Want to Know: The Daily Musk Company Update (Patreon)

23rd of August, 2024

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"No logo..." - Elon (@elonmusk), 23rd of August, 2024

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■ TESLA $TSLA ($220.32, +4.59%):

- Tesla intern Lucas Smith posted the following pic with his team and Cybertruck on top of the new multi-level parking garage at Giga Texas. Lucas has completed his 13 week run and is heading back to Purdue University.

- In Colorado customers can now utilize the states $5,350 tax credit at Point of Sale through Tesla. They can now get a total of $12,850 off a new Model 3 or Y when they also use the $7,500 Federal credit. A new Model 3 LR RWD can be purchased for $29,640, and the Model Y RWD for $32,140!

- The Tesla Semi we all saw yesterday has arrived at Giga Berlin, and it has a friend. These two shipped from the port of Houston last month. This pic was posted by Tobias Lindh, (@tobilindh).

- FSD 12.5 is now rolling out to early access HW3 vehicles. Possible wide release as early as this weekend.

- Ryan Torres (@RyanTorresTesla) posted this pic stating, "The future is here. Tesla semi with new Quicksilver Performance Model 3, Lunar Silver Model X, Ultra Red Model Y ready for @ElectrifyExpo this weekend in Alameda, CA."

- Per Tesla's and X's Viv (@battleangelviv), "1 year at tesla is like 5 years elsewhere. It’s truly insane how many excellent folks you’re able to learn from and things you’re able to get involved in. True for all elon companies - you won’t have more agency and ability to have an impact anywhere else."

- Great video by Deionno Electrical & Solar at the Powerwall 3 event in Sydney. "Australia, meet the most aesthetic, high-performing, and reliable home battery on the market. With the best warranty and user-friendly interface, the Tesla Powerwall 3 is the ultimate choice for your energy needs."

- Tesla has returned to Amazon. There are multiple items via car model, mostly liners and sunshades. They also have two Tesla Wall Connectors available with Prime shipping; Wall Connector with 24’ Cable ($625 CAD) and the Universal Wall Connector (NACS + J1772) with 24’ Cable ($800 CAD). The Universal Wall Connector also features Tesla Powershare for Cybertruck. Link in the Sources Section.

- Andrew Mirkin, President of Associated Building Wreckers, posted pics of some heavy demolition that is making way for a new Tesla Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.

- Tesla has deployed over 11,500 Superchargers in China with an availability rate over 99.5%. The number of Superchargers available for use in mainland China has exceeded 1,950. The network has achieved 100% coverage in all provincial capitals and municipalities in mainland China.

- Mik Dahl, owner of Storyflight, created this video at the Denmark Autoshow 2024. "I stood in front of the big silver beast and .. You have to fly through one with a drone - because otherwise it doesn't count! So.. Here is the video - filmed after closing time..."

- In the UK, Tesla dropped the monthly leasing cost of a Model Y by 25%, from £399 down to £299. This is on all orders placed after the 29th August, and delivery taken before the 13th of September. This is on the RWD variant for 36 months with a £4,499 deposit. You must stay under 10,000 miles per year, or their will be a fee for every mile over.

- Tesla's Álvaro López Sáiz will the Ocaña Supercharger in Spain carrying out test drives with the 1020 hp Tesla Model S Plaid; 0 - 100km/h in just 2.1 seconds!

- Tesla Korea is giving away four 7 days, 6 nights Demo Drives to potential customers to celebrate Chuseok, a major mid-autumn harvest festival. You can apply online from the 23rd of August until the 4th of September. They will announce the winners on the 6th of September. Winners will get the demo vehicles on Friday the 13th.

- For those with the means, consider subscribing to Zanegler (@HinrichsZane) on X. He's our drone pilot at Giga Nevada and gives great insights on the Tesla Semi. Today, he was approved for X Subscriptions!

FLYOVERS:

• Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 23rd of August, '24. Cybertruck city! The southend evac tunnels are getting graded. Cooling pipes and manifolds at the Supercomputer will soon be tested. New product 'Robotaxi' testing hidden in the multi-level parking garage. Joe counts 72 transformers on site now! Awesome. Check out Joe's video and subscribe to support his work!

• Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 22nd of August, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- Anyone ask for a Raptor?! Mary (@BocaChicaGal) spotted a Raptor delivery today. Units 349, 373, 348 and 366! Support Mary by subscribing to @NASASpaceflight.

- Per Elon, "Falcon 9 is now ~75% reusable and requires several days between flights. Starship is designed to be 100% reusable and ultimately be ready to refly within an hour of landing. This is the key to becoming a multiplanet civilization."

- FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC), visited Starbase yesterday. "Great to spend time with SpaceX's talented & hardworking teams today. Their bold and innovative efforts are opening up new opportunities for our economy and humanity. And, by the way, there’s nothing like seeing a Starship in person."

- NASA is expected to announce as soon as Saturday whether American astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be able to return home from the ISS via the faltering Boeing Starliner or use the next SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle. Crew-9 is slated next and they will remove two astronauts from the flight list in order to make two seats available. Suni and Butch would return home once the Crew-9 mission is complete.

Per Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace), "I'm now hearing from multiple people that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come back to Earth on Crew Dragon. It's not official, and won't be until NASA says so. Still, it is shocking to think about. I mean, Dragon is named after Puff the Magic Dragon. This industry is wild."

- Starbase by RGV Aerial Photography (@RGVaerialphotos). "Starbase Flyover complete!" Subscribe to RGV and support their awesome work!

Countdown to 144 (82 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

• Launch 86! Saturday, 24th of August, at 12:41 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 87! Monday, 26th 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 drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Launch 88! Wednesday, 28th of August, at 1:50 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.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- The Boring crews have started construction on the Entryway for the Cyber-Tunnel inside Giga Texas! According to Joe Tegtmeyer, "A new west entrance into the south extension is being paved and will allow Model Ys to be marshaled and use the tunnel too!"

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Starlink at Sunset by Daniele Tassara of Carnival Corporation. "Even in the middle of the sea, Starlink is allowing all our Crew and Guests to remain always connected!" Gorgeous shot!

- Per Christopher Saili, Managing Director of Kahuto Pacific, "What a game changer SpaceX Starlink has been for my Kahuto Pacific team. I still don’t understand why other Pacific countries haven’t followed Fiji’s lead in welcoming Starlink with open arms. We work with huge survey and geospatial data sets, often collected in remote Pacific Island communities. The data collected is often for critical, high value infrastructure and our clients depend on us to deliver on time. We used to struggle getting the acquired data to my processing teams scattered across the Pacific and final deliverables to clients using our old unreliable internet providers. Not any more!"

- Autonomous Maritime Services installing Starlink Maritime.

■ X:

- X Conferences will have a unique code that you can share to let people join. X is also working on 1:1 and group video meetings via the web.

■ xAI:

- The Large Model Systems Organization (@lmsysorg), creators of the Vicuna and Chatbot Arena, have compared over 50 LLMs side-by-side and xAI's Grok-2 and Grok-mini are officially on the leaderboard with over 6000 community votes. Grok-2 has claimed the No.2 spot, surpassing GPT-4o and tying with the latest Gemini. Grok-2-mini also impressed at No.5 spot. Grok-2 ranked No.1 in Math and No.2 across the boards in Hard Prompts, Coding, and Instruction-following.

Per Elon, "Great work by the xAI team! Thanks also to our suppliers & contractors who went the extra mile! Special thanks to @Oracle at whose data center Grok 2 was trained."

Per xAI's Devin Kim (@devindkim), "Grok-2 officially public as xAI takes #2 on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard!"

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon has been posting Diablo gameplay videos via his @cyb3rgam3r420 account and someone asked him to play live. Elon replied, "Ok, will do live gameplay for verified users." So keep an eye out for a livestream.

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SOURCES

FLYOVERS:

• Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpi6tNQSxto

• Giga Texas: Brad Sloan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPbZWvgOL9o

Tesla:

• https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tesla/page/6CED2453-E437-4DA1-9494-B1F9E18349B9?ref_=ast_bln

• https://pandaily.com/tesla-has-deployed-over-11500-supercharger-stations-in-china-with-an-availability-rate-exceeding-99-5/

Elon Quote:

• https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1827045479299133699