Musk sees Tesla as an energy company - plus cars

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Model X launch event in Fremont, Calif. SAN FRANCISCO – Tesla is known for making an elite 100,000 electric sedan. Well watch out automakers, Elon Musk just announced his company will be pursuing small SUVs, a pickup truck and even larger scale commercial trucks in a bid to revolutionize transportation as we know it. That bombshell was just part of Musk's long-touted Tesla "Master Plan: Part Deux," which outlined a strategy that pivots the company from a builder of niche automobiles to a producer of a broad range of passenger and commercial vehicles that eschew fossil fuel. Also noted in the plan, which Musk published on the company's website late Wednesday, is the company's more well-known pursuit of the consumer solar business through its planned acquisition of SolarCity.