Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk introduced on Friday that the corporate will construct a devoted robotaxi, saying it’s going to look fairly futuristic, with out giving a lot particulars.
He was talking on the opening ceremony of his Gigafactory in Texas for the primary time. He additionally mentioned Tesla will begin constructing the Cybertruck pickup at its new manufacturing unit close to Austin, Texas, subsequent yr.
Elon Musk, who was added to Twitter Inc.’s board after accumulating a stake within the social community, will be part of Chief Govt Officer Parag Agrawal at an organization all-hands assembly subsequent week to deal with worker questions.
Agrawal will host Musk on the Q&A session to assist ease inside issues in regards to the influence the billionaire could have on the corporate’s inside tradition and insurance policies, based on the Washington Submit, which earlier reported the assembly. A Twitter spokesman confirmed the corporate’s plans.
On April 4, Musk, 50, disclosed that he’d taken a greater than 9% stake in Twitter. The next day, Twitter mentioned Musk was becoming a member of its board, and Musk filed a brand new type with the US Securities and Change Fee classifying himself as an lively investor. He had earlier submitted the shape reserved for passive shareholders.
Musk, CEO of automaker Tesla Inc., is the world’s richest man, based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He’s additionally one of many greatest personalities on Twitter and has repeatedly stirred controversy on the platform. He’s at present searching for to exit a 2018 take care of the SEC that put controls in place associated to his tweeting about Tesla.
Musk mentioned he regarded ahead to quickly making “vital enhancements to Twitter.”
The Tesla chief started polling his followers on whether or not so as to add an “edit” button the service, a long-discussed tweak.
However Musk is a break-the-mold determine in American enterprise. On Thursday, he tweeted a photograph of himself smoking marijuana on a Joe Rogan podcast in 2018, with the caption, “Twitter’s subsequent board assembly is gonna be lit.”
Supply: Live Mint