Tesla's master plan is here and it's not really anything new - Roadshow

The Hyperloop might be a few years away, but Elon Musk sure is good at building ol' fashioned hype trains. The Tesla CEO unveiled his second 'master plan' tonight, and to be honest, while it's a good plan that takes many things into account, it's not necessarily...novel.

His new master plan, per his blog post, starts off with creating solar-panel roofs with "seamlessly integrated battery storage," which involves merging Tesla and SolarCity, a company which Tesla has made a bid to acquire. His first part of the plan basically involves merging the two companies.

Next, he wants to expand Tesla's footprint to cover "the major forms of terrestrial transport," which involves a "future compact SUV" and a "new kind of pickup truck." He mentions expanding electric vehicles to include heavy-duty trucks and methods of urban transportation. Both, he claims, are in development, and he believes the Tesla Semi (yes, that's what he called it) will be "really fun to operate."

That part of his plan hinges on the third part, which involves further developments to Tesla's semi-autonomous systems, eventually evolving into full autonomy. He wants to continue to utilize fleet leaing on a massive scale to speed development.

The blog post posits that the world will be ready to accept autonomous vehicles after they've driven 6 billion collective miles. Based on his estimate of fleet leaing taking place at 3 million miles per day, it should take about 2,000 days for that to become reality, or about five and a half years from now.

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