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Want to Know: Your Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)

Published:
2024-09-16 20:15:34
Imported:
2026-06

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16th of September, 2024

"The carousel of destiny spins ever faster..." - Elon

■ TESLA $TSLA ($226.74, -1.54%):

- Ricky Ip (@ipwaikrazy), Tesla's Regional Recruiting Manager for Greater China, South East Asia, and South Korea, just completed the 1st Recruitment Day in the Philippines! "Thank you to our amazing cross-functional team’s support from various countries. It was a great success. Thank you to all the candidates who came, and thank you for your passion to join our team!"

- The Tesla Semi has arrived at IAA Transportation Conference in Hanover, Germany. Pic by Georg Blenk.

- Tesla produced its 100 millionth 4680 cell this last week! In June they produced their 50 millionth. They doubled their lifetime production in 3 months. Per Scott Tripp, Tesla Director for 4680 Cell, "Next stop - 1 Billion."

- Tesla has a Cybertruck and Model Y on display at the ITS World Congress in Dubai.

- Per a filing by Tesla, "Tesla is proposing installing a new sculpture at 3000 Hanover, along the Page Mill and Hanover intersection. The proposed sculpture design was developed in house and is a product of multi-disciplinary collaboration within Tesla. The concept is a stylized, low-poly California Grizzly bear meant to combine Tesla’s design language with California’s Grizzly bear, and highlight the common message of strength and unyielding resistance." In other words, Tesla is going to install a CyberBear outside of the Palo Alto facility.

- This weekend, Tesla France hit the track at the 500 Nocturnes motorsport event in Alsace with a Model S Plaid!

- According to Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Model 3 was best-selling sedan in August 2024 at 186 sold. The Model Y was at 122 sold.

- Tesla's Malaysia's Joep Mocking and Team are officially open for deliveries in Penang. Next to the delivery area they launched a V4 Supercharger in the Sunway Plaza and a Service Center. "Excited to be part of the expansion in Malaysia!"

- First Cybertruck deliveries are about to start in Mexico. Pic by Tesla Owners Mexico (@co_tesla)).

FLYOVERS:

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 16th of September, '24.

  • Tesla Diner: 247Tesla, 16th of September, '24.

  • Giga Berlin: Robert and Andreas (@wolfpackberlin), 15th of September, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- Welcome home Polaris Dawn!

- Dragon Resilience and the Polaris Dawn Team returned to Earth on Sunday with a splash down off the coast of the Dry Tortugas, Florida.

Per Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell), "It is with great relief that I welcome you home! This mission was even more extraordinary than I anticipated. Sarah — that global orchestral performance made me tear up! Thank you all for taking this journey."

Polaris Dawn Day 5 Update: One scientific experiment focused on identifying and understanding the risk of kidney stone formation while living in microgravity. Another was developing and validating CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) procedures aboard the Dragon spacecraft.

The crew continued to test Starlink, including a 40+ minute, uninterrupted video call with SpaceX teams and with members of the Air Force who helped train them at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

- Join the Polaris Dawn crew Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. ET for a live X Spaces to discuss their mission and all the science and research experiments. Link in the sources section, so hit that reminder button.

- Falcon 9 Booster B1085-2 was spotted by @NASASpaceflight today. This booster is at Kennedy Space Center getting prepped for the Crew 9 mission launching only Astronaut Nick Hague (@AstroHague) and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to the ISS. The two vacant seats are so Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can return home once the mission is complete.

- Starfactory's construction of a new door facing the Stargate facility. Great pics by Genna Hammer (@genna_hammer). Other things happening at Starbase include:

  • The Starfactory extension connecting the new HQ offices is getting it's roof installed.

  • The hard-stops that keeps the chopsticks from crushing the launch vehicles have been reinstalled.

  • Starship 31 got frosty again, but non static fire.

- Omar, (@WholeMarsBlog) spotted the SpaceX 737 at LAX this weekend

Countdown to 144 (90 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

  • Launch 94! Tuesday, 17th of September, at 6:51 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32) will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. Galileo provides Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems. The booster will be expended in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 95! Wednesday, 18th of September, at 7:20 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-17 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 96! Wednesday, 25th of September, at 2:28 p.m. Falcon 9 Crew-9 Block 5 will launch Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be the ninth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. On board will be Commander Nick Hague and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov. The booster will land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- Prufrock-4 undergoing a lighting test inside the Boring Factory in Bastrop, Texas. You can see Prufrock-5 hidden in the shadows.

- At Giga Texas the Boring crews have laid concrete around the Cyber-Tunnel interior entrance. It appears they are putting up the wall which will cutoff our view inside. At the westside exit crews are running conduit. Check out Joe Tegtmeyer's flyover for more!

- A video was posted by YouTuber Trucker John showing Boring crews prepping to lift Prufrock-3 out of the recent LVCC South Hall bore. The is the This is next to the Tesla charging station on Paradise Rd.

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Brenda Norris and the Native Women's Association of the North West Territory are currently supplying Starlinks to low income families and elders in small communities in the far north remote villages in Alaska and Canada. So far, they have installed over 30 Starlinks in Lutselke and 40 in Akavik. Other communities, such as Paulatuk and Colville Lake, will receive even more Starlinks. Native Women's is also collecting data usage when the internet isn't capped and whether internet connectivity encourages language and cultural learning.

- Today, the Department of Education (DepEd) in Puerto Princesa City, a coastal city of Palawan Island in the western Philippines, received 54 Starlink terminals this from Mayor Lucilo Bayron and other members of the city government at the New Green City Hall. They will assist schools in remote areas of the city that lack internet access.

- On Saturday, the Polaris Dawn Team held a 40+ minute uninterrupted video call with SpaceX in Hawthorne. Starlink stayed connected as Dragon completed half an orbit over the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., cutting southeast over the Atlantic Ocean and rounding the Cape of Good Hope. The plaser in Dragon’s trunk and the partner Starlink satellite for the event maintained their laser link during 16 Draco thruster firings!

- Starlink Gateway antennas spotted by Brian Munyao Longwe in Nairobi, Kenya.

- Elon posted that SpaceX could provide high-speed internet via Starlink to every Canadian household without broadband access for "less than half the amount" of the $2.14 billion the Canadian government is loaning to Telesat, a Quebec-based satellite operator.

■ X:

- X's Kika Davis (@DuhKeeks) at X Japan's Tokyo office.

- X received their Money Transmission License for Oklahoma, placing their total at 37 states.

- By the end of August, X had a 22% YoY growth rate. In mid-July, X’s growth rate peaked at 28%.

- Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton), the staunch critic of X and champion of social media censorship for the EU, has been removed as a candidate for reinstatement in 2025. This man threatened X without consent from the EU. As political sound as this letter is, Thierry was kicked out.

Per Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX), "It’s a good day for free speech."

■ xAI:

- Larry, Elon, and Jensen walked into a bar... Ok, it was not a bar, it was a restaurant...

During Oracle's earnings call last week, co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison told the following story; Larry, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon had dinner at Nobus in Palo Alto. It was here that Elon and Larry convinced, or begged, their longtime friend for the GPUs they needed for xAI and Grok. Per Larry, "I would describe the dinner as me and Elon begging Jensen for GPUs. Please take our money….we need you to take more of our money. It went OK, it worked."

Larry also said Oracle provided xAI with GPUs to train Grok. "They got that up and running, but boy did they want a lot more GPUs than we gave them; we're in the process of getting them more."

Also of interest, Oracle announced it plans to power its colossal new data center with three "modular" nuclear reactors (SMRs). They are aiming to build the world’s most powerful supercomputer, one that will beat xAI's Colossus.

■ ELON NEWS: N/A...

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