Elon Musk says 'I have too much work on my plate' - Reuters

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk said connected Monday helium was moving "at the implicit astir amount...from greeting til night, 7 days a week" erstwhile asked astir his caller acquisition of Twitter and his enactment of automaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O).

"I person excessively overmuch enactment connected my sheet that is for sure," Musk said by videolink to a concern league connected the sidelines of the G20 acme successful Bali.

Musk is main enforcement of some companies and besides runs rocket steadfast SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling steadfast the Boring Company. Wearing a batik garment sent by the organizers, helium appeared connected surface lit by candles, explaining that helium was speaking from a spot that had conscionable mislaid power.

Tesla investors interest that Musk, a self-confessed "nanomanager" who has been personally progressive successful working-level decisions from car styling to proviso concatenation issues, is distracted astatine a captious clip for the world’s largest electrical conveyance maker.

Tesla's shares person halved successful worth since aboriginal April, erstwhile helium disclosed helium had taken a involvement successful Twitter. His Tesla stock sales, including different $4 cardinal past week to bring his Twitter-related income to $20 billion, person added to the pressure.

When asked astir the complexity of concern proviso chains "decoupling" from China and the risks from Russia's penetration of Ukraine, Musk returned to however engaged helium was.

Responding to an reflection that galore concern leaders successful Asia wanted to beryllium the "Elon Musk of the East," Musk said: "I'd beryllium cautious what you privation for. I'm not definite however galore radical would really similar to beryllium me. They would similar to beryllium what they ideate being me, which is not the aforesaid happening arsenic really being me. The magnitude that I torture myself is adjacent level, frankly."

Musk besides said helium wanted to spot Twitter enactment much video and longer-form video truthful that contented creators could marque a surviving connected the platform, but did not supply details. His remarks were streamed unrecorded connected Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube.

Indonesia has been trying to unafraid a woody with Tesla connected artillery concern and perchance 1 for SpaceX to make a rocket motorboat site.

Musk made nary committedness to either of those but said Indonesia had a ample relation to play successful the electrical conveyance proviso concatenation and that it would marque consciousness "long term" for SpaceX to person aggregate motorboat points astir the globe.

It was not wide wherever Musk was during the Bali event. His idiosyncratic pitchy has remained successful Austin, Texas, Tesla's office since the weekend, according to @ElonJet, a Twitter relationship that tracks Musk's Gulfstream G650.

"I'm conscionable looking astatine this video and it's truthful bizarre," Musk said. "I'm sitting present successful the acheronian surrounded by candles."

Musk added helium believed that the system would marque the modulation to sustainable energy, adding it was "just a question of however agelong it takes." He said abstraction exploration should stay a precedence "so we tin recognize the quality of the beingness and our spot successful it."

"Maybe we'll find alien civilization oregon observe civilizations that existed millions of years ago, but we spot the ruins of past civilizations. I deliberation that would beryllium incredibly interesting," helium said.

Reporting by Leika Kihara; Writing by Kevin Krolicki; Editing by Edwina Gibbs

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