In 2017, Norway set a goal of eliminating sales of fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2025. At the time it seemed like little more than a feel-good fantasy to soften the image of a government led by Erna Solberg, a conservative advocate of oil production who’d earned the sobriquet “Iron Erna.” But as the deadline approaches, it…
On the afternoon of Election Day, Elon Musk stopped by his polling place in South Texas, then headed to one of his private planes, bound for what he hoped would be a victory party for Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. On the way, Musk held an impromptu political rally. He…
This is the second episode of Citizen Elon, a miniseries within the Elon, Inc.podcast. Listen to the first episode and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and the Bloomberg Terminal. Elon Musk announced his support for Donald Trump on July 13, minutes after the attempt on Trump’s life at a rally in Pennsylvania. Since then, the…
When Meg Whitman was living in California and running first eBay Inc. and then HP Inc., the idea that Africa had some role to play in her businesses rarely crossed her mind. “I literally thought about Africa 1% of my time,” she says. Such inattention is common at US tech companies, which generally decided that…
This is the first episode of Citizen Elon, a miniseries within the Elon, Inc. podcast. Listen and subscribe to Elon, Inc. on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and the Bloomberg Terminal. At the center of the 2024 election is a kind of mystery. Elon Musk—who as recently as a few months ago seemed to deny that he…