Most people are familiar with great Tesla cars, but the electric carmaker's next products will be bigger than personal transportation, much more imposing.
According to a recent Tweet from Elon Musk, Tesla is ready to “seriously go up to the next level”With an electric truck in just a few months. And after that, the company plans to debut an electric pickup in less than 2 years.
Musk first mentioned Tesla's plan to create a semi-truck in July 2016, while he was presenting his roadmap. According to the plan, the Tesla Semi truck is an essential part of the creating greener transport. An electric semi-truck, presumably self-sufficient, could make freight transport safer and cleaner for the environment.
Also, in a recent conversation on Twitter, Musk mentioned that the company is also working in a van for the Tesla line. Currently, the company's lineup includes a luxury Model S sedan, a Model X luxury crossover SUV and the More affordable Model 3, which should hit the streets later this year.
Below we can see other projects of the company
HYPERLOOP
hyperloops is the trade name registered by the aerospace transport company SpaceX, for the transport of passengers and goods in vacuum tubes at high speed.
The original Hyperloop sketch was an idea made public through a preliminary design document in August 2013, which included a theoretical route through the area of Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, for most of its route parallel to Interstate 5. Preliminary analysis indicated that the estimated time for such a route could be 35 minutes, meaning that passengers would traverse the 560-kilometer route at an average speed of around 970 km / h, with a maximum speed of 1.200 km / h.
SpaceX
SpaceX was founded in June 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of allow people to live on other planets.
It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, which have been built with the goal of being reusable space launch vehicles. SpaceX has also developed the Dragon spacecraft, which was launched into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicles. SpaceX designs, tests and manufactures most components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel and Draco rocket engines.
Smart Cities
All the #TeslaCities to which this benchmark of technological innovation aspires would take form house by house. All houses would be equipped with solar roofs that would cover their energy needs.
If they needed an extra contribution, there would be no problems, since they would get it from wind power plants or solar plants installed around the city.
The commitment to sustainability would also be palpable in the streets of this city; in which day-to-day transportation, with its air and noise pollution, would be nothing more than a bad memory. Here, trams, subways and electric vehicles would take over from urban transport.
In addition, pedestrians and cyclists in these cities would not need to conquer the ground they have lost in other cities, as Tesla plans to make life more friendly more spaces in the streets and a multitude of green areas to them.
A type of industry geared towards solving population needs and the banned access to carriers with their trucks, which would be replaced by robots for last kilometer deliveries, complete this city model that would not only stand out for its sustainability, but also for its commitment to technology.
Thus, among the ideas that are on the table for these cities listed high speed internet connection and the development of applications with all kinds of useful information, from transport schedules to vehicle sharing options.
Furthermore, also when it comes to transport in these cities, Will its inhabitants be the first to ride a Hyperloop? It is one of the open questions in which this initiative converges with another of the aspirations of the head of Tesla: to create a transport system capable of covering in one hour the distance between the two coasts of the United States.
While these secrets are being uncovered, reserving a space costs (as an advance only) $ 47.000, despite the fact that yet another great mystery remains to be solved: the location of the city, for which there has been speculation with Australia and England. This does not diminish the enthusiasm of those who yearn to settle in this smart city that, until now, they only believed possible as a product of Hollywood movies.
