Elon Musk is a person that I look up to. This because of his many achievements and successful projects in areas of my interest, such as Space Exploration, Sustainable Energy and Electric Vehicles.
Since he began working in these areas he has created several companies (some of them he already sold), and in this post I would like to focus on two of them, TESLA Motors (american electric car brand) and SolarCity (company that produces solar panels for many different uses).
Little time ago, Elon Musk announced, on behalf of SolarCity and Tesla Motors a project called “Solar roof”.
This project is presented as part of a solution to the increasing Carbon Dioxide levels in our atmosphere. A solution that Elon Musk has been trying to make possible by means of his companies and that can be divided in three crucial parts:
- Solar Roof
- Storage
- Transport
From these three parts, the last one (transport) has been being worked on since the creation of Tesla Motors. The idea behind it is simple, making electric cars as efficient and appealing to the public as possible. This would possibly start making the interest in more polluting cars decrease and, in an ideal scenario, make them not needed in our society.
The remaining two topics from the list above have been recently presented and explained to the public (presentation which can be found in the video below).