rlex Posted April 1, 2021 Posted April 1, 2021 Elon Musk announced Thursday morning the takeover of his main rivals. Tesla will have a virtual monopoly on land vehicles. Elon Musk's impromptu maneuver will transform the automobile. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX has announced that he has taken control of many global industry giants after an unprecedented stock market raid , funded by the massive use of bitcoin , a cryptocurrency whose price has ignited these last years. "I got'em" ("I got them") he posted on his Twitter account overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Volkswagen, Toyota, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, General Motors, Kia-Hyundai, Ford, Stellantis, Geely, Dongfeng, Daimler, SAIC or even BMW are now the personal properties of the American captain of industry. Tesla virtual monopoly In an email sent around 3 am to employees of his car brand, Elon Musk detailed his plans for historic manufacturers: “My idea is simple. Tesla will take care of cars on Earth. The rest goes into space ”. In this document, he mentions in particular the end of the assembly of vehicles within the brands under his control "around 2028" . Renault, Peugeot, Volkswagen or Toyota will stop producing cars before the end of the decade, according to this message, the subject of which is: "Masterplan: Part Quatre". The email goes on to say, “Frankly, if it's to end up like Nokia or Motorola, they might as well just move on. We may keep Ferrari ”. Only a few "small" automakers have escaped the appetite of the boss of Tesla : Caterham, Gordon Murray Automotive, Lotus and McLaren. The self-proclaimed “Technoking” owned a McLaren F1 designed by Gordon Murray and Lotus supplied the chassis for the first Tesla Roadsters in the late 2000s. Lancia - which is part of the Stellantis group - will continue its solo activities and the marketing of its Ypsilon in Italy until at least 2050. The boss of Tesla also plans the release of a compact Model 2 and a Model 1 city car to compensate for the gradual disappearance of competition to its models. A simpler-designed Model 0 will be marketed in emerging markets. Carlos Tavares on the Moon “After 2030, all the resources, hands and brains present in these historic builders will be devoted to the exploration of space. There will be no layoffs ”, continues the e-mail signed by Elon Musk, outlining the outlines of a program called THE HuGe N 'SeriOUS SPACE PROJECT, YEAH COS' WHYnOT? . As early as 2016, the 49-year-old businessman announced his desire to work to make human beings "a multi-planetary species". The first step will be the sending of the first teams to the Moon in order to build a permanent scientific camp there . Elon Musk gives more details: “To get there I need guys and women who are cold-blooded. And there are traditional builders. This is why I chose to send Carlos Tavares to the Moon ” . The boss of the Stellantis group (Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Fiat, Jeep, etc.) will share his exploration module with Luca de Meo , CEO of the Renault Group since the summer of 2020. "It is not hot hot" says a close to the latter, contacted by Auto Moto. Obstacles in sight The hostile stock market operation should still attract the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), policeman of the American stock market. But also the wrath of the Department of Justice, responsible for ensuring free competition. In a press conference, the outgoing anti-trust division general counsel Makan Delrahim said: “You cannot create a monopoly on a sector as strategic as the automobile overnight. And you can't bend your competition like that either. We will examine this whole matter carefully. It smells like rotten fish ”.
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