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ELON CHRON: Your 24hr Musk Companies Update (Patreon)

Published:
2025-05-02 00:28:49
Imported:
2026-06

Content

1st of May, 2025

"It is difficult to convey with words just how messed up the systems are! Tech Support is sorely needed..." - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA $TSLA ($280.52, -0.58%):

- Today, Tesla's Maria Chamilaki and Areti Soulaki hosted an exclusive demo drive event of a Model Y and 3 on Poros Island, Greece, during the yearly Yacht Festival. The event combined luxury and stunning views... must have lost my invite in the mail...

- Tesla AI (@Tesla_AI) wants us to know that June 1st if 31 days away!

- Tesla is hiring over 1,000 workers for the Giga Nevada Semi Factory to ramp up production. Manufacturing is to begin by the end of 2025 with an annual capacity of 50,000 units.

- The Tesla Centre in Cork, Ireland, held the first Insights Forum and drew a crowd to discus industry challenges. Derek Reilly hosted the panel of Russell Vickers, Andy McKie, and Robert McHutcheon. Each shared insights from their varied businesses. Tesla's Luke Nipper and Melanie Naughton set the stage for the event and brought topics on EV infrastructure, public perceptions, and innovative ideas for Ireland’s EV future. Those in attendance test-drove Model Ys and 3s and hung out with Optimus.

- Tesla has placed a Model 3 Popup Store at the Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth, UK. Per Tesla's Matilda R., "It’s been a long time coming and I’m so proud of all the team involved for opening our new pop up - facilitating test drives and helping to educate more and more people about Tesla!"

- Tesla's Moritz Gutbrod announced a new program called Hardware Sales where you can brand your own Supercharger and/or set your own prices. Basically this enables businesses to buy and white-label Superchargers, offering custom pricing and integration into Tesla’s charging network. Tesla will handle the maintenance as well. Tesla will let you experience this at the Power2Drive event in Munich from the 7th - 9th of May at Booth C6.670. ),

- Tesla launched a Voice AI agent for general vehicle customer support that utilizes service manuals and common questions to assist owners. This follows their AI chatbot on the website and the Tesla Insurance AI agent. My question, are they powered by Grok?

- Good friend Micah Moore (@mjm012) drove to The Woodlands, Texas, service center where a huge number of Teslas are staged. "When I asked, they said they are preparing to be a delivery location as well! Very cool to see so many new vehicles in one place getting ready for new homes!" He also spotted this sick Lunar Silver Model X in the showroom. Everybody follow Micah!

- A gorgeous Good Faith Energy (@GoodFaithEnergy) 465 tile 33.48 kW Tesla Solar Roof in Highland Park, Texas, with 4 Powerwalls.

- Tesla's Board Chair Robyn Denholm and Elon have responded to the Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) story that Tesla is looking to replace Elon as CEO. Per Robyn, "Earlier today, there was a media report (WSJ) erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company. This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published). The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead."

Per Elon, "It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors! WSJ is a discredit to journalism. It’s not that all WSJ stories are fake, but they are almost all mean-spirited and deceptive."

- Yesterday, the American Clean Power Association (ACP) announced a $100 billion investment in U.S.-made grid batteries to meet 100% of domestic energy storage demand by 2030 to address rising electricity needs from AI data centers. Tesla Energy VP Mike Snyder (@mike_megapack) highlighted batteries as the fastest-deployable grid asset, "You really can’t grow that fast without an all-of-the-above energy solution. Personally I don’t think you can do it without battery storage."

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

  • Fremont Factory: MetGod, 1st of May, '25. Production is up. Starlink Gateway looks complete. Lost of castings staged. Follow MetGod on YouTube to support his work.

  • Giga Berlin: Tobias Lindh (@tobilindh), 30th of April, '25. Production is up. Graffiti is almost finished. New Phase 2 warehouse getting roof struts. Follow Tobi here on X and Subscribe to him on YouTube to support his work.

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 30th of April, '25. More Cybercab castings. Ramping of the Long Range RWD Cybertruck. Cortex Support Facility progress. Subscribe to Joe and support his work.

■ SPACEX:

- On Tuesday Starship 35 was sent to Massey's test site and I totally missed it. Wednesday night, propellant was loaded and Ship got frosty, but late into the test everything was vented. Last night we got to see some action. SpaceX performed a 6 second single engine static fire. Pics by SpaceX and Fabian Ramirez (@texas_lizard). Follow Fabian for awesome pics around Starbase.

- That's one way to do it... Taking down the west side of the Starfactory for Giga Bay.

- The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has voted 19 to 9 to move Jared Isaacman’s nomination as the next NASA Administrator to a full U.S. Senate vote.

- 1 flight versus 20 flights. Yesterday, Booster B1094 next to the veteran B1077. Great pic by Gavin (@tweetsiphotos).

Countdown to 180 (50 - Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

  • Launch 53! Wednesday, 30th of April, at 10:17 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-75 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 54! Thursday, 1st of May, at 11:27 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 15-3 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 55! Saturday, 3rd of May, at 9:40 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-93 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 56! Sunday, 4th of May, at 4:48 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-84 will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- According to Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere), he drove down Paradise Road by UNLV's Thomas and Mac Center. "You can clearly see tunnels coming out of the ground to surface level. Boring equipment on site. This is less than a mile to the Airport." I was not expecting to hear that. TBC has ramped things up for Vegas. Michel will try to get us some pics after his business trip. Follow and support Michel.

■ NEURALINK:

- Neuralink received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA to develop technology restoring communication for individuals with severe speech impairment due to ALS, stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological conditions. Affected individuals can join Neuralink's Patient Registry through the link in the sources section.

Per Neuralink's DJ Seo (@djseo_), "Our third Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA (after Telepathy and Blindsight). This time, we’re targeting speech-motor areas instead of the hand knob to enable direct brain-to-text or brain-to-voice. No mouse, no keyboard. Excited to build on pioneering work from Frank Willett (@WillettNeuro), Sergey Stavisky (@SergeyStavisky), and Eddie Chang labs showing 3–4x faster communication (60–80 words per minute) to approach natural speech speed!"

Per Shivon Zilis (@shivon), "Beyond excited to see what we can achieve with this!"

■ STARLINK:

- According to Aviation Week, the U.S. Marine Corps has equipped the Sikorsky VH-92 presidential helicopter, known as "Marine One," with SpaceX’s Starshield. This is the military-grade version of Starlink. This makes M1 the first helicopter globally to feature this technology. This deployment follows challenges with the VH-92’s Mission Communications System (MCS), which provides secure and non-secure voice and data communications but faced prolonged development issues before being deemed operationally effective in 2023 by the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is also expanding Starshield’s use to other aircraft, including the F/A-18 Super Hornet and E-2D Hawkeye.

- Here is the new Starlink Router Mini I reported about last week. It is priced at $40 and extends Wi-Fi range for Starlink dishes in smaller homes or dead spots. It has dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz with 2x2 2.4GHz and 2x3 5GHz MU-MIMO, WPA2 security, and operating temperatures from -22°F to 122°F. It covers 1,200 square feet compared to the Gen 3 Router's 3,200. It supports Starlink Mesh networks but performs best with no more than three nodes. It is not compatible to wirelessly mesh with Starlink Gen 1 routers or 3rd party mesh systems.

■ X:

- X CEO Linda Yaccarino's conversation with Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) at the Possible Event (@PossibleEvent) today. She spoke on her vision for X as a platform, xAI and the merger, plus much more. "Community Notes is a global collective intelligence that is holding each other accountable at scale and almost in real time. It’s the megaphone of Community Notes vs the whisper of legacy media fact checking."

- X Japan and Horipro, the Japanese talent agency that manages actors, entertainers and musicians, announced a collaboration and X Original conent .

- P4mui (@P4mui) has found the requirements to be eligible to X Money.

- X is about to roll out 4k video uploads from content creators. It will soon be available for all Premium subscribers.

- X Video has Auto-generated captions. Users can turn captions on or off in the video settings.

- X Shop is now international! Get your orders in EU, UK, Canada, and Japan.

- Labels are now mandatory for PCF (Parody, Commentary, and Fan) accounts. They must use the required keywords at the beginning of their names, include them in their bios, and not use identical profile images as the original accounts.

- In 2024, users across the various X platforms viewed gaming feeds 34 billion times.

- X APAC execs Alan Lan (@bluealan) and Rish (@S_Rishabh) will be sharing bite-sized content to next in advertising insights for day two of the WAVES India Summit (@WAVESummitIndia). This is a large convention for the Audio Visual & Entertainment industry.

■ xAI:

- According to the Verge, Microsoft is set to host Grok on its Azure cloud platform through the Azure AI Foundry. This will enable developers to integrate Grok into applications and allow Microsoft to potentially use it in its own apps and services.

- Per Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX), "As we say, xAI is creating the new operating system for humanity. On the X and xAI merger, you have this profound differentiator because the other AI offerings are static and are not powered by the real-time data of X combined with the super capabilities of xAI."

- Grok Studio has a new console for HTML previews.

■ DOGE:

Estimated Savings: $160 Billion

Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $993.79

- Elon DOGE member Big Balls will be on Jesse Watters Primetime the today at 8PM ET on FOX News.

- Per Elon, "The DOGE team is making a real difference fixing broken software, computer, and communications systems in the government."

- DOGE announced that in the last two days, agencies terminated 179 contracts with a ceiling value of $1.87 billion and savings of $280 million, This included

  • $1.8M US Trade & Development contract for “energy and climate advisory services”

  • $207k HHS consulting contract for a “grant writing workshop”

  • $89k Treasury contract for a “country program manager in Namibia”

- DOGE announced that in the past 3 weeks, the US Department of Agriculture terminated 420 grants totaling $2.5 billion in award value and $2.3 billion in savings. This included:

  • $150k for “gender lensed curricula designed to be transdisciplinary in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences”

  • $100k for "climate resilience and sustainable agriculture in Ghana"

  • $361k for "gender non- conforming, non-binary, two-spirit" BIPOC farmers in New York

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon at yesterday's Trump cabinet meeting. "They say I wear a lot of hats—even my hat has a hat..."

- White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, "Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect... It really doesn’t matter much that Elon hasn’t been here physically. He’s not out of it altogether. He’s just not physically present as much as he was. The people that are doing this work are here doing good things and paying attention to the details. He’ll be stepping back a little, but he’s certainly not abandoning it. And his people are definitely not."

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■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

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Neuralink:

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xAI:

Elon News:

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