Books and writing
The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me): Company blog post (2006)
Tesla. His first public plan for Tesla. Build a high-margin sports car. Use the money to build a more affordable car. Use that money to build an even more affordable one. The aim was a sustainable energy economy.
Not a Tesla App: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV · GIGAZINE: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV (3 September 2025)
Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species: Talk at the International Astronautical Congress (2016)
SpaceX. His blueprint for a permanent and self-sustaining human presence on Mars, given at the International Astronautical Congress in September 2016. He set out the technical problems to solve and possible architectures for sustaining humans on Mars. He updated it a year later in Adelaide as Making Life Multiplanetary.
SpaceX: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (27 September 2016) · SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary (29 September 2017) · Wikipedia: Colonization of Mars
Master Plan, Part Deux: Company blog post (2016)
Tesla. The sequel ten years on. It widened the plan from cars to an integrated energy system with solar power and batteries at home and at grid scale.
Not a Tesla App: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV · GIGAZINE: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV (3 September 2025)
Master Plan Part 3: Investor Day presentation and paper (2023)
Tesla. Unveiled at Tesla’s Investor Day on 1 March 2023. A technical case for how the world could scale to a fully sustainable energy economy.
Tesla: 2023 Investor Day (1 March 2023) · Not a Tesla App: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV · GIGAZINE: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV (3 September 2025)
Master Plan Part IV: Sustainable abundance (2025)
Tesla. Published on 1 September 2025. It joins Tesla’s manufacturing with autonomy to bring AI into the physical world. It lists five principles including that growth in one area need not mean decline in another. eWeek found it vague with fewer specific goals than the plan before it.
Tesla: Master Plan Part IV (1 September 2025) · GIGAZINE: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV (3 September 2025) · Not a Tesla App: Tesla unveils Master Plan Part IV · eWeek: Tesla’s Master Plan Part IV is short on specifics (2 September 2025)
Elon Musk in conversation with Walter Isaacson: The Builders with Walter Isaacson (about him) (2026)
Kaleidoscope. Not written by Musk. Isaacson wrote the 2023 authorised biography of Musk. He opened his series The Builders with him in October 2026. They discuss regrets over DOGE, robots and the national debt and the politics on X.
The Builders with Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk (20 October 2026) · Wikipedia: Views of Elon Musk
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