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18th of September, 2024

"Speed of light is the law..." - Elon

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■ TESLA $TSLA ($227.20, -0.29%):

- Today Tesla's Semi Lead Dan Priestley (@danWpriestley) and PepsiCo's Electrification Program Manger DeJan Antunovic spoke at the IAA Transportation Summit in Hanover, Germany, on the PepsiCo Case Study. Currently, PepsiCo has 89 Tesla Semis in their fleet. Drivers have expressed they never want to go back to a diesel truck. I posted a video of the Semi that was quote posted by Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt). Elon replied stating, "Looks like we can get kWh/mile down around 1.2 with the median semi load."

- Cybertrucks in Brazil. Pic by Sigma Motors.

- Starting today, GM EV owners can start using Tesla's Supercharger network. While other auto manufactures offer free charging adapters, GM is making their customers pay $225 per adapter, and a using a non-GM adapter violates the vehicles warranty. Talk about taking the lead...

- Last week, Western Sydney University's Launch Pad partnered with Tesla to deliver their 7th Venture Makers Innovation Challenge titled; Tesla Hackathon: Future of Energy! Tesla Energy's Head of Business Development and Project Sales for APAC, Shane Bannister brought his team to the event to meet and help the students. This year's Challenge Question: “How can Tesla's energy generation and storage technologies be used in the development of smart cities and sustainable environments?” Students had to define a problem, get to a solution, design a product or service, pitch the idea and compete for prizes! More here.

- Angela Zatopek, Sales Director for Tesla Solar at Vikta Energy, posted her crew at work in Tahoe installing V3R Tesla Solar Roof. "V3R is the latest version of Tesla Solar Roof with an improved Class 4 hail rating."

- New Jersey has a new $2,000 EV incentive. Qualifying New Jersey residents can now get $4,000 for the purchase or lease.

FLYOVERS:

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 18th of September, '24. Subscribe to Joe!

Giga Nevada: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 17th of September, '24. Subscribe to Zane!
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 17th of September, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- Yesterday, launch 94 of Falcon 9 Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32) launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. Galileo provides Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but is interoperable with both systems. Pic by Charles Boyer (@TheOldManPar).

This was the 22nd flight of the booster. It previously launched CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, O3B mPOWER, PSN SATRIA, Telkomsat Marah Putih 2, and 12 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean. Both Galileo satellites were successfully deployed. Pic by Cosmic Perspective (@considercosmos). Check out that SpaceX branding!

Per Elon, "If the rest of the year goes well, SpaceX will deliver ~90% of all Earth’s payload to orbit. China will do ~6%, rest of the world combined ~4%."

- Metal laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) manufacturer Velo3D signed an Intellectual Property License and Support Services Agreement with SpaceX. The agreement grants SpaceX a non-exclusive license to the entirety of Velo3D’s additive manufacturing technologies. SpaceX will pay $5 million for the deal, with an additional $3 million for support services related to the contract.

- Starship Gazer (@StarshipGazer) spotted a new delivery today; Tower 2's Ship Quick Disconnect (SQD) Arm Hinge.

- Per Elon, "The FAA space division is harassing SpaceX about nonsense that doesn’t affect safety while giving a free pass to Boeing even after NASA concluded that their spacecraft was not safe enough to bring back the astronauts. There need to be resignations from the FAA leadership."

- This morning, the Polaris Dawn's Crew Dragon Resilience was spotted by Jenny Hautmann (@JennyHPhoto). SpaceX recovery vessel Shannon has brought the slightly toasted capsule back to Cape Canaveral. Follow and support Jenny!

- It is very possible that some of Booster 11 from IFT-4 is being recovered. The vessel HOS Ridgewind of Hornbeck Offshore has been at the splashdown point of B11 for the past four days. Interesting...

- Yesterday, Texas' 3rd Congressional District Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) sent a letter to the FAA to expedite the agency's review process for Starship. Per Keith, "I am disappointed that the FAA appears to have been swayed by false narratives from the national media... Our national security cannot afford to let incorrect information delay American innovation, and I strongly encourage your agency to quickly approve SpaceX's proposal to increase their launch cadence at Starbase from 5 to 25 launches a year."

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

Launch 94! 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 95! 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.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- Massive Boring Company Update by Michel! First, the Vegas Loop LVCC South Hall dig site. Per Michel, "You can see the size and depth of the pit. It’s enormous. Probably 20 times the size of what they dug at Riviera Station."

- Second, Michel hit LVCC Central Hall station. Two tunnels are already here that move up to the street level. Construction of the entrance and gates has started.

- Third, Michel stopped by the Virgin Station. He spotted new wall pieces delivered and lots of heavy equipment. The bridge crane looks sturdier than before.

- And Forth, the Paradise station located directly east of the Virgin North self parking lot. Per Michel, "Clearly they are tunneling north from here. No one working at the time I visited."

Please follow Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere) and support his great Boring updates. If not for him we would not this amazing access to the Vegas LOOP projects.

- At Giga Texas, Joe Tegtmeyer spotted that the Boring crews have erected the wall blocking any views of the work on the interior Cyber-Tunnel entrance. On the westside electrical conduit installation has started on the outside. According to Joe, "The horizontal drilling & excavation pits are ready to install the natural gas pipe under the tunnel." Great work by Joe!

■ NEURALINK:

- Elon on the FDA's Breakthrough Device Designation of Blindsight, "The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see. Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time. To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential to be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge. Much appreciated, FDA!"

■ STARLINK:

- - Senators John Thune, Ted Cruz, Roger Wicker, Deb Fischer, Marsha Blackburn, Todd Young, Ted Budd, Cynthia Lummis, and Eric Schmitt have sent Vice President Kamala Harris a letter over her mismanagement of the $42 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to expand internet to rural areas. This is the program that the FCC unreasonably removed Starlink from.

- REDtone in collaboration with the Malaysian Ministry of Communications recently installed Starlink in Kampung Mondikot, Sabah, to provide free internet access to the local community. This initiative is aimed at offering internet service to the remote and underserved areas, ensuring that rural communities can access reliable connectivity.

- Starlink is now available in Yemen.

- Regent Seven Seas Cruises announced that they have finished installing Starlink through out their 6 vessel fleet. Per Elon replied by saying, "You can play real-time video games on Starlink, whereas that is impossible with geostationary satellites that are ~50 times further away. Speed of light is the law."

■ X:

- Yesterday in New York, X held their 3rd Client Council to a packed house of partners and friends. CEO Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) and the X Team demonstrated the pace of innovation at X, and why the platform has become indispensable. Per Linda, "I could not be more proud of the X team and all of their hard work!"

- X has been approved for their Money Transmitter License in Texas. They now have licenses in 38 states.

- Yesterday, in a odd twist, the White House's Karine Jean-Pierre told reporter Raquel Krähenbühl of Brazil’s TV Globo, "When it comes to social media, we have been very clear that we think that folks should have access to social media. It’s a form of freedom of speech." Elon responded by saying, "Unexpected, but appreciated."

- On X the NFL has had over 1.3B video views, +30% YoY. Week 2 drew over 539M video views and 6.1M total posts globally.

■ xAI:

- The Grok "Analyze image" button will soon be active. Video by Tech Dev Notes (@techdevnotes).

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon via his @cyb3rgam3r420 account posted that he "Finally cleared Pit 150 before the clock ran out (Still only have a single GA Starless Skies ring)."

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