Explainer-Why would Musk merge SpaceX and Tesla?

By Joe Brock Oct 21 (Reuters) Elon Musk believes a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is a good idea, he said on Tuesday, publicly backing an idea that would create one of the most valuable companies in the world, worth about $3.5 trillion. While electric-vehicle maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX were once seen as largely separate businesses, the lines between them have blurred ​as Musk expands into artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, satellite communications, and computing infrastructure, including data centers on Earth and ‌potentially in orbit. Here s what a potential merger could mean: WHY WOULD MUSK DO THIS? A merger would create a single company at the center of Musk s long-term vision: an integrated technology and manufacturing empire spanning AI, energy, robotics, communications, and transportation on Earth and beyond. I do think there s a lot of merit to combining the companies as we are pretty much in the superintelligence singularity, and there s a