Elon Musk
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+ Elon Musk is the co-founder and CEO at Tesla, overseeing all product design, engineering and
+ manufacturing of the company's electric vehicles, battery products, and Solar Roofs.
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+ Since the company’s inception in 2003, Tesla’s mission has been to accelerate the world’s
+ transition to a sustainable energy future. The first Tesla product, the Roadster sports car,
+ debuted in 2008, followed by the Model S sedan, which was introduced in 2012, and the
+ Model X SUV, which launched in 2015. Model S was named Motor Trend 2013 Car of the Year
+ and received Consumer Reports’ Best Overall Car, while Model X was the first SUV ever to
+ earn 5-star safety ratings in every category and sub-category in the National Highway Traffic
+ Safety Administration’s tests. In 2017, Tesla began deliveries of Model 3, a $35,000 mass-
+ market electric car with over 215 miles of range, and unveiled Tesla Semi, which is designed
+ to save owners at least $200,000 over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.
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+ Tesla also produces two energy storage products, the Powerwall home battery and the
+ Powerpack industrial-scale battery. In 2016, Tesla became the world’s first vertically-integrated
+ sustainable energy company with the acquisition of SolarCity, the leading provider of solar
+ power systems in the United States, and in 2017 released Solar Roof – a beautiful and
+ affordable energy generation product.
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+ Elon is also the co-founder, CEO and lead designer of Space Exploration Technologies
+ (SpaceX), where he oversees the development and manufacturing of advanced rockets and
+ spacecraft for missions to and beyond Earth orbit, with the goal of creating a self-sustaining
+ city on Mars. He is also CEO of Neuralink, which is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-
+ machine interfaces to connect the human brain to computers. Elon also founded and serves
+ as CEO of The Boring Company, which combines fast, affordable tunneling technology with an
+ all-electric public transportation system in order to alleviate soul-crushing urban congestion
+ and enable high-speed long-distance travel.
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+ Previously, Elon co-founded and sold PayPal, the world's leading Internet payment system,
+ and Zip2, one of the first internet maps and directions services, which helped bring major
+ publishers like the New York Times and Hearst online.
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