Elon Musk also wants to go beyond the sky with his famous company SpaceX
Your companies never tire of launching innovative and even revolutionary products, breaking sales and profit records, you become the richest man in the world, yet this is not enough for the president of your country, the world's greatest superpower, to like you, and even during the current war conflict this enmity makes headlines.
This is the case of rivalry between Elon Musk and American President Joe Biden; Elon Musk is often on the front pages of newspapers and appears on the list of current affairs. On Twitter, his name attracts the masses. It would not be an exaggeration to say that among the younger generation, almost everyone knows him or his companies. We are always looking to the future of technology, and cars are always the subject of speculation about what will be the next big innovation that will dictate the trends of global automobiles and flying cars. Probably the biggest technological evolution that people are waiting for are electric cars, cars that Tesla has. Other companies that produce electric cars have Tesla as a model to follow and have also copied Tesla without fear, from selling directly to the public to similar and very high prices at the beginning. However, it has even suffered for this reason, manufacturing extremely expensive cars far from the purchasing power of the masses. The company spent years making losses. Perhaps this was the price of innovation, but until now it has become more accessible in recent years, especially in 2017 when it launched its main model for the general population, the Tesla Model 3. It is the best-selling electric car of all time. The car was initially sold for the price of $1,000. $35,000, much more affordable than the first cars the company had launched in previous years, despite this, it was only in 2020 that the company made a profit, and from then on the sky was the limit for Elon Musk, or was it? No, it really wasn't!
Elon Musk also wants to go beyond the sky with his famous company Spacex. Spacex is widely known mainly for the Starlink project. The company even directed its satellites from this project to help people in conflict access the internet during the current war. But not only for that. Spacex is the only private company focused on space travel, which NASA trusts to take its own crew members off Earth and leave them at the International Space Station. It seems determined to conquer space with its commercial travel. NASA also rewarded Spacex with a multi-million dollar contract, beating Jeff Bezos' Blue to build the spacecraft that will take man back to the moon after more than 50 years with his companies taking off. Elon was elevated to the position of richest man in the world. Although the list of the richest people in the world changes quite quickly, he is always fighting for the first place. His main rival may be Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon.
Even with all these achievements and after achieving all the aforementioned milestones, Elon Musk does not have the admiration of US President Joe Biden. Despite having achieved a feat with his private company, sending three astronauts into Earth orbit and staying there for three days before returning to Earth, President Joe Biden did not congratulate him, nor did he even comment on the achievement, which is a major step forward for private aerospace companies in the United States. What makes Biden's disapproval worse is that the space mission was also linked to a fundraising effort that raised hundreds of millions of dollars for a children's cancer hospital, and several notable people congratulated him on the feat, from high-ranking NASA officials to his American adversary. The American president's silence did not go unnoticed. The specialist media criticized him for this, mainly highlighting the fact that the mission had good intentions, with the funds raised going to children with cancer.
Elon Musk is very different from Biden, he did not remain silent in the face of silence, and he not only did not comment on the president's disrespect, but he also provoked him on Twitter, he said the following: "about the American president, he must still be sleeping." A very common joke about Joe Biden, who many claim has a calm attitude, even with a very passive air in his speeches and actions, so much so that to make fun of his competitor's image during the 2020 presidential elections, Donald Trump nicknamed him "by in the sleep Biden", and even doubled down on his criticism of the president after this awkward situation, saying that Biden's government was not very friendly to him and that previous governments treated his business better, he mentioned the fact that former President Barack Obama visited SpaceX facilities during his government, and also said that former President Trump debates ideas with him in a friendly manner, but it exists in the past and even ironic about this rivalry is that Elon Biden and Biden have very similar ambitions and objectives, both for example strongly condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the field in which they have the most affinity of ideas is that of renewable energy as a way to replace the world's dependence on fossil fuels, the main way to reduce this dependence according to both would be with the growth of the electric car industry instead of gasoline-powered ones, according to him, every electric car in the world roads are a victory for the environment, a great coincidence still in the field of environmental preservation is that Musk financed a carbon capture competition on Earth to eliminate greenhouse gases from the Earth's atmosphere, worth one hundred million dollars, it is similar to President Biden, who announced a commitment during his campaign to finance research projects for carbon capture, Biden is also encouraging the production and popularization of electric vehicles, an unsuspecting person could easily think that Biden and Musk are the ideal pair but things are not like that, before Biden assumed the American presidency, Elon Musk revealed his support for the newly elected president and that he was very enthusiastic about the new government, the main reason for this excitement was that according to Elon himself, the new government would be very focused on climate change.
Elon Musk also revealed that he follows President Biden on Twitter to keep up with his every move, but that he even joked before Joe Biden's inauguration that he would ask his advisors to actually work with the government. He thought he would be reciprocated, but that didn't happen. Months after suffering a great disappointment, Joe Biden decided to discuss certain economic advances with leaders in the electric vehicle industry, such as General Motors and Ford, but without inviting Tesla to a meeting. This attitude by Biden was quite difficult to defend, after all, Musk owns the leading company by far in the electric and hybrid car sector, including one of Tesla's products and manufacturing plants that generates more money in the North American economy than the companies invited to the meeting by the president. Elon Musk made no effort to hide his discomfort at being ignored by the meeting, and commented on Twitter that he felt strange about what happened, but probably the big problem that generates the rivalry between Joe Biden is the fact that the businessman is totally against his employees being represented by unions, while General Motors and Ford are companies with unionized employees. We don't make a point of hiding that we appreciate them for that, despite the rivalry with the president of the world's biggest superpower, Musk's companies, both Tesla and SpaceX, continue to grow impressively, breaking their own revenue and profit records. Neither the sky nor the president seem to be the limit for Elon Musk.