S.E. Robinson, Jr.

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

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2024-09-03 20:21:40

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2026-06

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3rd of September, 2024

"Karma’s a b*tch bro..." - Elon

■ TESLA $TSLA ($210.60, -1.64%):

- Tesla Owners Club Western Australia (@tesla_wa) posted this pic of Cybertruck on display at the grand opening of Tesla’s Perth (O’Connor) Store.

- Teslascope posted that Tesla's Actual Smart Summon (ASS) is here! Shortly after we started to see some video pop up. They also noted that FSD has skipped directly from V12.5.1.3 (AI4) and V12.5.1.5 (AI3) to V12.5.3. Many are wondering if this merges AI3 and 4.

- A report from S&P Global Mobility shows that Tesla is the leader in brand loyalty. "Tesla continues its run as the leader in brand loyalty with a rate of 67.8% for the first half of 2024. Customer loyalty has remained relatively constant." It shows customers are staying loyal to the brand even amid a constant drumbeat of media criticism of Elon.

- Tesla Supercharger has been opened at Pforzheim (Germany).

- Thanks to the Tesla Motors Club forum we know the state California has been awarded $102.4 million via the Biden administration’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program to build a semi truck charging corridor via the California Department of Transportation (CDOT). The first of its kind. It will be called the West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project and run from California to Washington. It will have as many as 34 semi charging stations with 350kW chargers. Tesla has applied for a Megacharger corridor from California to Texas.

- Tesla's Momo Elmegrahi, announced a fleet of Teslas have been delivered to Karwa of Qatar. "This marks a significant milestone for us as we continue to lead the way in sustainable transportation solutions in Qatar and the Middle East." Karwa is an online taxi service throughout the country.

- You can now save around $2,000 on a solar and Powerwall installation when you order by the 30th of September.

- Ricardo Fabricio Ramirez Romo of the DRÄXLMAIER Group, A Tesla supplier, posted a pic of his team after the successful production of the upgraded Tesla Model 3. Notice the Model 3 door panel.

- General Lithium hosted the AI Takeover and Tesla was on site demoing a Cybertruck and a Model Y doing FSD. Pic are by Anna Hollingsworth, CEO at General Lithium.

- China’s Passenger Car Association (CPCA) posted on Monday that Tesla China shipped approximately 86,697 Model 3s and Ys for the month of August. That is an increase of 3% YoY. Domestic sales were over 63,000 vehicles, with Model Y's retail sales over 45,000.

- For the week of August 26th to September 1st, Tesla China insured approximately 14,400 vehicles.

- The Cybertruck South Korea tour starts on the 6th of September.

- The 41 new trainees from Giga Berlin. Among them, is Managing Director Monique Zweig. She welcomed the young trainees. Tesla currently offers 20 different apprenticeships, including plastics and rubber technologists.

- Model 3 interest rates have changed in the U.S. The 72-month rate is now 2.99%, up from 1.99%. The 36, 48, and 60 month rate is 1.99%. The 84 month rate is 3.99%. The non-promotional rate is now 5.59% for 36, 48, 60, and 72 month, down from 5.99%. The 84 month rate is now 6.64%, down from 6.99%.

- This is a first. In Lindau, Germany, it looks like Tesla has installed a vacuum between two Supercharger stalls at a new V4 Supercharger.

FLYOVERS:

Giga Berlin: Robert & Andreas (@wolfpackberlin), 31st of August, '24. Another great video on Giga Berlin's progress. Phase 2, Solar Charger Canopy, and much more.

■ SPACEX:

- Early Saturday morning, launch 87 of Falcon 9 Starlink 8-10 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SCL-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the 18th flight for the booster. It previously launched CRS-24, OneWeb 1, SES 18 & 19, Eutelsat HOTBIRD-F1, and 13 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Just Read The Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean. 21 Starlink were deployed, including 13 Direct to Cells.

- Also early Saturday, launch 88 of Falcon 9 Starlink 9-5 launched from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the ninth flight for the booster. It previously launched Crew-7, CRS-29, NROL-186, EarthCARE, Transporter 10, PACE, and two Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 21 Starlink were deployed, including 13 Direct to Cells.

- Yesterday, both of the Chopsticks ship lifting pins were tested. First was the port side pin, followed by the starboard.

- On Thursday, the 4th of September, from 12:00 a.m. to 3 a.m., a road closure of Hwy 4 will be for transportation from the launch pad to a SpaceX parking lot. Star-Hopper is leaving the pad! First step at making him a display at the new SpaceX HQ? I think so. Screenshot from @NASASpaceflight's live feed.

- The future home of Star-Hopper? I think so. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages). Subscribe to Carlos if you haven't already.

Countdown to 144 (85 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

Launch 89! Wednesday, 4th of September, at 8:59 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 8-11 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 90! Thursday, 5th of September, at 6:56 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 NORL-113 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This is the third batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.

Launch 91! Friday, 6th of September, 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 Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean. Pic by Gavin (@tweetsiphotos).

■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- Some of the Boring Company yards in the Las Vegas area.

■ NEURALINK:

- This video is of the Telepathy app by Neuralink's Rooz (@roozm). Rooz is an interface designer and coder at the company, and his team is looking for another design engineer. Per Rooz, "A genuinely new pointing device comes along once a decade, and brings with it entirely new interfaces for human expression, thinking, and agency."

- Came across this pic by Neuralink's Joe Smith (@Yasumoto). This was Neuralink's booth at the 2022 Socal Linux Expo.

■ STARLINK:

- Samuel Possebon, Editorial Director at TELETIMED posted this pic stating the Forest Peoples Connection Project has connected 1,000 communities in the Amazon with Starlink.

- On Monday, the president of Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Carlos Baigorri, stated in an interview with Globo News that Starlink may lose its authorization to operate in Brazil if it does not comply with the decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes to block access to 𝕏 in the country. On Sunday, the 1st of September, Starlink informed Anatel that it would not comply with the order while the company's financial accounts remained blocked.

- Today, Starlink poste don X that they are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil, "Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets." They also stated they are doing everything possible to keep Brazilian customers connected.

- This is Iryna Popovych, Head of Dzyga’s Paw Charity Fund and Ukraine fundraiser, finished a fundraiser that will soon deliver 202 Starlink kits to over 25 units of the Ukraine Defence Forces.

- Per Elon, "Starlink direct to mobile phone Internet is exclusively with T-Mobile in the US for the first year, then other carriers thereafter. We are starting off working with one carrier in each country, but ultimately hope to serve all carriers."

- Starlink kits arriving in Manaus, Brazil, on Monday. Pic by Klaiton Simão.

- Per Elon, "Starlink is the only high-bandwidth Internet system that covers all of Earth. It will probably deliver over 90% of all space-based Internet traffic next year."

- Last Friday, the FCC rejected a petition from Virginia resident Greg Weisiger, who urged the FCC to reverse its decision to deny SpaceX the $886 million from the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). This is the third time the have rejected Starlink.

- Starlin at sea by Amarjot Singh Sandhuam, Chief Mate at Pacific Basin Shipping. "Starlink has changed the whole maritime connectivity industry!"

■ X:

- The X TV Beta app is now live on Android TVs. It's available on LG, Amazon Fire TV, and Google TV, with more integrations coming soon.

- You can now edit DMs on iOS with the latest update. Other platforms coming soon.

- X Japan via X advertising is offering a new incentive for new and returning advertisers. If you use 40,000 yen, X will provide you with an advertising coupon worth 80,000 yen!

- According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino there are now 700K Community Notes contributors worldwide in all languages spoken on the platform.

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- Aaron (@aaronp613) has found a lot of goodies. You will soon be able to upload images to Grok on X for iOS. You will also be able to add labels to people in DMs on X. And lastly, Aaron found that X may soon offer select customer up to 50% off to renew X Premium.

- Brazil's ban on X has started coming into effect on Saturday. Justice Moraes is threatening Brazilians who use a VPN to access X with fines of up to $9000 a day.

- On Saturday, X launched a daily data dump account called the Alexandre Files (@AlexandreFiles) to reveal the unlawful directives issued to X by Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Per Elon, "He can block this platform in Brazil, but he can’t stop the whole world from knowing his illegal, shameful & hypocritical deeds. Karma’s a b*tch bro."

■ xAI:

- Valor's and Elon's friend Antonio Gracias dives into why he is investing into xAI. He speaks on X and how Community Notes gives closest unbiased data set any LLM will ever have. "Do you want a source of truth that's in its closest source of truth has got the best real time information in the world, or do you want something that's influenced by advertising clicks."

- Yesterday, Elon posted that xAI brought online their 100k H100 training cluster, and it is named Colossus! It was completed in 122 days and is the most powerful AI training system in the world. He also stated that it will double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months. "Excellent work by the team, Nvidia and our many partners/suppliers."

Per Michael Dell (@MichaelDell), "It's amazing how fast this was done, and it's an honor for Dell (@DellTech) and xAI to be part of this important AI training system. Congrats!"

Per xAI's Ross (@rpoo), "By far the fastest construction project & cluster bring up I've ever witnessed. The team here is truly extraordinary.

■ ELON NEWS:

- On the 23rd of September, Elon will hand the top Atlantic Council award, a global citizenship award, to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during her upcoming visit to New York.

- Elon stated, "Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of X and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too. Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial."

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SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

Giga Berlin: Wolfpack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg1v32Szd0

Tesla:

Starlink:

Elon News: