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

30th of October, 2024

"AI art is incredible and will be only more so..." - Elon

■ TESLA $TSLA ($257.55, -0.76%):

- Cybercab at the Fremont Factory by Tesla Battery Engineer Prabhjyot Kaur Juneja.

- In California, Year to Date thru September, Tesla has 71% of all EV registrations among the top 15 selling EVs. The Model Y was No.1 at 48%. The Model 3was no.2 at 17%. The Model X was 6 at 3%. Cybertruck was No.8 at 3%.

- Tesla Energy's Regional Director of APAC Josef Tadich (pic left) is at the Neoen Australia Collie prjoect. "A huge congratulations to the Neoen Australia team with the opening of the Collie project, we at Tesla are proud to have delivered this on time and on budget with our EPC partner UGL here in Western Australia. A big thanks to all involved!"

- Cybertruck Foundation Series deliveries in Canada begin next week on the 5th of November.

- Tesla's Robbie Duncan at Winchester, UK, with George Putman driving the Tesla FAST Program. "Excellent things coming for the next generation of Tesla teams. George and the Learning & Development division have been innovating behind the scenes. I am impressed."

- Tesla's Charlie Forian and the Southport Queensland, Australia, Team hosted their Info night showcasing innovation, Tesla's latest EV technology, charging options, ease of ownership, long distance travels on the Supercharging network. On hand was Cybertruck and S3XY lineup.

- Cybertruck will be heading to Turkey's Vadi Istanbul Shopping Mall between the 6th and 10th of November. Then, it will be showcased at the Tesla Store in the Armada Shopping Mall in Ankara from the 12th - 14th.

- Starting today, Cybertruck is at Tesla Store in Hesperange, Luxembourg, until the 2nd of November and then at Tesla Roost Center in Bissen, Luxembourg, from the 4th - 5th. Go check it out!

FLYOVERS:

• Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 30th of October, '24. Platforms erected to start rolling out wire for the super computer cluster.

• Giga Nevada Semi Production Facility: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 30th of October.,'24. Roofing insulation is on site and being placed on the roof.

• Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 29th of October, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- Early this morning launch 107 of Falcon 9 Starlink 9-9 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 14th flight for the first stage booster. It previously launched SDA-0A, Transporter-11, SARah-2, and 10 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 20 Starlinks were deployed, including 13 with Direct to Cell.

Per SpaceX's Sr. Director of Satellite Engineering, Ben Longmier (@longmier), "Only 5 more launches left for Starlink Direct to Cell in order to complete the first commercial constellation. We will continue to launch and improve the service after that in order to improve the coverage and latency for our partner telcos around the world."

Per Elon, "This is just the beginning. My guess is that there will be as many Starlink direct to cell phone satellites as there are for our high bandwidth terminals. As a rough rule of thumb, however, bandwidth will be ~1/10th as high for phones vs a dedicated Starlink antenna (physics is the law). Still a major gamechanger."

- Launch 108 of Falcon 9 Starlink 10-13 also took place today from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the 14th flight for the first stage booster. It previously launched mPOWER-B, BlueBird-1, Crew-6, USSF-124, and nine Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. 23 Starlinks were deployed.

- V2 Starship 33 underwent cryo-testing today. Not sure if there will be a static fire test, as their is a road closure in place for tomorrow for transportation operations from Massey's to the production site. We shall see. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages). Subscribe to Carlos!

- Assembly of the mechanical level for the 2nd Orbital Launch Mount has begun.

- NASA has voiced their support for SpaceX's proposal to orbit 400 Starlink satellites at a 300-kilometer orbit, below the International Space Station, for 60 days.

Countdown to 144 (103 - Falcon 9, 2 - Falcon Heavy, and 3 - Starship):

• Launch 109! Saturday, 2nd of November, at 1:56 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-10 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 110! Saturday, 2nd of November, at 4:57 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-77 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Launch 111! Monday, 4th of November, at 11:40 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Cargo Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31 will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This is the 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The booster will land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- The Boring crews have completed installing the Cyber-Tunnel road sections! Per Joe Tegtmeyer, "They are now preparing the west tunnel exit area for the final facing structures and driveways. Much more going on inside the south extension where the other end of the tunnel is located!" Great shot!

- To prove how close the Cyber-Tunnel is to opening, the Austin Fire Department (@austinfiredept) has initiated recurring tunnel safety drills in at the TBC HQ in Bastrop, Texas. "Goal is always to maximize Loop system safety and reliability."

■ NEURALINK:

- Michael Thompson, Equipment Engineer at Neuralink, posted the above flyer and stated, "If you've been waiting for your chance to get into BCI, here's a great one! Check out our website for more opportunities." They are pushing this position hard. Of note; +50 hours per week.

■ STARLINK:

- One New Zealand's Sharina Nisha and T-Mobile's Jeff Giard and Karri Kuoppamaki where at a SpaceX Starlink customer event yesterday. SpaceX's Sr. Director of Satellite Engineering Ben Longmier (@longmier) and Vice President of WW Enterprise Sales Jason Fritch shared how they have revolutionized space technology Falcon 9 and Starlink. T-Mobile, One New Zealand, and KDDI Corporation of Japan are testing Direct to Cell in their countries.

- Starlink display at Curry's of the UK.

- AMD's latest shareholder deck shows that Starlink's latest generation uses their Versal Al Core adaptive SoCs.

- Sam Pullara (@sampullara) posted that "it would be awesome if someone packaged up solar panels + battery + Starlink such that it could run 24/7 in most parts of the world." Elon replied, "Agreed. I guess Starlink could offer that directly too." Package deals make sense. Maybe Tesla can provide the solar and battery. We need a carrying case for it all as well.

- Documentary filmmaker Paul Diffley is testing out his new Starlink Kit for a Remote Live TV show. "Excited to be putting some cutting-edge tech through its paces. Recently got my hands on a new Starlink kit, designed primarily for our remote live broadcasts for Good Morning Britain and This Morning on ITV. The setup connects directly to a LiveU unit via network cable or Wi-Fi and doubles as a remote Wi-Fi hotspot. Mount it to a car, place it on the ground, and power it via hot-swappable V-locks or mains power. Looking forward to seeing how this will expand our remote capabilities."

- Yesterday, Niger Minister Sidi Mohamed Raliou and SpaceX's Ryan Goodnight finalized and signed an agreement to expand Starlink access throughout the country.

- Pegasus Elite Aviation, a private charter company under Prima Air, announced they have installed Starlink Aviation on the world’s first Bombardier Global 5000.

■ X:

- Happy Halloween from X. Pic by X's Sarah (@tkmtsarah).

- Basic Analytics without X Premium now available.

- X Devs has posted that they are changing the Self Serve X API with new pricing options and limits. They include Annual Subscriptions at discounted rates, Basic will increase from $100 to $200 monthly with higher limits and new endpoints, Free experimental Read access, Basic and Pro will have limited top-ups, and Emergency & Public Utility Apps will have 2x higher access levels for free.

- Tech Dev Notes (@techdevnotes) posted that Grok will soon have "image previews" in the feed. When you share the link to image generated by Grok on X, users will see the preview. According to X's Attila (@ablenessy), it is coming to iOS soon and is live for Android and the web.

■ xAI:

- Today, Grok ambassador CS Shin (@csshin707) of X Korea proudly introduced the LLM to the Korean market.

- Per xAI's Heiner Kuttler (@HeinrichKuttler), "It's demanding work, but I feel incredibly lucky I get to work with Elon Musk and the very talented folks at the pretraining team at xAI. It's amazing how smart humans can be."

- Elon at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference speaking with Peter Diamandis.

■ ELON NEWS:

- Wayne Moss from Griffin, Georgia, has won $1 million from Elon's America PAC.

- Elon's America PAC has launched an X Community focused on users reporting potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities.

- More than 87,000 checks have been sent out to people who referred signers of America PAC petition. Another 100,000 checks are being mailed tomorrow.

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■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

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

• Giga Nevada Semi Production Facility: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEDOzwaPjrQ

• Giga Texas: Brad Sloan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIeW1HQGkk

Starlink:

• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pegasus-elite-aviation-launches-first-bombardier-global-5000-with-starlink-wi-fi-302291805.html

Elon News:

• Elon Quote https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851655571302437090