Elon Musk’s SECRET Tesla Tank SHOCKED The US: The Future of Tanks Exposed!

There’s no verified evidence that Tesla or Elon Musk has developed a secret “Tesla tank.” If this concept has appeared in media or speculative discussions, it’s likely either a rumor, fan fiction, or clickbait. However, let’s break down the idea for curiosity:

Tesla’s Expertise in EVs: Tesla is renowned for pioneering electric vehicle (EV) technology. An electric tank could theoretically leverage Tesla’s battery systems, autonomous driving capabilities, and energy efficiency.

Technological Challenges:

Durability: Military vehicles face extreme conditions that would test Tesla’s materials and engineering.

Power Supply: While Tesla batteries are powerful, creating a military-grade tank with sufficient range and firepower is a significant challenge.

Cost: Such a tank would likely be very expensive to design and produce.

Defense Industry Context: Tesla’s primary focus has been on consumer products and renewable energy. For a company like Tesla to enter the defense industry, it would need to navigate regulations, ethical concerns, and military procurement processes.

Current Innovation in Tanks: Military forces worldwide are already exploring electrification and automation for tanks, drones, and other vehicles, driven by the need for stealth, efficiency, and reduced emissions.

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Who is Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Tesla?

After many controversies, criticisms and memes,Elon Muskrealized theTwitter purchasefor US$44 billion. After the announcement, thecompany shares jumped10% in New York (TWTR). At B3, TWTR34 BDRs appreciated 7.4%, to R$126.20.

Musk’s purpose for the acquisition is not yet entirely clear, but the billionaire has long been critical of the alleged lack of freedom of expression on Twitter. His dry humor and eccentricities have earned him more than 83 million followers on the social network — which he now owns.

It is important to remember that the executive also owns the giants Space X (space exploration) and Tesla (electric car manufacturer), considered disruptive companies in the market. Learn more about the history of the businessman, who is today considered the richest man in the world by Forbes and has a collection of achievements and accusations.

Boy prodigy

Contrary to what many people think, Musk is not American. The entrepreneur was born in 1971 in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, and was a typical introverted teenager who enjoys games and books.

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It was through reading that he taught himself to program and at just 12 years old he created his own computer game, ‘Blastar’, which he later sold to the magazine “PC and Office Technology” for US$500.

In the game,which is available online, the player controls a spaceship and has to destroy an alien freighter. It is interesting to note that the young Musk already showed interest in the subject that would make him today the central figure in changing the space scenario in the world.

In 1989, at the age of 17, the future billionaire moved to Canada and began studying at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Two years later, he moved to Philadelphia, USA, where he graduated in economics from the Wharton School and in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Millionaire before 30

It was while he was still in Philadelphia, in 1995, that Musk created the company that would earn him the first millions of his career: Zip2 , founded in partnership with his brother, Kimbal Musk. The idea of ​​the company was to offer online newspapers a city guide based on information on the web.

Although it may seem like a simple proposition in 2020, the company was considered innovative at the time. Zip2 convinced investors and in 1999 was acquired by Compaq, a large computer company, for US$307 million. The current CEO of SpaceX was just 28 years old.

After the city guide for newspapers, Musk helped create another major successful project. In 1999, the entrepreneur founded X.com , an online financial services company. The following year, the company merged with Confinity , a financial transactions company that gave rise to the famous Paypal .

Musk was the largest shareholder and CEO of X.com . However, due to disagreements with other leaders, he was removed from the company in October 2000, although he continued to own a large portion of the startup’s shares. In October 2002, Ebay purchased Paypal for $1.5 billion. Of this amount, the current CEO of Tesla received $165 million.

Despite being ousted from the company after clashes with the board, everything indicates that Elon Musk never emotionally detached himself from the online payments company. In 2017, the eccentric billionaire bought back the domain “X.com”, which had been owned by Paypal since his departure in 2000.

In a post on Twitter, Elon Musk thanked the electronic payments giant for selling him the domain. “It has great sentimental value to me,” he said in the post. Currently, anyone who accesses theX.comyou will find a blank page, with a small ‘x’ in the top left corner of the screen.

SpaceX and Tesla Motors: ‘Iron Man’ is born

With US$100 million of his fortune, accumulated in the Zip2 and X.com ventures , Musk made his childhood dream come true. The materialization of the game ‘Blaster’ came in the year 2000, with the creation of the company Space Exploration Technologies, known by the fantasy name SpaceX .

The goal, which saw its first step achieved last Saturday, was to reduce the cost of space travel. The Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets were first launched in 2006 and 2010, respectively.

In 2011, SpaceX became the first company to sell a commercial flight to the Moon, using the Grasshopper rocket, a reusable spacecraft that could return to base after launch. The first passenger will be Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and the ‘trip’ is scheduled for 2023. All three spacecraft were designed by Elon Musk.

Tesla Motors , founded in 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, is a pioneering company in the manufacture of electronic cars, of which Musk was one of the first employees and investors. The billionaire invested around US$7.5 million in the company in 2004 and became chairman of the board that same year and CEO in 2008.

The first model manufactured by the company was the Roadster, a sports car that could travel up to 350 kilometers on a single battery charge. All the technology was created from scratch, so as not to have to pay for patents from other brands. Tesla then launched the Model S, which became the second best-selling electric car in the world, and the Model X.

However, not everything was easy in business. In 2008, in his first year as CEO of Tesla, there was a major economic crisis in the US, considered at the time the biggest since the Great Depression. The electric car manufacturer and SpaceX were on the brink of bankruptcy, when close to Christmas, Musk closed a $40 million investment that saved the companies.

Even in the midst ofcoronavirus pandemic, Musk’s companies have not stopped gaining value. Today, three years after turning a profit for the first time, Tesla’s market value has reached $100 billion, surpassing the value of Ford, General Motors, Fiat-Chrysler and Daimler combined.

At the head of these two large innovative companies, Elon Musk gained notoriety and fans on social media, who began to compare him to Iron Man, a billionaire and technology genius in the comics.

$700 million bonus and $0 invested in advertising

In Silicon Valley, it is common for CEOs of large companies to earn a symbolic annual salary of US$1. Elon Musk decided to do something different and lowered his annual salary to US$0, meaning he will officially live entirely off the profits his ventures generate.

At Tesla, for example, the CEO is entitled to 12 bonuses based on certain company performance targets. Last week, Musk managed to hit his first target after the automaker reached $20 billion in revenue and $100 billion in market value.

With this feat, the businessman unlocked the first installment of the payment, which should yield the already billionaire another US$700 million. This is because, in the first bonus, the company offers purchase options worth US$1.7 million in company shares to the CEO, at a value of US$350 each. At 4:59 pm this Monday (01), one Tesla share was worth US$898.10.

In addition to the million-dollar bonus, Musk must face a new challenge with the electronic car manufacturer. One of the shareholders, James Danforth, who holds 850 shares in the company, proposed to the CEO that he invest at least US$50 per car produced in advertising.

The idea is to finally work on marketing electric cars, since unlike its competitors, Tesla has never spent $1 on marketing and advertising its vehicles. According to Danforth’s arguments, this situation has left investors insecure, as the company announced the closure of retail stores in the first quarter of 2019 and the concentration of sales through its website.

Tesla ‘s board has already positioned itself against the proposal, which will be considered by other shareholders in July, and mentioned that the awards won by the automaker are the main way of advertising the cars. The company, in fact, is betting on alternative advertising, focused on the figure of Elon Musk, and also on the direct sale of cars.

Controversies

At the same rate that he was rising in business, Elon Musk was also involved in all sorts of controversies. Several employees at the Tesla factory in Freemont, California, at different times, denounced the company for racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism (prejudice against people with disabilities), sexual harassment, intimidation, exploitation of cheap foreign labor and even theft of image rights.

The content of the complaints was generally the same: after suffering some type of prejudice within Tesla , the employee was not only discredited, but later fired. In one case, engineer AJ Vandermeyden accused the company of ignoring reports of sexual harassment made by her and even paying her a lower salary than other male employees in the same position.

In a response to The Guardian, Musk said in an email that “we have had a few cases at Tesla where someone from an underrepresented group got a job or was promoted over more represented candidates and then decided to sue Tesla for millions of dollars because they felt they were not promoted enough. That is obviously not legal.”

Outside of the scope of subsequent discrimination allegations, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has also sent the company’s stock tumbling more than once with a simple tweet. On the morning of May 6, Elon Musk posted a series ofTwitter messagesin which he claimed that the automaker’s shares were too expensive and that he had plans to get rid of most of his physical assets. By noon that day, the shares had fallen more than 11%.

On other occasions, such as when he posted on the same social network that he would take Tesla Motors private for $420 per share, Musk and Tesla were each fined $20 million. The CEO was also removed from the company’s board by the SEC, the American CVM.

The former nerdy teenager’s latest controversial statements were in relation to social isolation, necessary to combat the coronavirus, and theexplicit support for President Donald Trump. When the US was already counting thousands of deaths, Musk described social distancing measures as ‘fascist’ and even mentioned that Tesla would open its factory in California, even with the region’s rules prohibiting reopening.