Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
physics mechanic quantum
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
self car safety
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
sports opportunity america
Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
space cost transportation
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
car company productions
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
fighting car tesla
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
electric-motors cells batteries
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
stuff economics reason
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
demise rumours industry
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
inspirational party kids
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
land humanity would-be
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
technology california fruition
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
two humanity extinction
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.
moving track lessons
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.