My prediction;
1. Create a compelling residential/commercial solar-based electricity generation and storage solution that stimulates a transition away from fossil-fuels.
2. Expand the available product line of sustainable electric vehicles in order to appeal to a broader audience (pick up trucks, commercial transport, etc) and stimulate widespread adoption of EVs.
3. [This is the big one that only a master visionary like Elon can come up with so I will leave it blank]
Looking forward to whatever he comes up with!
I think
@3s-a-charm is on the right track. Here is my attempt at adding a few more details:
Goal: Accelerate the global transition to renewable production and consumption of energy.
Strategy: Produce an integrated end-to-end renewable energy system (solar production, battery storage, and battery-electric transportation) that is affordable, compelling (desirable) and convenient (just works).
Step 1: Create an initial end-to-end system with wide appeal and affordability: Model 3 + solar panels + PowerWall + inverter + installation, software support, and maintenance + financing, all easily purchased on an integrated website. A larger-scale version of the generation and storage system will be provided in parallel for applications ranging from individual businesses to microgrids to utilities. A high fraction of sales will still be of individual components of the system.
Step 2: Use the revenue, technological expertise, and data gained from step 1 to create a more affordable, more compelling energy system, involving a wider range of choices, produced at larger scale, to reach an order of magnitude more consumers. This includes a broader range of cars (more affordable CUV, truck, new sports car), a broader array of charging options (including street and parking lot charging), and a more streamlined array of generation choices (i.e. consumers without a home can purchase Tesla renewable energy from utility along with car purchase).
Step 3: Use revenue, technological expertise, and data from step 2 to create a suite of solutions that is sufficiently affordable, diverse, and compelling to replace the majority of current non-sustainable energy production consumption across many countries. This includes choice of solar energy as a service or panels as a product, storage as a service or product, and electric transportation as a service or product. There will be a high degree of software control of all three portions, including their integration.
In each step, Tesla will scale up production of the components as rapidly as possible, in part through innovations in factory layout and efficiency and in part through setting unrealistically optimistic deadlines ;-) Tesla will also continue to provide an example for other manufacturers, encouraging them to increase the number and diversity of similar products and systems, further increasing the pace of the renewable energy transition.
