16 Dec 2021 Person of the Year: Elon Musk
Person of the Year: Elon Musk- Today Current Affairs
- Recently, Time magazine has named ‘Tesla’ and ‘Space-X’ CEO ‘Elon Musk’ as ‘Person of the Year’.
- The success of ‘Elon Musk’ can be gauged from the fact that in April this year, NASA was given a special contract sent his rocket company ‘Space-X’ to the Moon for the first time since 1972.
- Although electric vehicles accounted for just 0.43 percent of all vehicles in operation in the US in the first half of this year, the Tesla company accounts for about two-thirds of the market share.
- Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Musk went to the US to join Stanford University as a PhD candidate, but soon left his PhD.
- He founded Internet mapping service ‘Zip2’ and e-payment Company ‘PayPal’, which was later sold to ‘Compaq’ and ‘Ebay’.
- Person of the Year is an annual issue of the United States news magazine and website ‘Time’ that designates a person, a group, an idea, or an object that has the most headlines during an entire year.
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