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2024-03-26 22:03:59

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2026-06

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26th of March, 2024

■ TESLA $TSLA ($177.67, +2.92%):

- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has awarded the 2024 Model Y 'top safety pick +.' The IIHS gives four possible scores in each category: Good, Acceptable, Marginal, and Poor. The Model Y earned a perfect "Good" score in every category but one; "Seat belts & child safety." It scored an "Acceptable" grade for this category. Pic by Yimu, Tesla China.

- Shortly after Elon emailed all Tesla employees to install and give new Tesla owners a Demo Drive of FSD 12, Tesla added a free month of FSD with the purchase of a Model S, X, or Y. Then Elon posted the following, "All US cars that are capable of FSD will be enabled for a one month trial this week." Someone is very confident about FSD. Price is still $12,000 or $199 a month.

- According to Italian media Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian Ministry of Business and Made in Italy has deepened the dialogue with Tesla for a possible factory to produce electric trucks and/or vans. Tesla has not confirmed this.

- Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) announced a partnership agreement with Tesla to offer financing starting at 1.79%. This will be done through ADIB’s EV financing program “ VOLT”. The partnership also provides Tesla buyers a free wall charger and complimentary home installation as part of the finance package until the 31st of March.

- "Day One at Tesla. It’s already mind blowing." Charles Qi (@charles_rqi), ex-Waymo, new Tesla FSD.

- Tesla is offering at home demo drives for Tesla owners that have mobile service appointments.

- Cathie Wood and ARK Invest purchased 133,334 shares of TSLA yesterday totaling approximately $28 million.

- Tesla Palo Alto has posted a job for a Cellular Systems Integration Engineer. The job description states Tesla is seeking a best in class connectivity experience for all Tesla Vehicles (S3XY and Cybertruck) and Optimus.. The role involves understanding internal customer requirements, planning and executing test procedures, rolling out ESIM seamlessly and reliable integration into Tesla’s private 5G network infrastructure. The private 5G network is the interesting part. Thoughts?

- Tesla China posted 13.2K insured registrations for the week of March 18-24. Going into the last week of the 1Q, Tesla China is sitting at 116.5K registrations, -25.6% QoQ and -5.0% YoY. Info via Gary Black (@garyblack00).

FLYOVERS:

Giga Mexico: Adrean (@AdreanCG), 25th of March, '24. In this flyover we see a little groundwork for the future overpass. The excavation work is in the median separating east and west bound traffic. It may possibly be prep work around an existing gas line due to the markers.

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■ SPACEX: 9

- Yesterday evening Falcon 9 Starlink 6-46 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is the eighth flight for the booster. It previously launched Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER, USSF-124, and four Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. 23 Starlinks were deployed. This was the 175th flight of a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.

- Lecturer Daniel Fox, who does the Space-2-Sea Holiday Voyages with William Shatner and Astronaut Scott Kelly, took this pic last night of Falcon 9 Starlink 6-46 onboard the cruise ship Seabourn Quest crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Countdown to 144 (29- Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 1 - Starship):

Launch 31! Wednesday, the 27th of March, at 7:30 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 7-18 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.
Launch 32! Friday, the 29th of March, at 5:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-45 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Launch 33! Saturday, the 30th of March at, 6:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Eutelsat 36D will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Eutelsat 36D is a multi-mission geostationary telecommunications satellite for Eutelsat, replacing and enhance capacity at 36° East, a key orbital slot for Eutelsat for TV broadcasting (DTH) and government services over Africa, Russia, and Europe. It has 70 Ku-band transponders, over five downlink beams, a steerable antenna, and expected to have an operational lifetime of more than 15 years. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- According to TomNTex (@TomNTex1) a Vegas LOOP permit was issued yesterday for "(UNLV TUNNEL 1) 4744 PARADISE TO LVCC CONNECTOR (PARADISE RD)." A permit was also issued to "INSTALL TEMPORARY FENCING FOR CENTRAL SURFACE STATION CONSTRUCTION." This lot has three buildings on it, but mostly open space. Awesome find Tom!

■ NEURALINK:

- Neuralink's Bliss Chapman (@chapman_bliss) wants you to apply at Neuralink. "Come work with me on next-generation implant firmware. Your work will help millions of people regain the ability to communicate with loved ones, return to work, play their favorite games, and one day pet their doggo again."

■ STARLINK:

- Starlink installer Barry Little had some unexpected guests on an install in rural Cumbria County, UK. "254Mbps start up speed. The bird on the right was definitely curious after closer inspection of the photo."

- Yesterday during the Dewan Rakyat session, Malaysian Minister of Communication, Fahmi Fadzil, stated his country is currently testing Direct-to-Cell from Starlink. The test in Malaysia will start with text messages, followed by voice calls and internet access.

- The Community Matters Partnership Project with RAISE and UK Connect Ltd gave local 9th grade students a STEM session in Advanced Wireless Technology via Starlink. Per UK Connect, "We're delighted that the students immersed themselves in cutting-edge wireless tech, exploring sentiment detection that revealed characteristics such as age, gender, and mood, and making a Teams call using Starlink. It's moments like these that fuel our passion for inspiring and educating..."

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■ X:

- X is hosting the X Developer Challenge from April 20th - 21st at X HQ in San Francisco. "Prove your dev skills & compete with other teams to build exciting new features on top of powerful APIs. Spend two days at X HQ building new features and experiences... X is excited to see what you can create. Come meet our engineers while you show off your ideas and learn more about what it's like to work at X. Who knows, participants may even be considered for open roles at X!" Registration starts now until the 8th of April. Must be 18 years or older, have no more than 4 people in 1 team, and be able to travel to X HQ.

- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is filing suit against Media Matters in an attempt to force them to turn over documents regarding their solicitation of donations to "bully" advertisers into pulling out of X.

- You can now add up to 256 members to a group chat on X.

- Premium hub is now live on iOS. Premium subscribers can now access and manage all their Premium features in one place. You can also pin it in your app's navigation for quicker access.

■ xAI:

- Per xAI's Eric Zelikman (@ericzelikman), "Give me your banned nodes, your unhealthy GPUs, your fragmented clusters, yearning to go brrr..."

■ ELON NEWS: N/A...

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SpaceX Starlink Anywhere Tumbler ($46)!