ELON MUSK SAYS HE’S ‘DYING’ TO MAKE A SUPERSONIC ELECTRIC PLANE

Elon Musk has said he's “death” to expand beyond motors and trucks with Tesla and build an electric-powered supersonic jet.

The planes could use vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) generation to upward push to a high altitude, earlier than the use of battery-powered propulsion to attain speeds in extra of one,236km/h (768mph).

The polymath billionaire stated the best component preventing him from developing the following-era plane is his present-day workload.
Mr. Musk presently heads two multi-billion-dollar agencies – SpaceX and Tesla – in addition to neurotech startup Neuralink and tunnel-digging challenge The Boring Company. He is also the co-founder of the synthetic intelligence research laboratory OpenAI and the father of six youngsters.

“I’m so dying to do a supersonic, electric-powered VOTL [sic] jet, but adding greater paintings will make my mind explode,” he tweeted on Thursday, the use of emojis for the final phrases.

It is not the first time Mr. Musk has spoken of his ambition to layout an electric jet, having formerly particular a concept during one in all his appearances at the Joe Rogan podcast.

“I have a layout for a plane,” he said. “The interesting element to do could be some type of electric powered vertical takeoff and touchdown, supersonic jet.”

The concept might use two distinct propulsion systems: one to lift the aircraft off the crowd and into the sky, the opposite to propel the craft forward at supersonic speeds.

“The interesting thing about an electric plane is that you want to go as high as possible but you need a certain energy density in the battery pack because you have to overcome gravitational potential energy,” he said.

“Once you’ve conquered gravitational capacity energy and you’re at an excessive altitude, the power you use in cruise could be very low, after which you may recapture a huge part of your gravitational ability energy on the way down.

“The better you cross, the quicker you'll pass for the equal amount of power. And at a certain altitude, you could cross supersonic with less energy-in keeping with-mile – pretty lots much less electricity in step with mile – than a plane at 35,000 ft.”
In 2013, Mr. Musk got here up with any other concept for a new kind of shipping referred to as the Hyperloop. Without the capacity to paintings on it himself, he wrote a whitepaper for the 1,000kph vacuum tube pods, which different startups then used to expand their personal versions of it.

Mr. Musk ultimately funded competitions to inspire its development, with the desire that Hyperloop networks could offer an eco-friendly and greater efficient opportunity to plane tour.