Anonymous ID: 53f590 April 18, 2020, 3:55 p.m. No.8843560   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3635

Automakers, Tesla and SpaceX Explore Working on Ventilators (techcrunch.com) 89

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:34PM from the assembly-lines dept.

"Just had a long engineering discussion with Medtronic about state-of-the-art ventilators," Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday. Medtronic tweeted that the talks also involved Tesla.

 

And TechCrunch notes that Musk tweeted on Friday that both Tesla and SpaceX employees are "working on ventilators…":

His confirmation on Twitter that both of the companies he leads are working on ventilators comes a day after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a direct plea to Musk to help alleviate a shortage at hospitals gearing up to combat COVID-19. It's unclear how many employees are working on the ventilators and which Tesla factory – it could be Buffalo, N.Y., Fremont, Calif., Sparks, Nev. or even Shanghai – has dedicated space to the project…

 

These Ventilators…may be for the Sky Event ?