Elon Musk has a much larger fortune than Carlos Slim. Photos: @elonrmuskk / Cuartoscuro.com

Elon Musk, the second richest person in the world, is also the richest person in the UNITED STATES. According to data from the American magazine specializing in financial matters, Forbesthere Musk’s fortune is second only to that of Frenchman Bernard Arnault.

According to the website of Billionaires in real time from the same magazine, the fortune of Musk amounts to 201 thousand 900 million USD, while that of Bernard Arnault is 216 thousand 100 million dollars.

Elon Musk He owns various businesses that have made his fortune grow very noticeably, to the point of becoming the richest person in the world in 2022. However, some decisions made by the businessman have caused his fortune to decrease and last December been overtaken by Arnaud.

Elon Musk He is co-founder and director of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. As co-founder and CEO of You’re hereElon leads the design, engineering and manufacturing of electric vehicle products, batteries and solar energy products globally.

Elon Musk's fortune is second only to that of Frenchman Bernard Arnault.  (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)
Elon Musk’s fortune is second only to that of Frenchman Bernard Arnault. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

Since the creation of the company in 2003, the mission of You’re here was to accelerate the global transition to sustainable energy, according to its official website. Tesla’s first product, the sports car called Roadster, debuted in 2008, followed by the Model S sedan, which was introduced in 2012, and the Model X SUV, which was launched in 2015.

From then on, he presented various models, such as the cybertruck, which was introduced in 2019.

The South African-American businessman’s fortune is greater than that of any Mexican billionaire. For example, Carlos Slimwho is the richest person in Mexico, at 83, has a fortune that has made him the richest person not only in Mexico, but also in Latin America.

And it is that Slim has a fortune which, according to the site of Forbes Real Time Billionaires, Is equivalent to 89 thousand 100 million dollars, which positions him as the seventh richest person in the world. It means that Elon Musk has a fortune that exceeds that of Slim by 112 thousand 800 million dollars.

Carlos Slim is the seventh richest person in the world.  REUTERS/Raquel Cunha/File Photo
Carlos Slim is the seventh richest person in the world. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha/File Photo

The second richest person in the world, Elon Musk, for a few months he gave signs that he would be looking to invest in Mexico. Although the Mexican entity in which he would seek to establish a Tesla electric car factory, which he owns, which will produceto 20 million of its vehicles by 2023it is rumored that the chosen entity would be the Northern state of Nuevo León.

The journalist Mario Maldonado, In his column for this Wednesday, February 15, entitled Musk and Tesla go to the Netherlands, despite presidential lobbyingNote that Elon Musk and his group of advisers have already decided to set up the automobile production plant Tesla in Nuevo Leon, so on March 1, the announcement would be made official.

The investment, according to Maldonadoit would be $10 billion, a very large sum of money. The decision to locate the factory in Nuevo León, according to the columnist, could only change due to a relentless strategy of the presidential government Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, for having tried to take advantage of this complex as a detonator of the Philip Angeles International Airport (AIFA).

The large sum of money that Musk will invest in the country for his new electric car factory is such that even It exceeds the fortunes of several of the businessmen who are in the top 10 richest people in Mexico. In fact, according to the latest listing from the American magazine specializing in financial matters, Forbes, only three Mexican billionaires would exceed that amount of money in fortune. It is Carlos Slimthe richest person in Mexico, who has a fortune of $81.2 billion; German Larrea, who according to Forbes he has an accumulated fortune of 30 thousand 850 million dollars; followed by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of companies such as TV Azteca and Grupo Salinas, with a fortune of 12,450 million dollars.

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