“Well, it’s important to say that what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to climate change anyone’s ever made,” mentioned Mr Gates. “And you know, underestimating Elon is not a good idea.”
However, the Microsoft co-founder, who is presently worth more than $130 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, added that even though Tesla was undertaking excellent work on “easy stuff, like passenger cars”, tackling climate modify would need concentrate on other industries.
“We’re basically not doing enough on the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat,” he mentioned, according to CNBC. “And sadly, the things people think about – the electricity, passenger cars – are a third of the problem. So we have to work on the two-thirds. And if all you pay attention to is those short-term metrics, not the green premiums across the board, then you miss out on what is the longest lead time, which is the hard stuff.”
Mr Gates’ comments came right after Elon Musk’s look on Joe Rogan’s podcast, exactly where he was dismissive of the Microsoft co-founder’s information of electric cars. “He didn’t know what he was talking about,” Elon Musk mentioned when asked to react to Mr Gates’ comments about electric cars not getting excellent sufficient to carry heavy cargo more than lengthy distances, according to Electrek.
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During his look on Ms Swisher’s Sway podcast, Bill Gates added that in contrast to Elon Musk, he was not interested in travelling to space. He mentioned that he was “not a Mars person” and would rather devote his cash on offering vaccines via his foundation.
“I’m not going to pay a lot of money because my foundation can buy measles vaccines and save a life for $1,000. So anything I do, I always think, OK, I could spend that $1,000 buying measles vaccine,” mentioned Bill Gates. His stand on the topic is in direct contrast to Elon Musk’s, who has repeatedly spoken about sending humans to Mars.
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“About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth & half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens & we destroy ourselves,” he mentioned in a tweet from 2018 – a pledge he reiterated in December when he mentioned “I want to be able to contribute as much as possible to the city on Mars.”
Last year, Elon Musk had taken a dig at Bill Gates for shopping for a Porsche as an alternative of a Tesla.