What’s Up, Elon: Musk Launched New Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai the Same Day Ex-Girlfriend Grimes ‘Randomly’ Was in China
Nexter.org tells about the most interesting things and events that happened with Elon during the last seven days.
Tesla’s “Gigafactory 3”
WATCH: @elonmusk shakes hands with China's Premier Li Keqiang after breaking ground on Tesla's $5,000,000,000 factory in Shanghai #TeslaChina pic.twitter.com/EDUUzlkeYO
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) January 9, 2019
On Jan. 7, just outside Shanghai, Elon Musk broke ground for Tesla’s “Gigafactory 3.”
By the end of the year, if all goes as Musk plans, there will be a glitzy new factory making electric cars, ramping up to an annual production of 500,000 cars within the next few years.
And now … we dance! pic.twitter.com/2TdS6EVSmi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 8, 2019
It would become the first fully foreign-owned car factory in China, and Tesla’s first factory outside the US. The company plans to sink as much as $5 billion (paywall) into the factory, and expects to recoup that investment by selling the cheapest versions of Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y to the world’s largest market for electric cars. The factory will also insulate Tesla against the vagaries of the trade war.
Starship’s hopper prototype
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also took to Twitter late last week to offer additional details and post what appears to be the first official render of Starship’s hopper prototype, which is now closer than ever before to looking like the real deal thanks to the incredible drive of the company’s southernmost employees.
A quiet day as #SpaceX workers were having lunch and enjoying a well deserved break under the shadows of their creation. The wings/legs of the vehicle are getting an aesthetic touch up. ?? #Starshiphopper #ElonMusk #RGV pic.twitter.com/Y0zNGUNily
— Austin Barnard (@austinbarnard45) January 7, 2019
With the massive rocket’s rough aeroshell and structure now more or less finalized, Musk’s targeted February/March hop test debut remains ambitious to the extreme but is now arguably far from impossible.
Elon Musk urged to release sex tape with ex-girlfriend Grimes
Source: Gene Blevins/ ZUMA Wire/ REX/ Shutterstock
Elon Musk has been asked to shoot a sex tape with his ex-girlfriend Claire ‘Grimes’ Boucher and replied to this rather bold suggestion by suggesting it was ‘reasonable’. The SpaceXXX movie wasn’t the idea of a porn producer, but a proposal from one of the billionaire’s fans on Twitter, who are often referred to as Muskbros. It was put forward in a creepy tweet which said: ‘Can a sex tape with Grimes generate enough buzz to raise funds for space travel?’ To which the billionaire replied: ‘That’s a reasonable question.’
By the way, Elon Musk’s reported ex-girlfriend Grimes tweeted “Randomly, I am in China” on Monday, the same day he launched his new Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai.
Grimes did not say what she was doing in China, or whether it was anything to do with Musk.
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