Just 20 years after the invention of the airplane
by Wright brothers, air travel became a usual
thing to do.
When Apple launched its first iPhone in 2007,
within the next 10 to 15 years smartphone
became an everyday used gadget.
Currently, more than 40 percent of the world’s
population is using smartphones.
It is interesting how the things, which people
once thought would be impossible to invent,
have become a part of our daily lives.
It just takes one courageous innovator with
an idea to disrupt any industry.
Elon Musk is one of those rare innovators
who has disrupted three industries in his
lifetime.
The space industry, finance, and the automobile
industry.
Today we are going to see his inventions and
some interesting things about them.
Hi, guys, this is Pratik You are watching
eclectic and welcome to the inventions of
Elon Musk.
The Hyperloop
Elon Musk and his SpaceX team presented a
white paper on Hyperloop.
Elon made the concept open-sourced and said
anyone interested can take the idea further
to develop it.
Hyperloop would be the fastest way to travel.
Passenger will sit in pods that travel at
airline speed through pressurized tubes using
electric propulsion and magnetic levitation.
imagine traveling non-stop at up to 670
miles per hour above land or underground
this is Hyperloop a new mode of
transportation that has been developed
by the hyperloop one
it starts with an electric motor
which is broken up into two basic
components the rotor which rotates and
the stator which is stationary the
stator is an electromagnet
so when an electric current passes
through it the rotor is magnetically
attracted to spin unlike a normal
electric motor the Hyperloop one motor
isn't circular its linear and the rotor
is on the pod which has propelled
magnetically as it moves over the stator
Hyperloop one's unique technology uses
magnetic levitation to guide and lift
the pod off the track nearly all of the
air inside the hive loop tube is removed
using a series of vacuum pumps this
effectively creates our own sky inside
the tube as if you are quietly flying at
200 thousand feet above sea level this
reduces drag so only the smallest amount
of electricity is needed to achieve
extraordinary speeds and creates enough
cost and energy efficient system than
high speed rail or airline transport
pipe loop 1 will be automated by the
most advanced systems in the world
allowing a safe and efficient journey
that's never delayed or overbooked
Hyperloop is the first form of public
transportation in over a hundred years
It can complete the journey of several hours
in a matter of minutes.
When Elon first presented this concept, many
people criticized it and said it is science
fiction.
However now Hyperloop is about to become a
reality.
Hyperloop has already completed its first
successful test ride.
Groups of students around the world are working
on Hyperloop.
However, the world first commercial Hyperloop
will be launched in Abu Dhabi by the next
year
we're very
excited to premiere our virgin Hyperloop
one passenger experience at the dubai
world expo 2012 we know that our system
will be the backbone of the smart
mobility revolution and expo visitors
will be the very first to see this
the experience will give future customers
the chance to interact with the pods
which will mirror the experiences that
they're going to see in commercial
operations
The next one is a tunnel project
The tunnel project is about solving the traffic
issue we face in our day-to-day lives.
This is basically about the underground tunnel
for the traffic to pass at high speed.
okay what you're looking at here some
pretty incredible video of what Elon
Musk calls a product launch the
unveiling of his first tunnel came last
night his first completed subterranean
route under Hawthorne California this is
one of these ventures it's called the
boring company as in Digg as in war and
as Michael joins me that's the whole
idea you really hated la traffic and who
doesn't so he decided to just
Electric cars of Tesla Motors.
An electric car is an old concept but how
Elon Musk is making them advanced is something
we should admire.
Tesla car is an amazing combination of electronics,
automobile, and software.
It is interesting how Tesla is making these
electric cars mainstream.
Tesla has a network of charging station where
Tesla owners can charge their car for free.
Tesla has built more than 1200 supercharger
stations with 10000 superchargers around the
world.
99 percent of the United States population
is now within 150 miles of a supercharger.
Tesla car can travel more than 200 miles in
a single charge.
It means you can travel the whole United States
by road without even spending a single dollar.
Tesla developed this supercharging
technology which is the most advanced
charging technology in the world this is
something that allows you to make a
brief stop at one of our Tesla
supercharger stations the charger caught
very quickly and be on your way
something that's unique about the
supercharger is that it's free it's not
just free now it's free forever the
number of Tesla super charging stations
is increasing dramatically by the end of
next month we will have triple the
number of stations since the beginning
of the year within six months we
recovered most of the major metro areas
from north america a year from now we'll
have covered 80 percent of the north
american population and within two years
over ninety eight percent so by buying a
Tesla you essentially have free
long-distance travel throughout the
country forever
Tesla’s cheapest model tesla model three
is priced at 35000 dollars.
Let me tell you an interesting story about
electric cars in Norway.
Norway is full of teslas.
Video of vox borders
In Norway, Tesla holds a record for the most
number of cars sold in a single month.
So, why Norway is full of Teslas?
99% of Norway’s electricity comes from hydropower,
which is like dams.
So, they have really clean cheap energy which
can be used to power these electric cars.
In addition, Norway’s government gives incentives,
subsidies and many free services to encourage
people to buy an electric car.
People get free parking, They get to drive
on HOV lane which has very less traffic.
People who have electric cars in Norway get
a tax deduction on their income tax.
In addition, People don’t have to pay any
registration fees to buy electric cars and
companies like Tesla don’t have to pay sales
tax in Norway.
There are literally thousands of supercharges
available in Norway for people to charge their
electric cars for free.
within the
next 12 months you're gonna be seen many
of these not only in Norway but also in
the rest of Europe enabling customers to
drive all over Europe free of charge
The question is why the government does all
this.
Norway is a huge producer of oil and gas and
they sell that to other countries and generate
good revenue.
They use the revenue they get from oil for
funding these subsidies for electric cars.
Norway sells their own oil to others because
they don’t want the pollution, Norway is
determined to establish healthy pollution-free
society but the irony is - this is all dependent
on the oil money they get from other countries.
Now let see the next invention
The solar city.
Elon Musk is not a founder of solar city however,
he is the biggest shareholder of solar city.
Lyndon Rive and Peter Rive are the founders
of SolarCity.
SolarCity is the largest solar service provider
in the united states.
SolarCity markets manufactures and installs
residential and commercial solar panels in
the US.
All the supercharger stations of Tesla are
solar powered with the help of SolarCity.
Tesla owns SolarCity.
Tesla is planning to disconnect tesla superchargers
from electricity grid completely in the coming
years.
The next one is the gigafactory.
Gigafactory is what Elon musk calls – Giant
Machine that builds a machine
Tesla’s gigafactory makes everything that
tesla sales – Batteries, Home Storage, Solar
panels and of course electric cars.
Gigafactory is large enough to house 107 NFL
football fields.
According to Elon Musk’s calculation if
we have 100 gigafactories around the world
we can solve the world's energy problem.
Gigafactory with the help of Panasonic also
produces lithium-ion batteries.
All Tesla cars have lithium-ion battery packs.
Now here is an amazing example of basic economics
by Elon musk – From the beginning, Tesla
manufactured more than eighty percent of the
components they need but they could not manufacture
batteries.
Manufacturing batteries at a competitive price
is very difficult.
The largest three manufacturers of batteries
Panasonic, BYD and LG combined make 63 percent
of the world’s batteries.
Tesla has always bought batteries from Panasonic
at the cost of about 200 dollars per kilowatt-hours.
But that means tesla’s smallest battery
pack version of 50 kwhrs costs ten thousand
dollars just in components.
When you are trying to manufacture a thirty
thousand dollar car ten thousand dollar is
a significant cost that can be reduced if
Tesla starts manufacturing their own batteries.
Therefore, Tesla and Panasonic made a deal
and now in a joint venture, they mass-produce
these batteries at Tesla’s gigafactory.
Now isn’t that an amazing example Elon Musk’s
basic Economics.
Elon Musk believes in making his products
accessible to middle-class.
That is why he constantly tries to bring down
the prices of his products at his both companies
Tesla and SpaceX.
