Tesla Motors has delivered about 70,000 electric cars since 2008.
Tesla Roadster
- first production auto to use lithium-ion battery cells
- first mass production BEV to travel more then 200 miles
$98.000
Tesla Model S
- up to 426 km on a single charge
- The Tesla Model S was the top selling new car in Norway in September 2013
- Model S owners have accumulated over 1 billion electric miles
- Have won a lot of awards
$75.000
Tesla plans
- planned to deliver new mass-market model called Model 3 with the a starting price of $35.000
- wants to reach 640 km range on a single charge
- increase supercharger network
SolarCity
Musk provided the initial concept, and financial capital for SolarCity, which was then co-founded in 2006. SolarCity is now the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States.
The underlying motivation for funding both SolarCity and Tesla is to help combat global warming.
Hyperloop
The Hyperloop is a conceptual high-speed transportation system put forward by entrepreneur Elon Musk, incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.
Hyperloop
Hyperloop capsule
Hyperloop infrastructure
Thank you.
Questions?
Elon Musk
By Yevhen Bezpalko
