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Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok: What Electric Mobility Buyers Should Watch

Elon Musk has quietly bought APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines totaling more than 1 GW of generation capacity. The self-styled champion of a “solar electric economy” now owns a fossil fuel power company — and he’s buying it to feed the e

Published 2026-07-14Updated 2026-07-154 min read

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