2025

Starlink links its satellites with thousands of laser connections — moving data through space — and now provides fast in-flight Wi-Fi on dozens of airlines.

After the Vegas Loop, The Boring Company won approval for a Nashville “Music City Loop” and a Dubai Loop agreement — extending its underground transit beyond Las Vegas.

X introduced X Money, a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments service with Visa as its first partner — a step toward Musk’s “everything app” vision.

Tesla’s Shanghai Megafactory began producing grid-scale Megapack batteries in 2025 — its first energy plant outside the US — adding tens of GWh of annual storage capacity.

SpaceX’s private Fram2 mission carries four astronauts into a polar orbit — the first humans ever to fly directly over Earth’s north and south poles.

SpaceX is the only fully certified provider for the most demanding US national-security launches and won the largest share of the latest Space Force awards.

On Starship Flight 9, SpaceX launched a previously-flown Super Heavy booster — the first reuse of the largest rocket stage ever built, with most of its Raptor engines reflown.

Beyond its first patient, Neuralink’s “Telepathy” implant has let multiple paralysed and ALS patients control devices — and even communicate — by thought.

Tesla passed 8 million cumulative vehicles produced during 2025 — a scale that seemed impossible when the near-bankrupt company was building a few thousand Roadsters.

Tesla begins a paid autonomous Robotaxi service in Austin and unveils the purpose-built Cybercab.

By mid-2025 SpaceX’s fleet of Crew Dragon capsules had flown 18 crewed missions carrying about 70 people — restoring and then expanding US human spaceflight.

xAI releases Grok 4, the first model to break 50% on Humanity’s Last Exam, vaulting a ~2-year-old lab into the front rank of AI.

SpaceX and T-Mobile launch Direct-to-Cell service, letting standard phones connect via satellite to eliminate dead zones.

Surgeons at Toronto’s University Health Network perform Neuralink’s first brain-implant surgeries outside the United States, under the CAN-PRIME trial.

Tesla opened its first complete V4 Supercharger site in 2025, with new cabinets enabling up to ~500 kW for cars (and far more for the Semi).

xAI launches Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia positioned as a Wikipedia alternative, debuting with nearly 900,000 articles.

In November 2025 Tesla shareholders approved a 100%-performance-based pay package for Musk that pays out only if the company hits extraordinary value, profit and product milestones.

Tesla began deploying its Optimus humanoid robots inside its own factories on real production tasks — the first step toward mass-producing a general-purpose robot.

SpaceX’s valuation reached roughly $400 billion in 2025 and was reported heading toward an $800 billion secondary sale — making it America’s most valuable private company.

In 2025 SpaceX launched 165 times and lifted more than 80% of all the mass humanity put into orbit.

SpaceX conducted around 165 orbital launches in 2025 — a sixth straight record year, and more than every other country and company on Earth combined.

The first human spaceflight to fly a polar orbit, passing directly over both of Earth’s poles — a route never before flown with a crew.

The first launch using a flight-proven Super Heavy booster — the first reuse of the largest rocket stage ever built — though the booster was lost later in flight.

States sued alleging Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency wielded officer-level authority without Senate confirmation. A judge allowed the suit to proceed in May 2025, finding the claims plausible.

Multiple suits challenged DOGE's access to sensitive agency data and its role in shutting down USAID. One court said DOGE/Musk 'likely violated the Constitution in multiple ways' and a judge halted the USAID shutdown; another declined to block DOGE access at seven agencies.

The SEC sued Musk for allegedly failing to disclose his accumulation of a 5%-plus Twitter stake within the required 10-day window in 2022, claiming the delay let him keep buying shares cheaply and underpay by roughly $150M.

A Miami federal jury found Tesla partially responsible for a 2019 fatal crash in which a driver using Enhanced Autopilot ran through an intersection. The award totaled ~$243M (including $200M punitive).