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(FREE) Want to Know what's happening with Elon's companies today? (Patreon)

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2024-08-07 20:50:30
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7th of August, 2024

"Time to air the dirty laundry!" - Elon, 7th of August, 2024

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■ TESLA $TSLA ($191.76, -4.43%):

- きのぴーです@広島 (@kinop37p), "become one with the dragon."

- In Tesla's Vehicle Safety Report Q2 2024, drivers using Autopilot or FSD averaged one crash for every 6.88 million miles driven. Those not using Autopilot or FSD averaged one crash for every 1.45 million miles driven. Compare this to the NHTSA and FHWA (from 2022) that shows in the United States there was an automobile crash approximately every 670,000 miles.

- Tesla Malaysia has set up a Pop-up store with Optimus, two Model 3s, and a Model Y at the Pavilion Kuala Lumpur Centre Court. They will be there until the 11th of August from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

- Orlando Ordoñez, Director of Engineering at Solar Alternatives, sharing progress with their latest solar project that involves a 58.32 kWp PV system coupled with 8 Tesla Powerwalls!

- Yesterday the San Francisco-based solar energy company Sunrun announced a partnership with Tesla Energy's Tesla Electric Texas that will allow Texas residents to receive compensation for sharing energy from their Powerwalls to help stabilize the grid. So far this includes 150 customers and will be compensated $400 annually per Powerwall for participation this year.

- Australian Shipbuilder Incat Tasmania had a Cybertruck meet their latest project, World’s Largest Electric Ferry! “It was great to have another industry innovator in Tesla visit the Incat shipyard to showcase their new Cybertruck in front of Hull 096 as we push forward with our plans to build more sustainable ships for the global market.”

- Per Andre Thierig (@AndrThie), Plant Manager of Giga Berlin, "Finally - our Giga Train is back! It‘s new, it‘s cool and first and foremost it is battery-electric. With this new train, we are saving 50to/CO2 per month on our employees commute. Great! Thanks to all business partners to finally make this happen!"

Christina Zollner, CFO at Smart Train Lease GmbH, on activating their new Tesla Giga Train. “Our battery train travels to the Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg! Today is a milestone for Smart Train Lease: Our first rented battery train is launched! Together with the NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, we make our way to the Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg.”

- Cybertruck in Dubai!

- SNS Telecom & IT’s analyst Asad Khan has said Tesla is continuing to roll out its private 5G network in Giga Shanghai. They have already deployed it at Giga Berlin and Giga Texas. He also said that the company Ericsson is the sole supplier for the Tesla 5G private networking gear. Per Kelly  Dorsey, VP of communications at Ericsson, "Ericsson won’t comment on any business with Tesla. Any comments from SNS are not confirmed from Ericsson and would be hearsay from a third party."

- Per Tesla's Raphael (@PolarMETHOD), "Tesla asked me to host the 1st demo drives of Cybertruck in Washington at my showroom! So excited to let more folks experience this Mars rover!"

- Yesterday ARK Invest's Cathie Wood added 12,426 shares of TSLA to her ARKW ETF. Approximately $2.49 million.

- The Model Y is now on the government procurement lists in the eastern province of Fujian and is approved for purchase.

FLYOVERS:

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 7th of August, '24. Joe spotted three large rental cooling units on trailers at the northeast corner of castings are by the 9K Giga Presses. Work continues on the southend. Crews continue working on electrical conduit & wiring near the Megapack site. Subscribe to Joe and support his flyovers!

  • Giga Berlin's Giga Train: Tobias Lindh (@tobilindh), 6th of August, '24. Tobias takes us for a ride on the Giga Train! Per Tobias, "The train is a Siemens Mireo Plus B. It can charge on electrified tracks and run on battery on non-electrified tracks. It is developed and built in Germany and uses lithium-titanium-oxide batteries from Toshiba, produced in Japan. The battery is located below the floor of the train. It can produce up to 1.7 MW of power and can reach up to 120 kilometers on battery."

■ SPACEX:

- Booster B14.1 returned to the launch site last night for another round of simulated catch testing with the newly modified chopsticks. It was lifted onto the orbital launch mount for more slap tests. Pic above from @LabPadre's live feen and the pic below from @NASASpaceflight's live feed.

- According to NASA's Steve Stich, if Boeing's Starliner comes home empty, SpaceX Crew-9 is set with the flexibility to have only two passengers, so astronauts Butch & Suni could return when the Crew-9 Dragon leaves in February of 2025. "We haven't approved this plan but NASA has the suits identified to fly up on Crew-9. We need to probably decide likely in the middle of August one path or the other to go ahead and meet the launch date for Crew-9." Crew-9 is currently scheduled for the 24th of September.

- Starship 30 sitting at Massey's Outpost awaiting Static Fire test after a Raptor swap.

- After the Starliner news, the Polaris Dawn Project (@PolarisProgram) quickly posted, "We are targeting no earlier than August 26 for the launch of Polaris Dawn," along with the new profile pics.

- Yesterday evening, Judge Rolando Olvera of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas rejected SpaceX’s argument that he lacked jurisdiction to order the transfer of the company’s constitutional challenges against the National Labor Relations Board to a California federal appellate court.

- Broadband io hosted Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell) at the Mountain Connect 2024 Conference yesterday. Her fireside chat took place in Denver with Jase Wilson (@jase). They discussed SpaceX's future, Starship, and Starlink. Full video is in the sources section.

Countdown to 144 (76 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

  • Launch 80! Friday, 9th of August, at 8:13 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 8-3 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 81! Saturday, 10th of August, at 7:21 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-7 will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 82! Sunday, 11th of August, at 7 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. ASBM 1 & 2 are two twin satellites built by Northrop Grumman for Space Norway, in cooperation with Inmarsat and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. They are designed to bring mobile broadband coverage in the Arctic for both civilians and military. The US Air Force provides the Extremely High Frequency eXtended Data Rate payloads on ASBM satellites as part of the Enhanced Polar System. The booster landing area is unknown.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- Oddly, Boring crews have started removing the concrete road section from the Cyber-Tunnel. Not sure why, but under those sections runs the electrical and utilities. Maybe they had a utility issue and are making the fix. Pic above is from Joe Tegtmeyers Giga Texas flyover today.

■ NEURALINK:

- Per NP1 Noland Arbaugh (@ModdedQuad), "Sorry, I've been away. Unrelated, if you're playing with your Neuralink settings, be careful with 'sleep mode'."

■ STARLINK:

- Starlink in Guatemala by Juan Diego.

- During the Mountain Connect chat Gwynne Shotwell revealed SpaceX is working with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on structural elements to determine if SpaceX will bid for Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) projects. She did express a caution stating "I don’t think the math works without Starlink or basically an LEO provider in regard to stretching BEAD funds to reach all unserved locations. I’ve put over $10 billion into Starlink that the government hasn’t paid for. If I participate in BEAD, I don’t want the government to say, ‘I can take over your network."

- The Starlink Mini is now available in Australia.

- Business Jet first Starlink installation on a Gulfstream GV. They looking to get a STC certification for Embraer Legacy 600s.

- ACI Jet avionics has also announced the installation of Starlink on a Bombardier Global 7500.

- Starlink gateway in poland posted by reddit u/liudasbar.

■ X:

- X is contesting the Irish DPC AI Data Order. X has stated it is "unwarranted, overbroad and singles out X without any justification. The order applies not just to Grok but to any AI model that X uses, potentially impacting our work to keep the platform safe and possibly the ability to offer X in the EU." X provides a simple control for all X users to decide if their public posts and engagement activity can be used to improve the models used by Grok. X also allow users to control all interactions with Grok, including deleting their conversation history.

■ xAI:

- Per xAI's Toby Pohlen (@TobyPhln), "We had a pretty great team meeting today. I've never worked on a team that got this much done in such a short amount of time."

- xAI's Devin Kim (@devindkim) advice on applications to xAI after screening hundreds of candidates:

  • We ask "what exceptional work have you done?" on your application. Surprisingly, many applicants choose to leave this section blank or vaguely describe their last role. This is worth spending time on.

  • If you are senior in your current role, share data points on recent IC work. We're looking to hire people who can get the important work done themselves.

  • You do not need prior experience working on AI, except for roles with specific hiring needs. History of being extremely hard working and a fast learner is the primary requirement.

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon confirmed that Donald Trump's interview on Monday will be an X Spaces. He also said he is open to having a conversation with Kamala Harris on X as well. Pic above is Streamer Adin Ross gifting Donald Trump a Cybertruck wrapped with the image of him standing after his assassination attempt. Will be very interesting to here Elon and Donald discuss EVs... Facts vs Fiction.

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