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Tesla’s possessor, Elon Musk, has said it is an “open secret” that Apple is making a rival electrical car.
He also predicted vehicles that could not drive themselves would become a “strange anachronism” before too long.
The tech entrepreneur’s comments were made during an off the hook interview with the Big black cock at his design studio near Los Angeles.
Tesla vies with Nissan and BMW to be the world’s bestselling electric-car brand, but presently runs at a loss.
An added challenge is that over latest months several of its engineers have been hired by rivals, including China-backed Faraday Future and Apple.
Apple has not formally announced it is working on a vehicle, albeit it did recently register several automobile-related internet domains, including apple.car and apple.auto.
Mr Musk said it was “visible” that the company would attempt to make a compelling car of its own.
“It’s pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it,” he said.
But he did not see the iPhone-maker as a threat.
“It will expand the industry,” he said.
“Tesla will still aspire to make the most compelling electrical vehicles, and that would be our objective, while at the same time helping other companies to make electrified cars as well.”
Shove to summon
Mr Musk outlined a vision of a future where all cars would be electrified and autonomous, and driving yourself would become a hobby rather than a necessity.
Tesla’s Model S – a sports car that ranges from £56,000 to £85,000 depending on the chosen battery capacity and spectacle – has been one of the bestselling electrical cars of latest years.
In latest months, its Autopilot feature has given the car a number of autonomous driving features:
- keeping in lane
- adjusting its speed as other cars cut in
- switching lane without the driver needing to intervene
Last weekend, it gained a fresh “beta” feature that permits owners to summon their car with their smartphone.
“[With] the current version of Summon, the car will come and find you if you’re on private property,” Mr Musk said.
“The car will exit the garage, close the garage behind it and come over to you.
“This is the very first baby step – ultimately you’ll be able to summon the car from Fresh York if you’re living in LA, and it will drive across the country, charge itself at the various locations and come to you.”
This may sound like a vision of the distant future, but Mr Musk says it could be feasible in “a duo of years.”
Sentimental drivers
At both last week’s Consumer Electronics Showcase in Las Vegas and this week’s Detroit Motor Demonstrate, a number of other car makers have shown off innovations in electrical vehicles and automated driving.
Mr Musk said electrification and autonomy were the two fattest innovations in the industry since the moving production line.
“In the long term, nobody will buy a car unless it’s autonomous,” he said.
“Possessing a car that is not self-driving in the long term will be like possessing a pony – you would own it and use it for sentimental reasons but not for daily use.”
At this stage, Tesla produces only luxury models and is still making big losses.
Its founder admitted that its future would depend on the cheaper Model three version, which he said would go into production at the end of 2017.
“Unless there’s an affordable car, we will only have a puny influence on the world.
“We need to make a car that most people can afford, in order to have a substantial influence.”
Making rockets
Mr Musk has two other businesses, rocket company Space X and energy supplier SolarCity.
Space X has also lost enormous sums since it was founded, but last month it succeeded in landing its Falcon rocket upright after launching satellites into orbit.
Mr Musk now hopes to repeat the feat, using a floating barge in the Pacific Ocean as the landing pad.
He said making rockets reusable would convert the economics of the space industry.
“At the beginning I thought Space X and Tesla had a 10% chance of success. So, I’m fairly astonished to see we’re alive,” he said.
“[It’s] superb, I wasn’t expecting that.”
Space X is in fierce competition with Blue Origin, the rocket business possessed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – but when asked about the rivalry Mr Musk answered: “Jeff who?”
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Tesla’s proprietor, Elon Musk, has said it is an “open secret” that Apple is making a rival electrical car.
He also predicted vehicles that could not drive themselves would become a “strange anachronism” before too long.
The tech entrepreneur’s comments were made during an sensational interview with the Big black cock at his design studio near Los Angeles.
Tesla vies with Nissan and BMW to be the world’s bestselling electric-car brand, but presently runs at a loss.
An added challenge is that over latest months several of its engineers have been hired by rivals, including China-backed Faraday Future and Apple.
Apple has not formally announced it is working on a vehicle, albeit it did recently register several automobile-related internet domains, including apple.car and apple.auto.
Mr Musk said it was “evident” that the company would attempt to make a compelling car of its own.
“It’s pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it,” he said.
But he did not see the iPhone-maker as a threat.
“It will expand the industry,” he said.
“Tesla will still aspire to make the most compelling electrical vehicles, and that would be our objective, while at the same time helping other companies to make electrified cars as well.”
Thrust to summon
Mr Musk outlined a vision of a future where all cars would be electrified and autonomous, and driving yourself would become a hobby rather than a necessity.
Tesla’s Model S – a sports car that ranges from £56,000 to £85,000 depending on the chosen battery capacity and spectacle – has been one of the bestselling electrical cars of latest years.
In latest months, its Autopilot feature has given the car a number of autonomous driving features:
- keeping in lane
- adjusting its speed as other cars cut in
- switching lane without the driver needing to intervene
Last weekend, it gained a fresh “beta” feature that permits owners to summon their car with their smartphone.
“[With] the current version of Summon, the car will come and find you if you’re on private property,” Mr Musk said.
“The car will exit the garage, close the garage behind it and come over to you.
“This is the very first baby step – ultimately you’ll be able to summon the car from Fresh York if you’re living in LA, and it will drive across the country, charge itself at the various locations and come to you.”
This may sound like a vision of the distant future, but Mr Musk says it could be feasible in “a duo of years.”
Sentimental drivers
At both last week’s Consumer Electronics Demonstrate in Las Vegas and this week’s Detroit Motor Demonstrate, a number of other car makers have shown off innovations in electrical vehicles and automated driving.
Mr Musk said electrification and autonomy were the two largest innovations in the industry since the moving production line.
“In the long term, nobody will buy a car unless it’s autonomous,” he said.
“Wielding a car that is not self-driving in the long term will be like wielding a pony – you would own it and use it for sentimental reasons but not for daily use.”
At this stage, Tesla produces only luxury models and is still making big losses.
Its founder admitted that its future would depend on the cheaper Model three version, which he said would go into production at the end of 2017.
“Unless there’s an affordable car, we will only have a puny influence on the world.
“We need to make a car that most people can afford, in order to have a substantial influence.”
Making rockets
Mr Musk has two other businesses, rocket company Space X and energy supplier SolarCity.
Space X has also lost enormous sums since it was founded, but last month it succeeded in landing its Falcon rocket upright after launching satellites into orbit.
Mr Musk now hopes to repeat the feat, using a floating barge in the Pacific Ocean as the landing pad.
He said making rockets reusable would convert the economics of the space industry.
“At the beginning I thought Space X and Tesla had a 10% chance of success. So, I’m fairly astonished to see we’re alive,” he said.
“[It’s] good, I wasn’t expecting that.”
Space X is in fierce competition with Blue Origin, the rocket business possessed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – but when asked about the rivalry Mr Musk answered: “Jeff who?”
