Everything he boasted about 17 years ago has come true, and this time he has opened a new chapter.

17 years ago, on August 2, 2006, a 35-year-old young entrepreneur wrote four wishes on his Twitter: 1. Build an electric sports car; 2. Make money with Use the money earned to develop a car that people can afford; 3. Use the money earned to develop a car with an affordable price; 4. While performing the above three steps, provide sustainable energy. I believe everyone has guessed who he is. Yes, he is the "Iron Man" of Silicon Valley - Elon Musk.

Musk calls his plan the first chapter of the "Secret Grand Plan." Many people may not know that Musk was not the founder of Tesla at first. Can be considered an investor. Tesla was founded on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk only invested $6.5 million to support the development of the electric convertible Roadster.

In January 2005, the Roadster prototype was completed. Musk saw its "money making" ability, so he invested an additional US$9 million for further testing of the car. . Finally, in July 2006, Roadster welcomed a "blow-up of orders" upon its debut. Later, due to various problems such as suppliers and costs, Roadster had to face delayed delivery. It was at this time that he wrote the first chapter of "Secret Grand Plan".

Ten years have passed, and many people were not optimistic about Musk at first, thinking that he was bragging. But in just 10 years, he completed all the plans in the first chapter of the "Secret Grand Plan": he created the electric sports car Roadster; from the high-end Model S to the Model 3, he truly created a pure electric car that everyone can afford; Sustainable energy is achieved through solar cells. He did it without breaking his promise. So in 2016, Musk opened the second chapter of his "secret grand plan".

And Musk tweeted: "The main reason for 'Secret Vision' is to let people see that Tesla's vision and plans are not arbitrary. Tesla The ultimate goal is to build cars that most people can afford, not just for the rich, mainly to dispel people's objections to Tesla building sports cars.”

< p> The second chapter of the "Secret Grand Plan" is still divided into four aspects, and "four" may be his lucky number: 1. Build a solar roof and integrate energy storage batteries; 2. Expand the new energy vehicle product line to all major segments Market segmentation; 3. Develop driverless technology that is ten times safer than manual driving, and achieve rapid iteration through large-scale fleets; 4. Let the vehicle make money for you by sharing it when it is idle.

From the current point of view, it seems that only the fourth of these four wishes has not been realized, and the others have been completed: Powerwall and rooftop photovoltaic technology and Tesla Electric power retail plan, It has realized the storage and sale of energy; enriched the market segments, Model Y, truck Semi and pickup truck Cybertruck; needless to say, autonomous driving, although it is now very controversial, has been widely popularized in North America. Although Musk's behavior is incomprehensible on some things, he still has a certain level of implementation in terms of plan implementation.

On February 11, Model X Plaid made its debut in Beijing. In the Workshop at that time, it was also mentioned that Tesla was about to start its third chapter. Unexpectedly, it was announced so soon. On March 2, 2023, Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day event was held at the Texas Gigafactory in the United States. Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the third chapter of Tesla's "Secret Ambition" on the spot - a comprehensive shift to sustainable energy, with the goal of achieving 100% sustainable energy by 2050.

This time Musk has a new idea. The third chapter of the "Secret Grand Plan" can be broken down into five core aspects: a comprehensive shift to electric vehicles; , use heat pumps in commercial and industrial fields; use high-temperature energy storage and green hydrogen energy in industrial fields; apply sustainable energy on aircraft and ships; use renewable energy to drive existing power grids.

At the event, Musk showed a PPT, the data on it read: "240TWh energy storage, 30TW renewable power generation, 10 trillion U.S. dollars in manufacturing investment, Less than 1/2 of the energy required by the fuel economy, less than 0.2% of the renewable energy infrastructure footprint, sustainable energy investment equivalent to 10% of global GDP in 2022, 0 insurmountable resource challenges.” In layman’s terms. In other words, when these elements are in place, a sustainable energy economy may become a reality.

At the Investor Day event, Musk said: "We live on the earth and are investors of the earth. We must take action instead of blindly wishful thinking and believe that the earth can A spontaneous shift to a sustainable energy economy.

"Soon, Tesla will have another new Gigafactory, the Monterey Gigafactory in Mexico, which will be born. It will continue to work hard to increase global production capacity and achieve the growth goal of delivering 20 million electric vehicles in 2030. The new factory will produce the next generation platform. Models, other factories around the world will follow suit

At this investor day, Tesla revealed much more information than this: the electric pickup Cybertruck will be launched this year. When it comes out, humanoid robots can make robots. Cybertruck, humanoid robots and all future vehicles will switch to 48V architecture. The next generation of permanent magnet motors will not use rare earth materials at all, and the energy will be 100% sustainable by 2050... In the "accelerating world" On the road to "transforming to sustainable energy", Musk has turned the first and second chapters of the "Secret Ambition" from blueprints into reality, and is now about to start the third chapter.

In summary, aside from Musk’s “Mars immigration”, “brain machine” and his “played” tweets, we all see Tesla’s development in recent years.” When will Musk be able to fulfill the third chapter of "Secret Grand Plan"? At least he has been on the road of continuous exploration.

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