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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Explainer | Why would Musk merge SpaceX and Tesla?

Elon Musk believes a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is a good idea, he said on Tuesday, publicly backing an idea that would create one of the most valuable companies in the world, worth about $3.5 trillion.

While electric-vehicle maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX were once seen as largely separate businesses, the lines between them have blurred as Musk expands into artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, satellite communications, and computing infrastructure, including data centers on Earth and potentially in orbit.

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