If this 2017 has been a great year for Elon Musk, everything indicates that the next twelve months will be too. The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX has different projects underway that we will see. We begin this review of Musk's plans for 2018 with the new promise he has just made: build an electric pickup truck.
The Australian businessman seems to be very clear about his New Year's resolutions and not wanting to leave the chance to take advantage of these holidays to continue innovating and thinking about new projects. So, what are Elon Musk's plans for 2018?
Through a message posted on his Twitter account, Musk has advanced the plans of the electric pickup truck. A vehicle that will arrive just after the Model Y, a small SUV, which will be launched between 2019 and 2020. Although we will not see the final result until then, we are sure that over the coming months we will know more details of this new project , mentioned for the first time in 2013.
"I've had the basic elements of design / engineering in my mind for almost five years, I'm dying to build it," the entrepreneur confessed in response to a user's request about when an electric pickup truck would arrive. Thanks to the details he has shared, we have been able to know that it will be of a size comparable to that of the Ford F-150 truck.
Not only that. During the next year a thorough revision of the Tesla Model 3, the predecessor of the Model Y that we met last July, will be carried out. Among other things, the function that alerts our relatives when the vehicle comes home will be improved.
roject of an electric van, Elon Musk's plans for 2018 are also others. The answers to the requests of the users give us an idea of what we will see over the next twelve months:
Improve Bluethooth connectivity for the phone in Tesla cars.
Important advances in Artificial Intelligence. It is worth remembering that he has come to describe it as responsible for the end of Humanity.
Improve the map and navigation system.
Recognition of traffic signals.
Turn on the heating remotely.
Go one step further in security, for example that the cameras of the car serve to record in case of theft.
Innovate in the production of clean electricity with solar panels and batteries.
To these plans it is necessary to add the expected release of SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy, which has been delayed several times. Also the advances of reaching the Moon or traveling to Mars.
