Elon Musk at D11

[aznt1217]

So tomorrow Elon has to pull a Jobs and give us one more thing.-- swapping yea? charging faster than fueling a tank of gas?

 

[kevin99]

The truth is here:

8:08:55 PM PDT
Elon: The Supercharger network by the end of this year will cover most of the major areas of the US and Canada. You will be able to drive from LA to New York using Superchargers.

See my prediction at:

Expect Surprises In Tesla's Upcoming Supercharger Announcement

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Elon just pre-announce it in D11:

http://live.theverge.com/tesla-motors-ceo-elon-musk-live-blog-d11/

 

[aznt1217]

He's only giving us a little bit of the story. No partnership is mentioned nor is it mentioned.... Who did they partner with? How is the car going to charge faster than filling a tank of gas?

The truth is here:

8:08:55 PM PDT
Elon: The Supercharger network by the end of this year will cover most of the major areas of the US and Canada. You will be able to drive from LA to New York using Superchargers.

See my prediction at:

Expect Surprises In Tesla's Upcoming Supercharger Announcement

- - - Updated - - -

Elon just pre-announce it in D11:

http://live.theverge.com/tesla-motors-ceo-elon-musk-live-blog-d11/

 

[viperboy]

no details blogged about. I would assume it's still Solar City doing to tops of the chargers (where applicable). Also, i dont think 90kwh to 120kwh would classify as "dramatically" increasing, so hopefully more news tomorrow.

 

[jbm81]

D11 Conference - livestream of Elon Musk interview

enjoy ....

Liveblogging Tech Renaissance Man Elon Musk at D11 - Liz Gannes - D11 - AllThingsD

 

[moltenfire]

I like his thinking:

Musk: "I want a society where people are out exploring the stars. The goal of SpaceX is to make as much improvement as possible -- and hopefully we'll see people land on Mars in our lifetime. That'd be really great!" http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?tex...o-tesla-motors-spacex-live-at-d11/#post-42174
Darren Murph 11:18 PM
Whoa -- Musk is convinced there will be "an extinction event." Basically, we need to sort out this whole 'living on Mars' thing or else we're all going to die.
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?tex...o-tesla-motors-spacex-live-at-d11/#post-42173


Darren Murph 11:16 PM
Swisher: "Why Mars? What's attractive about Mars?"

 

[CapitalistOppressor]

"Elon: There's been some breakthroughs on warp drive. You can't exceed the speed of light, but you can warp space itself, so that space is moving."

I've been reading the research on this, and clearly warping space and going slower than light speed presents far fewer obstacles according to the studies I've read. This is the first I've heard about breakthroughs though. The only public info is that there are active experiments ongoing. Elon knows people that know people though...

Still, the skeptic in me thinks he means the theoretical work thats come out recently..

 

[FredTMC]

He's only giving us a little bit of the story. No partnership is mentioned nor is it mentioned.... Who did they partner with? How is the car going to charge faster than filling a tank of gas?

Coverage area will triple by month end because all the new locations they are currently announcing will be online then

 

[moltenfire]

The people in the audience are idiots if they've never heard of terraforming Mars with greenhouse gases, or the likelihood of an extinction event in the next few eons.

 

[Causalien]

It'll be neat to partner with Starbucks.

 

[CapitalistOppressor]

The planet is going to be cooked in about 500 million years regardless. In fairness, thats a decent amount of time to try and develop better rocketry.

 

[brianman]

The planet is going to be cooked in about 500 million years regardless.

Now where did I put my SPF 3000....

 

[moltenfire]

Well, when the sun goes nova (granted in a few eons), we'd better be on multiple star systems or we're all cooked.

 

[callmesam]

The planet is going to be cooked in about 500 million years regardless. In fairness, thats a decent amount of time to try and develop better rocketry.

But extinction level events as probably more frequent. Plus we are doing things to ourselves that might cause population instability. Diseases. Asteroids. Etc.

 

[FredTMC]

Now where did I put my SPF 3000....

classic. You guys think too far ahead

 

[callmesam]

HYPERLOOP?

Hyperloop?

 

[blakegallagher]

wow ... warping space .... that seems insane

 

[moltenfire]

I'll talk about the Hyperloop idea pretty soon. We'll have a Tesla announcement around June 20th or so, and... at some point after that, that'd be a good time to talk about Hyperloop.

 

[callmesam]

Hyperloop?

"It's a cross between a Concorde and a railgun. And I'll throw something else in there to make it more bizarre -- toss in an air hockey table."

 

[brianman]

I'll talk about the Hyperloop idea pretty soon. We'll have a Tesla announcement around June 20th or so, and... at some point after that, that'd be a good time to talk about Hyperloop.

First he was waiting on a profitable quarter. No he's waiting on an announcement on June 20th. This is starting to sound like "the Supercharger announcement."