What’s up, Elon Musk: Biggest battery and Boring Hats
Elon Musk regularly pleases his Instagram and Twitter followers with cool news and great updates. Nexter sums up what you might miss this week October 23-30.
Elon Musk’s giant battery
Elon Musk’s proved he can build a world biggest battery in 100 days.
Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2017
Tesla has finished building lithium-ion battery in South Australia, a Powerpack system with 100 megawatts of capacity. Now it is preparing for the tests. Everybody is expecting for the official launch scheduled for the next week.
Boring Hats
Believe or not, more than 15,000 of these Boring Hats were sold by Elon.
Source: boringcompany.com
As the price is around $20, at least 15,000 hats were sold in a month. On his Twitter page, Musk thanked his followers and shared the good news.
Initial Hat Offering going great w over $300k in hat sales already! Thanks for buying our super boring hat. You rock, figuratively & literally. All cash goes directly towards more boring.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2017
AI to kill us all, again
The issue connected with AI is raised again by Musk. This time, in an interview with Rolling Stone, the billionaire claimed we have only a five to 10 percent chance of success at making AI safe.
“Between Facebook, Google, and Amazon — and arguably Apple, but they seem to care about privacy — they have more information about you than you can remember,” said Musk. “There’s a lot of risk in the concentration of power. So if AGI [artificial general intelligence] represents an extreme level of power, should that be controlled by a few people at Google with no oversight?”
Tesla Semi Truck acceleration
Tesla boasts that its semi-truck can go from 0-60 MPH in five seconds flat. What’s more, the Tesla Semi, when hauling 80,000 pounds, can go from 0-60 MPH in 20 seconds.
We designed the Tesla truck to be like a bullet,” Musk said on the presentation last week.
Recently, a video of a Tesla Semi showcasing its unrivaled acceleration surfaced online.
Also, Tesla announced estimated price on its Semi website for the 300- and 500-mile versions of $150,000 and $180,000 respectively, that is less than some pundits predicted.
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