Elon Musk throws killer opening Texas party, reveals updated prototypes, plans for self-driving ‘robotaxi’

Looking more like a rock star than a billionaire, Elon Musk was welcomed by a roaring crowd at his new $1.1 billion Gigafactory in Austin, Texas where he held a “Cyber Rodeo” on Thursday in a building the size of three Pentagons, boasting that it could hold “194 billion hamsters.”

“According to our calculations, you can fit 194 billion hamsters into this building,” Musk told a crowd of thousands. The facility took two years to build.

“If you put building on its side, it’s taller than the Burj Khalifa — that’s to scale,” Musk commented.

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