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Want to Know: The Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)
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22nd of August, 2024
"If all goes well, there will be hundreds of people with Neuralinks within a few years, maybe tens of thousands within 5 years, millions within 10 years..." - Elon (@elonmusk), 21st of August, 2024
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■ TESLA $TSLA ($210.66, -5.65%):
- Today, Tesla China President Tom Zhu (@tomzhu_nz) and Team met with Malaysia's Minister of Investment, Trade, and Industry Tengku Zafrul (@tzafrul_aziz). They discussed the progress and implementation of the Global Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) AP Scheme. Tesla has installed 52 Superchargers with a capacity of 250kW, 54 destination wall chargers, and more than 4,500 home chargers in Peninsular Malaysia. They also discussed the potential of battery energy storage for the Malaysian electricity grid. They emphasized the support for involving 9 Malaysian companies in the development of the charging infrastructure.
- I posted the new South Korea Tesla "MARS" Service Center the other day. Well, TKC Suwon T Emperor posted a pic of the inside and they have a Cybertruck! H/T Tsla Chan (@Tslachan).
- Today, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) said it is seeking feedback on a proposal to amend the Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO). This comes at a rule change request from Tesla, Neoen and Iberdrola. Per the AEMC, "On 22 August 2024, we made a more preferable draft rule to exempt not only batteries, but also a broader set of storage assets, such as pumped hydro energy storage, from the RRO."
- Tesla's VP of Finance and Business Operations, Sreela Venkataratnam, announced via LinkedIn that she is leaving the company. Per Sreela, "After 11 incredible years, I bid farewell to Tesla. Reflecting on this journey, it has been nothing short of extraordinary. Leaving as a Vice President (one of only two women VPs in the company) with annual revenues soaring close to $100B, market cap to $700B (reaching $1T during the pandemic) and cars delivered in a year to more than 1.8 million, I am proud of how much we’ve achieved together."
- Short video of Tesla China at the 2024 World Robot Congress in Beijing
- Tesla actually has a physical recall. 9,136 Model Xs from the start of production until the 31st of July. It is to fix trim pieces that may not have been properly applied to the roof and could come off.
- Esther Rebers (@EstherRebers) posted a video of the first Tesla Semi in Europe! It was seen in Kamen, Germany moving towards Hannover. I had heard a dual shipment had left out of Houston and the timing sure seems right. So keep an eye out for a 2nd Semi.
FLYOVERS:
Fremont Factory: MetGod, 22nd of August, '24. Outbond lot is very busy! All the cars at test track area are now gone. Production seems steady.
Giga Nevada: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 21st of August, '24. Great progress in this video. The perimeter grade is getting poured and you can see the yellow protection layer on top. A lot more footings dug out. Tons of steel beams and columns have arrived. Excellent work by Zane. Follow him here on X and subscribe to him on YouTube.
■ SPACEX:
- SpaceX has put a Cyber-Mechazilla decal on Starship 30! Pic by Mary (@BocaChicaGal) for @NASASpaceflight.
- SpaceX is now targeting Tuesday, the 27th of August for launch of Polaris Dawn. The new date allows additional time for teams to complete preflight checkouts ahead of the launch. Per Elon, "This will be the first spacewalk by a commercial company and the furthest from Earth anyone has traveled in over half a century!"
- Not sure how I missed this yesterday, but the Polaris Dawn crew will use smart contact lenses to monitor their intraocular pressure. We are so into the future now!
- This is an image from today of Tower 2 fully stacked! Screenshot from @LabPadre's live feed.
Countdown to 144 (82 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):
Launch 86! Friday, 23rd of August, at 3:46 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 8-6 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SCL-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Launch 87! Friday, 23rd of August, at 1:00 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-5 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.
Launch 88! Monday, 27th of August, at 3:38 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Polaris Dawn will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This will be the first mission of the privately funded Polaris program. This mission is to last up to five days in orbit, fly higher than any previous Dragon missions, perform the first-ever commercial EVA with SpaceX-designed spacesuits, orbit through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, conduct medical research, and test laser-based Starlink communications. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- Zach Strong, Technical Team Builder at The Boring Company, posted the following on LinkedIn:
"We're building the infrastructure of tomorrow - today. Similar to SpaceX pre-Falcon 9 rocket, we're advancing towards a revolutionizing tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will change the way humans travel. This is already happening in Las Vegas - during typical peak hours, driving from the Las Vegas Convention Center to Allegiant Stadium can take up to 30 minutes. The same trip on the Vegas Loop will take approximately 4. With Prufrock 4 starting testing, and PR5+6 coming soon, we're getting closer and closer to our "Falcon 9". We've got some key openings to fill along the way though. Here's what's top of mind for me. Lead Mechanical Engineer in Austin, TX for novel, cutting edge engineering and Software Engineer in Las Vegas to build autonomous cars underground. Who's ready to " dig" in? (had to do it :D)"
Two key items here. "PR5+6" is obviously Prufrock 5 and 6. And "build autonomous cars underground" in Las Vegas. I'm speculating, but this hints at a specific Tesla Transport vehicle. Remember those supposedly leaked pics last year from Vegas?
■ NEURALINK:
- Neuralink's 2nd patient's name is Alex and it took him less than 5 minutes to start controlling a cursor with his mind. Within a few hours, he was able to surpass the maximum speed and accuracy he’d achieved with any other assistive technology on our Webgrid task. Similar to Noland, our first participant, Alex broke the previous world record for brain-computer interface (BCI) cursor control on day one of using the Link. After the first research session concluded, Alex continued testing the capabilities of the Link independently, using it to play the first-person shooter game Counter-Strike 2. Per Alex, "I’m already super impressed with how this works."
Per Elon, "If all goes well, there will be hundreds of people with Neuralinks within a few years, maybe tens of thousands within 5 years, millions within 10 years…"
■ STARLINK:
- If you don't want to pay annoying WiFi fees on a cruise… Starlink Mini
- According to Ghana's National Communications Authority (NCA), "Starlink will officially commence operations in Ghana by the end of this month. This follows the conclusion of all administrative and licensing procedures with the (NCA). Starlink will be operated by Space X Starlink GH LTD."
- Starlink announced that they are now available in South Sudan.
- SpaceX is imposing a new fee that will increase the product’s price is sold by an unauthorized reseller. The fee ranges from $200-$300 and will appear if the dish is activated outside of the region they were originally sold.
■ X:
- X Conference's will have auto captions like Spaces and once you click the X Conference's button in a group chat or dm, it will start a conference and send the link, making it easier to start calls. H/T Lohan Simpson (@Lohansimpson).
- DM message editing will soon be coming to iOS.
■ xAI:
- A US district judge has ruled that X Holdings must unseal its corporate disclosure statement by the 4th of September and reveal the full list of shareholders for both X and xAI. Apparently the Washington Post did not want to wait and the nearly 100 stakeholders listed is now public. It includes a number of venture capital firms that we all knew about; Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, 8VC of Joe Lonsdale, Gigafund, and the Founders Fund. Other names include investor Bill Ackman, hip-hop's Sean Combs and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Even Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey aided in purchase under an entity named Jack Dorsey Remainder LLC. You can see the whole list in the thread.
■ ELON NEWS:
- Elon cannot carry the additional Murmuring Obols...
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SOURCES
FLYOVERS:
Giga Nevada: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9B_huB2mvg
Fremont Factory: MetGod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVlZudgxf6c
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Starlink:
Neuralink:
X:
