Elon Musk: NY Gigafactory will reopen to produce ventilators

Factory Build

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk is still hoping to reopen one of his electric car company's Gigafactories for ventilator production.

Elon Musk: NY Gigafactory Will Reopen to Produce Ventilators

"We will do anything in our power to help the citizens of New York."

California is short 50,000 hospital beds.

"A heroic effort": Elon Musk donates 1,250 ventilators to hospitals

Walk the Walk

Elon Musk sourced some 1,255 ventilators from Chinese manufactures and donated them to hospitals in the Los Angeles area.

“Heroic Effort”: Elon Musk Donates 1,250 Ventilators to Hospitals

Elon Musk is finally putting his money where his mouth is.

His takes about coronavirus have ranged from dumb to dangerous.

Elon Musk is a public health risk

Musk You?

Elon Musk, once again, is inadvertently undermining the mass effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic. This time, he said that N95 masks are "a pain."

Elon Musk is a Public Health Risk

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Studies

Elon Musk could be helping. Elon Musk is making it worse.

"The coronavirus panic is dumb," Musk wrote in a March 6 tweet.

Elon Musk offers to make ventilators at Tesla factory

Thai Cave Rescue 2.0

In a series of tweets, Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to "make ventilators if there is a shortage" to assist hospitals during the coronavirus outbreak.

Elon Musk Offers to Make Ventilators at Tesla Factory

And he got his bluff called.

California cops say Tesla factory must shut down

Car Talk

Area cops are telling Elon Musk's electric automaker Tesla that it must shut down operations at its Fremont factory location.

California Cops Say Tesla Factory Must Shut Down

"Tesla is not an essential business as defined in the Alameda County Health Order."

Is Tesla's Fremont factory really that special, and essential? Elon Musk says it is.

As coronavirus rages, Elon Musk refuses to close Tesla factory

Cough Message

Even amid a Bay Area lockdown, enigmatic Tesla CEO Elon Musk refuses to shut down the carmaker's Fremont automobile factory.

As Coronavirus Rages, Elon Musk Refuses to Close Tesla Factory

Elon Musk: "My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself."

"Unless we improve our rate of innovation dramatically, then there is no chance of a base on the moon or a city on Mars."

Elon Musk: My main goal is to get humanity to Mars before I die

Rocket City

At a conference, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a crowd of industry insiders and journalists that his biggest concern is to get people to Mars before he dies.

Elon Musk: My Main Goal Is to Get Humanity to Mars Before I Die

"If we don’t improve our pace of progress, I’m definitely going to be dead before we go to Mars."

Tesla has been promising an "automatic driving on city streets" for months.

Elon Musk: New self-driving features will come out this month

Ghost Ridin' the Whip

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expecting his electric car company Tesla to release more full self driving features later this month.

Elon Musk: New Self-Driving Features Will Come Out This Month

Is self-driving tech hitting city streets next?

SpaceX Boca Chica - Starship SN1 cryo proof test failure - Feb 28, 2020

Musk has extremely ambitious plans in store for the spacecraft.

Elon Musk tweets vid of Starship crumpling up like a soda can

Just a Scratch

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a video showing a Starship prototype exploding in a massive cloud of gas, crumpling like a soda can.

Elon Musk Tweets Video of SpaceX Starship Exploding | Futurism

"It’s fine, we’ll just buff it out."

Elon Musk Tweets Vid of Starship Crumpling Up Like a Soda Can

"The F-35" would have no chance" against a "drone fighter plane that's remote controlled by a human."

Elon Musk tells Air Force general that fighter jets are over

Stop Trying to Make Fighter Jets Happen

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a room full of U.S. Air Force generals last week that "the fighter jet era has passed." Remotely-controlled drones are the future.

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