Not to mention the content, from the name of official website, Tesla is fascinating enough. You can search if you don't believe me. Official website, an automobile brand, mostly adopts "brand name+advertising language", or takes both as website names in turn. Let's take a look at Tesla's official website name-"Pure electric vehicles, solar panels and clean energy storage? |? Tesla.
If you just look at cars, Tesla official website is similar to other brands of official website. The key is that it has an "energy" option. After this option was clicked in, my friends and I were shocked. So I decided to take a good look and see what Musk has been fiddling with these years, and whether it can be called "the real version of Iron Man".
1, photovoltaic power generation
The first thing to talk about is the "energy" in Tesla official website. As early as1994,65438+February, when Musk was studying at the University of Pennsylvania, he wrote a paper describing solar energy, "The Future of Energy Station": "A pair of huge solar panels are floating in space, each of which is 4000 meters long. The antenna used to receive energy is 7000 meters long." Because this paper is imaginative, the professor gave it 98 points.
Solar energy? City (Sun City) is the first company in the United States to do photovoltaic power generation industry, which once suffered heavy losses. In 20 16, Musk acquired SolarCity for $2.6 billion and became the company's chairman and largest shareholder. After the acquisition, the same product suddenly changed from SolarCity manufacturing to Tesla manufacturing, so it gradually became popular. In the past few years, Tesla has joined hands with Sun City to launch Powerwall and Solar. Roofs (solar roofs) and other products, and provide users with all-round solar services from system design, installation, financing, construction supervision and so on.
Just a week ago, Musk announced that Tesla would expand its solar roof business around the world this year and will soon enter the markets in China and Europe. In 20 19, Tesla solar roof launched the latest third-generation products, with higher power density, lower cost and significantly improved power generation efficiency. Musk said that solar roofs are one of Tesla's important product lines. It is estimated that the market demand for solar roofs will be very strong in 2020. In the United States alone, 4 million new roofs are "born" every year, and 654.38 billion houses around the world can use this product.
In terms of price, solar roofs cost 2. 1 1 USD per watt. Take a 2000-square-foot (185 square meter) roof, for example, the power of 10 kw needs 33,950 USD (238,000 RMB). Although it sounds expensive, if you think about it, if you can afford a house with a "roof", it may not be worse than this 200 thousand.
According to the fourth quarter financial report of 20 19 released by Tesla, Tesla's solar energy business increased by 26% month-on-month, with a significant growth rate.
2.Starlink ("Star Chain" project)
Before talking about the "Star Chain" project, I have to talk about Musk's Space Exploration Technology Company (Space Exploration Technology).
Space Exploration Technology Company is a space transportation company, which was founded by Musk in June 2002. To put it bluntly, it is a company that makes rockets and one of Musk's most successful companies to date. In the past twenty years, Space Exploration Technology Company has made great achievements in the space transportation industry: Falcon of Space Exploration Technology Company? 1 is the world's first privately produced liquid fuel rocket; Space exploration technology company is the first private company in the world to realize the first reuse of orbital rockets; Space Exploration Technology Company launched the Falcon heavy rocket for the first time in February, 2065438+2008, and placed a Tesla Roadster sports car in the rocket, with a fake astronaut named "Starman" in the driver's seat ... For more achievements, please Baidu yourself, which is really endless.
Next, we can talk about Starlink ("Star Chain" project). "Star Chain" is a project of Space Exploration Technology Company. From 2065,438+09 to 2024, Space Exploration Technology Company plans to build a "star chain" network consisting of about 1.2 million satellites in space. It is said that there are more than 30,000 satellites, and it will start working in 2020. This plan sounds a bit sci-fi, even ridiculous. What's the use of launching so many satellites?
When more than 4,000 microsatellites are successfully deployed, the remaining 75 18 satellites will be launched into ultra-low orbit at an altitude of 340km. In this way, the "star chain" can complete the global Wifi coverage without dead ends, greatly increasing the use capacity, thus truly replacing the high-speed, high-bandwidth, low-delay global Internet with traditional optical fibers. There is no doubt that this will be a great change that subverts traditional operators.
Space Exploration Technology Company plans to put 720 "Star Chain" satellites into orbit through 12 rocket launch missions. Each launch mission consists of 60 satellites, each weighing about 260 kilograms. After completing this task, the company hopes to provide "star chain" service to customers in the northern United States and Canada by the end of 2020, and start to cover the whole world on 20021.
Ten days ago, on February 27th, Space Exploration Technology Company sent the fifth batch of 60 "Star Chain" satellites into space. So far, Space Exploration Technology Company has launched 300 "Star Chain" satellites.
3. Mars migration plan
Based on the space exploration technology company, in addition to the "star chain", Musk has a crazier plan, which is also the theme that has appeared in countless science fiction movies-the Mars immigration plan.
The first step of Martian immigration is to find a place to build a suitable spaceship. On February 25th, Los Angeles, California approved Space Exploration Technology Company to lease port land and build a starship research and manufacturing factory, which will also be the closest starship factory to the headquarters. The starship is a project designed by Musk for human beings to settle on Mars. The researchers said that this will be the largest spaceship in human history, and it can take 100 people, which is equivalent to 30 times the number of ordinary manned spacecraft members.
The second step is to "plug" people into the spacecraft and launch them into the universe. NASA will deliver two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of April or before May 2020. This mission, called Demo-2, will be the first manned launch in the history of Space Exploration Technology Company 18. Demo-2 will also mark the first time in history that a spacecraft built by a private company has put humans into orbit.
In addition, space exploration technology company and space last week? The venture company signed a contract, and the two sides plan to start the space tourism plan from the end of 2002/KLOC-0 to the beginning of 2022. The crew of Space Exploration Technologies? The dragon spacecraft can carry up to four tourists at a time. Visitors will first train in the United States for a few weeks, and then take off in a manned dragon spacecraft in Florida. You can stay on the track for five days on each trip.
The last step is to successfully land on Mars and live there for a long time. Previously, NASA's Mars migration plan was to carry out a series of transformations on Mars to make it have the climate environment of the earth, and then migrate to Mars little by little. Musk said that in 2024, he will successfully establish a human community on Mars, and successfully transport the first batch of earthlings to Mars through screening and registration, becoming the first batch of "no return" Martian residents. As for how to build this community, Musk did not disclose it to everyone, which is still worth looking forward to.
4. Underground high-speed traffic
Heaven and earth have been a set of "combined techniques" since ancient times, and Musk is no exception. In 20 12, Musk put forward the concept of "Hyperloop". Its principle is to use magnetic levitation to make the transport cabin of the train move forward in a nearly vacuum pipeline. Each cabin can take 28 people and fly across the country or even across the mainland at a speed of 600 miles per hour.
20 16 12, Musk tweeted in a traffic jam: "The traffic jam is driving me crazy! I want to build a tunnel excavator and start digging tunnels. " To this end, Musk, who dared to do it, immediately opened a "boring" company-The Boring Company.
At present, the excavation company is building an underground tunnel network in Los Angeles. In the tunnel, the system will automatically transfer the car through the electric skateboard. What is the fastest speed of electric skateboard? 130 mph (about 209 km/h). Musk once said that there will be as many underground tunnel networks? 30? The second floor tunnel can transport cars and super trains. However, this? 30? The layer tunnel is not so easy to realize, and Musk can only be in his own? Space exploration technology company dug a tunnel under the parking lot as a demonstration. If he wants to continue digging, he must get a government license.
10 days ago, the company announced the construction of the first commercial tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center Park, which is about 1 0,600 meters long. The tunnel is 1.3km long and 12.2m deep, connecting the South Hall and the newly-built West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. It takes about 15 minutes for an ordinary car to travel between the two places, but the newly built tunnel and the special Tesla electric car running at full speed can shorten the transportation time between the two places to about 1 minute.
5. Brain-computer interface
If you can't compete with Iron Man with money, the next thought-provoking black technology may excite Doctor Strange.
In the summer of 20 16, a company named Neuralink was established. Until recently, people began to hear about this company and were surprised to find that Musk was one of its founders. ? Unlike several other companies in Musk, Neuralink has only one job-developing a "brain-computer interface".
Brain-computer interface (BCI) refers to the direct connection path between human or animal brain and external devices. The brains connected in series through BCI can transmit signals and exchange information with external devices. In short, you can control computers and other devices through "ideas". To give the simplest example, with the brain-computer interface, the computer can do whatever it wants, and there is no need to worry about eating operations such as "death flash" caused by the inability to keep up with the hand speed.
Musk believes that this technology will have a great impact on the research, monitoring and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease or dementia. At this stage, BCI still faces many ethical problems, such as how to restrict the collection, analysis, dissemination and use of human privacy by BCI to prevent human beings from becoming "transparent people", or whether AI will realize direct control over the human brain through self-development.
6. Electric cars
Finally, I had to go back to Tesla. After all, the company at the bottom of the Musk Technology Pyramid is the leading brand of technology that we are exposed to in our current life.
Needless to say, Tesla's position in the electric vehicle industry. In recent years, many manufacturers have introduced electric vehicles with various performances to shake Tesla. Although it can't be said that it is a big wind, the gap is still quite large. The establishment of Tesla Giga Shanghai also made many domestic brands shudder. Domestic brands continue to refuel, and there is Porsche Taycan? Turbocharged? As a competitor of high-performance models, S makes some analysis.
In terms of price, Taycan? Turbocharged? S (hereinafter referred to as the former) is 654.38+0.798 million yuan, and the high-performance version (hereinafter referred to as the latter) is 893.9 million yuan. The former is twice as expensive if it is not matched. In terms of cruising range, the former NEDC cruising range is 465km and the latter is 650km, which is 40% higher than the former. In terms of body weight, the former weighs 2338kg, while the latter weighs 2 100kg. The former weighs 238kg when its endurance is 40% lower than that of the latter. In terms of performance, the maximum power of the former is 560kW, the maximum torque is1050 N m, and the acceleration time of 0- 100km/h is 2.8 s; The latter has a maximum power of 577kW, a maximum torque of 931n m, and an acceleration time of 0- 100km/h of 2.6s In terms of intelligent assisted driving, the former is L2, and the latter is L2, but it is promised that it will be automatically upgraded to L4 in the future.
Strange cognition will blind your eyes, but parameters will not deceive people. This time, compare and see.
Tesla Cybertruck released not long ago shocked everyone. The sci-fi shape, 30 times cold-rolled stainless steel as the body, and the armored glass that Musk overturned on the spot surpassed the superior performance of many high-performance pickups on sale, making Cybertruck a Qvanxian Zhang business card for Tesla.
Therefore, we don't need to be surprised by any unprecedented operation of Musk in the future, because Tesla, the lowest thing in his technical shelf, has affected the entire automobile industry and the way people travel. Musk's goal is to use technology to improve the quality of human life in the future. The title of "Real Iron Man" is even worse for Musk.
The last small egg, in "iron man 2" 25 minutes 5 1 sec, Musk appeared as a guest actor, and Stark personally praised the Merlin engine of Space Exploration Technology Company.
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