The launch and ascent of Starship serial number 8 (SN8) were successful, but as the engines appeared to reignite for landing, the vehicle flipped back to vertical and then slammed into the ground, Xinhua reported.
Revealing this for the first time during an interview for The Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council summit, Musk said: "California has been winning for a long time, and I think they're taking it for granted".
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Monday put the Tesla chief executive with a $127.9 billion fortune above Gates at $127.7 billion for the first time.
In a chat with one of his followers on Twitter who asked why is Xpeng using LiDAR technology which is a big deviation from copying Tesla, Musk replied: "They have an old version of our software & don't have our NN inference computer".
The requirement of replacing the engines became apparent after an investigation into the aberrant behaviour of the Falcon 9 rocket observed during a recent non-NASA mission launch attempt, Space.com reported on Wednesday.
Unlike conventional cars that use internal combustion engines, electric cars are solely powered by lithium ion batteries, so the battery performance defines the car's overall performance.
Tesla also produced 145,036 vehicles during the third quarter -- a huge increase over the 82,272 vehicles that were made during the second quarter this year amid pandemic.
According to a TechCrunch report, the Boring Company may miss out on more than $13 million of its construction budget if it fails to shuttle as many people as promised with the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop.
In February 2018, SpaceX launched its reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle -- Falcon Heavy for the first time along with a cherry-red Tesla Roadster with a mannequin called "Starman" behind the wheel.
Musk revealed his plans to bring Tesla cars to India in his response to a Twitter post that asked about the progress on Tesla's planned entry into India.
