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5th of September, 2024

"No pay, no title, no recognition is needed..." - Elon

■ TESLA $TSLA ($230.17, +4.90%):

- Tesla opened a pop-up store in Vilnius, Lithuania. Soon, they will open an official Tesla Store and Service Center that will include mobile service for the area.

- Tesla AI's (@Tesla_AI) post just woke everyone up! Here is the release roadmap:

September 2024: v12.5.2 with ~3x improved miles between necessary interventions, v12.5.2 on AI3 computer (unified models for AI3 and AI4), Actually Smart Summon, Cybertruck Autopark, Eye-tracking with sunglasses, End-to-End network on highway.
October 2024: Unpark, Park and Reverse in FSD, v13 with ~6x improved miles between necessary interventions.
Q1 2025: FSD in Europe (pending regulatory approval), FSD in China (pending regulatory approval.

Per Elon, "Hopefully, RHD markets in late Q1, early Q2, pending regulatory approval."

- Today Tesla will attend the Founders Village's Tech Weekend until the 7th of September at No.3 Embarcadero Center in San Francisco. Today they had unlimited test drives of the new Performance Model 3 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. On Saturday there is an exclusive networking mixer for attendees hosted by Tesla at their Palo Alto location! They will have more test drives, plus 40 vouchers for attendees to take a Tesla home overnight! These vouchers are valid nationwide! Register here!

- Tesla Senior VP Tom Zhu (@tomzhu_nz) was at the Auckland Delivery Center this past Sunday. He was joined by Country Director Thom Drew and General Sales Manager ANZ Tom Ridulfo.

- Georgia Power secured a battery and equipment supply agreement with Tesla Energy for a 500MW/2,000MWh BESS portfolio made up of four sites varying in size. The four new Megapack sites will total up to $450 million.

- Because I don't think anyone noticed this yesterday... Champagne Universet made special Tesla champagne' for the morning network by Lyngby Boldklub yesterday. The Testa logo is engraved in the glass and the champagne is produced using sustainable practices.

- Looks like Tesla will soon open their first store in the Philippines. They are hosting their first Recruitment Day in Manila on the 13th and 14th of September from 1pm-5pm at the Garcia Villa Room. Open Positions include: - Tesla Advisor (Sales Advisor) - Customer Support Specialist - Delivery Advisor - Delivery Operations Specialist - Service Advisor - Vehicle Technician - Service Manager - Parts Advisor.

- Tesla has Cybertruck on display at the 2024 "Inclusion·Conference on the Bund" from today to 7th at the Huangpu World Expo Park in Shanghai. Earlier this week it was at the World Power Battery Conference in Yibin, of China's Sichuan province.

- Tesla launched the new referral program in Germany and the UK.

- The Tesla Thailand Cybertruck Tour is at the Central Festival Shopping Center in Chiangmai. They have a Model 3 and Y on display and Demo Drives. They will be there from today until the 15th of September.

- Tesla's Charles Law and the Macau Team were invited to do a presentation for the Galaxy Entertainment Group's E-vehicle x Tesla Workshop. "Our goal is to accelerate Macau’s transition to sustainable energy by educating the local leading enterprises of what Tesla is doing. As being a stakeholder of the industry, we will try our best to share the advantages of the ownership of Electric Vehicle and expanding the charging network."

- Tesla Australia and New Zealand has extended the 1.99% interest rate and $0 down for up to 5 years on Model 3 RWD and LR until the 30th of September.

FLYOVERS:

Giga Nevada: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 5th of September, '24. Roof panel installation is already taking place!

Giga Berlin: Tobias Lindh (@tobilindh), 4th of September, '24. Phase 2, Solar Charger Canopy, and graffiti progress.

■ SPACEX:

- This morning, launch 89 of Falcon 9 Starlink 8-11 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SCL-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the 15th flight for the booster. It previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I6-F2, CRS-28, Intelsat G-37, NG-20, and eight Starlink missions. The booster will land on drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean. 21 Starlinks were deployed, including 13 Direct to Cell.

- Great shot by Genna Hammer (@genna_hammer) shows the ship pins appear to be fully installed.

- Last night the Starship Mobile Static Fire stand was staged outside Mega Bay 2 and the 2-Point Lifter was moved inside, attached to the bridge crane, and lifted off its stand. Starship 31 then from the Highbay into Mega Bay 2 and was placed onto the static fire stand. There is a road closure schedule tonight at midnight. For Ship to move to Massey's for testing..

- Danielle O’Neil, Distribution Systems Analyst for Messer Americas, visited one of their most valued customers, SpaceX. She took these pics at the McGregor test facility.

- Two of the SpaceX-built US Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 0 experimental satellites have successfully exchanged data using optical communication laser terminals manufactured by Tesat-Spacecom. The laser communications test is a crucial step in SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) program which aims to create a network of hundreds of small satellites to enhance military communication and surveillance capabilities. SDA director Derek Tournear noted that all four SpaceX Tranche satellites have successfully detected missile launches with their infrared sensors.

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

Launch 90! Thursday, 5th of September, at 8:20 p.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.

■ THE BORING COMPANY: N/A... boring.

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Yesterday, KREDA, a united group of credit unions in Lithuanian, signed a support agreement with the Communication and Information Systems Battalion of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Grand Duke Christopher Radvila Perkūnas and handed over three Starlink kits for state organizations. "We are pleased and very proud that with our works we can contribute to strengthening the security of one of the most important institutions of the country – the Lithuanian Armed Forces."

- Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) Group announced that it successfully utilized Starlink at more than 100 rural cellular stations to provide satellite backhaul in Nigeria.

- Aviation watchdog JonNYC (@xJonNYC) says that United Airlines is close to an announcing a deal with Starlink. "The looooong awaited UA inflight wi-fi news looks like it will finally be coming out soon. And I fully assume it's going to be Starlink."

■ X:

- JeebsTX (@JeebsTX) is really liking X Pro.

- According to the Financial Times, an increasing number of brands are planning to cut advertising on X next year. In a survey by Kantar, a net 26% of marketers planned to cut X ad spend, and only 4% considered X ads brand-safe. X responded by pointing out that third parties like DoubleVerify have assessed X as having very high standards of brand safety, and that consumer ad preference for X has increased significantly.

- X will now let you change the quality of the videos manually on iOS.

■ xAI:

- xAI has been forced to exclude EU user data from its dataset used for training Grok. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) launched High Court proceedings against X on how they are utilizing the public data. The DPC is the Irish supervisory authority for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under the GDPR, X is required to seek explicit permission from EU users over the use of their data. In the app, X added a setting within user accounts with the option to give X permission to use their posts and activities to train Grok. The EU thinks this is not good enough.

■ ELON NEWS:

- Today during a New York Economic Club speech, Donald Trump announced his support for the creation of a U.S. Government Efficiency Commission that Elon has recommended on several occasions. The Commission is to eliminate waste in the federal government.

Per Trump, "I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms."

Per Elon, "I look forward to serving America if the opportunity arises. No pay, no title, no recognition is needed."

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