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Tesla's Plan For World Domination Includes Buses and Semis
• WiredElon Musk, a man not known for subtlety or lack of ambition, has a plan to dominate the transportation sector. He doesn't call it that, of course. He gave it the far more benign name Master Plan, Part Deux.
Beyond creating a vertically integrated company that builds electric vehicles, batteries to store the power to propel them, and the solar panels to generate that power, he wants to create whole new vehicle lineups. Some of them sound like they're in advanced stages of development.
The plan, which Musk posted to the Tesla Motors blog on Wednesday afternoon, comes a decade after Part One, which essentially laid out the company's plan to make boatloads of money with the Model S so it could produce the more affordable Model 3. Having crossed those things off his to-do list—while also outfitting an automobile factory, a battery factory, and, oh, running SpaceX and Solar City—Musk has moved on to the second phase of his plan.
Even as the company scrambles to produce the Model 3 sedan that Musk remains convinced will bring EVs to the masses, Tesla Motors, according to the Master Plan, Part Deux, sees itself creating a compact SUV and "a new kind of pickup truck." Beyond that, Musk says, "there are two other types of electric vehicle needed: heavy-duty trucks and high passenger-density urban transport."