Tesla main enforcement Elon Musk, the world's richest person, has been named 2021 idiosyncratic of the twelvemonth by Time magazine.
Time mag connected Monday named Tesla laminitis and abstraction entrepreneur Elon Musk arsenic its idiosyncratic of the year, capping a roller-coaster 2021 for the exertion magnate.
The brash South African-born 50-year-old with expansive ambition overtook space race rival and Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos to go the world's richest idiosyncratic this year.
In October his electrical car company's valuation soared supra a trillion dollars, and passim the twelvemonth his institution SpaceX has teamed up with US abstraction bureau NASA to motorboat assorted missions including smashing a rocket into an asteroid successful a trial tally for redirecting immoderate aboriginal Earth-bound abstraction rock.
"Person of the Year is simply a marker of influence, and fewer individuals person had much power than @elonmusk connected beingness connected Earth, and perchance beingness disconnected Earth too," tweeted Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal successful announcing the winner.
Musk has appeared ever-present successful American civilization successful caller years. He has amassed 66 cardinal Twitter followers and guest-hosted the famed late-night drama amusement Saturday Night Live successful May.
He speaks ambitiously astir his involvement successful colonizing Mars, and plans orbital flights adjacent twelvemonth arsenic portion of SpaceX's planned American instrumentality to the Moon.
And helium is known to determination markets and the worth of cryptocurrencies with a azygous tweet.
But his main socio-economic influence for present is with his groundbreaking electrical vehicles.
"Our intent with Tesla was ever that we would service arsenic an illustration to the car industry, and anticipation that they besides marque electric cars truthful that we tin accelerate the modulation to sustainable energy," Musk told Time successful an interrogation released with the Person of the Year announcement.
But outer abstraction is astatine the forefront of Musk's ambitions arsenic well.
"His extremity is to marque humanity a multi-planet species," Time contributor and writer Jeffrey Kluger said successful the video.
Time archetypal presented its Person of the Year grant successful 1927.
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