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

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2025-05-19 20:05:12
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19th of May, 2025

"Provided the compute cluster is also willing to reduce power usage in high sigma situations..." - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

ATTN: Here you go! Click the link for the Tesla Memorial Day Weekend Event! It will be this Saturday, May 24th, from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. CT at the Tesla Houston Cypress Center. Music, giveaways, extended demo drives, refreshments, food vendors, and more! In or around or nowhere near Houston, if you want to come, RSVP and meet us there to celebrate Memorial Day and Customer Appreciation.

Tesla Houston Cypress 19820 Hempstead Highway Houston, TX 77065

■ TESLA $TSLA ($342.09, -2.25%):

- New pics of the Tesla Diner by the Starbase Tourist (@starbasetourist). "I checked out Tesla Diner. Can’t wait for this to be open. Can you imagine when they have Optimus servers, it will be real life Star Wars cantina!"

- Last Friday, Tesla, its shareholders, and directors filed reply briefs with the Delaware Supreme Court, challenging the Chancery Court's 2024 decision to rescind Elon's $56 billion compensation package. The briefs argue the 2024 shareholder ratification vote should stand, question Musk's classification as a controlling shareholder with less than 50% stock, and contest the $345 million attorney fee award to plaintiff Richard Tornetta. The hearing is expected in August this year and a verdict by November or December. Ale𝕏andra Merz (@TeslaBoomerMama) has written a great X Article about it. Link in the sources section.

- The Model Y Delivery Event in Thailand and a Glacier Blue at Thailand’s southernmost point. Pic by Chattrawat Prasertsuk Tesla Consumer Engagement Manager.

- Per Tesla China VP Grace Tao Lin, "Every Tesla car is one of the safest in the world, dedicated to protecting every occupant in the car. Traditional crash tests are usually based on the average adult body size, but our design philosophy is always committed to reducing the risk of injury to all occupants, regardless of size, riding position and accident scenario."

- The new Charlottesville, Virginia, location is now open. Pic by Mohammad Tawil Tesla, Tesla's Regional Manager, Mid-Atlantic South.

- Tesla Energy (@teslaenergy) announced they paid out $9.9 million to Powerwall owners who supported the grid through Virtual Power Plant (VPP) participation in 2024.

- Tesla Shop now offers the $250 charcoal suede dashboard décor upgrade for 2024+ Model 3 and 2025+ Model Y. This was originally featured in the Launch Series Model Y.

- TechOperator (@TechOperator) posted pics of the new Tesla Service Center and Gallery in Flower Mound, Texas.

- Tesla is accepting Cybertruck Foundation Series trade-ins.

- In Q1, the Ford F-150 Lightning became the best EV truck at 7,913 registrations. The Cybertruck dropped to 2nd place with 7,126 registrations. 3rd place went to the Chevy Silverado. 4th to the GMC Sierra. And 5th was the Rivian R1T.

- Japan is considering subsidies for Supercharger sites as part of U.S. tariff negotiations. Japan used to show exclusive support for the CHAdeMO standard but it has faded globally and largely replaced by Tesla’s NACS and the EU-mandated CCS.

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 19th of May, '25. Production gearing up for the week. Cortex 2.0 facility, Megapack 2, and Switchyard 2 progress.

  • Giga Nevada: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 18th of May, '25. HVAC progress. New light posts. Electrical supply is in-progress for the Semi Assembly lines.

■ SPACEX:

- Congratulations, SpaceX's Mike (@MikeCoryell) and Brie Coryell! Here are some images from their wedding at Starbase by Mike and his friends on Instagram. Mike was Elon's man he sent to North Carolina after Hurricane Helene ravaged the east coast. He brought Starlink and portable Tesla Powerwalls to thousands in need. Mega Bay 2 pic by Carlos (@cnunezimages).

- Booster 14 has been removed from the launch mount Friday night and soon rolled back to production. Both NOTAM and NOTMARs have updated Flight 9 to the 27th. As I said Friday, Memorial Day was probably a no-go. Still no word on what is causing the delay with Starship 35.

- Saturday, Tower 2 at Pad B underwent more Chopstick load testing with the infamous water filled load test ballast bags.

- Latest image of the demolition of the High Bay by Shaun Gisler (@lifeatstagezero).

- SpaceX acquired Akoustis, a bankrupt radio frequency (RF) filter manufacturer, for $30M. RF filters are crucial for reducing satellite communication interference. Akoustis specialized in XBAW RF filters for 5G, Wi-Fi, and defense. This will improve Starlink’s terrestrial and handheld device performance and bolster Starlink's supply chain.

- Gorgeous shot by Carlos (@cnunezimages) of the SpaceX HQ and Mega Bay 1 with Super Heavy Boosters in the background.

Countdown to 180 (58 - Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

  • Launch 62! Monday, 19th of May, at 11:40 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-15 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 63! Tuesday, 20th of May, at 2:42 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-16 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 64! Saturday, 24th of May, at 9:14 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 17-1 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 65! Saturday, 24th of May, at 1:19 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-22 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 66! Monday, 26th of May, at 6:30 p.m. CT, Starship 35 Super Heavy Booster 14 (Flight 9) will launch from Orbital Launch Mount A (OLM-A) at Starbase, Texas. The booster will perform a soft splashdown in the Gulf of America. Starship 35 will doing a controlled soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- Per Steve Hill, LVCVA President and CEO, the Vegas Loop is accelerating its expansion after one of the main holdups in getting the latest stations opened had to do with fire safety. TBC, the LVCVA, and Clark County officials have worked to come up with the best path forward to allow for further expansion. Tunneling is underway beneath Paradise Road, and UNLV's University Center Loop is under construction near Thomas & Mack Center. Steve also stated that TBC has six boring machines that are available to dig at a given time, with three already in the ground in Las Vegas.

■ NEURALINK:

- The Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, where Neuralink will launched its first international clinical trial, UAE-PRIME.

■ STARLINK:

- Star Wars day at the Starlink Factory in Bastrop, Texas. Pic by SpaceX's Trevor Scott (@TrevorScottReal).

- SpaceX has expanded its Starlink "Residential Lite" plan, priced at $80 per month, to over 30 US states, including parts of Alaska, California, Texas, and New England. This plan offers unlimited data with download speeds of 50-100Mbps. This is slower than the $120 standard residential plan's 150-250Mbps, and may experience reduced speeds during peak hours due to deprioritization.

- Madison Jones CEO of Additive at Scale had the opportunity to tour the Starlink factory in Bastrop. "The dishes were being made using fully automated injection molding capabilities."

■ X:

- Here are the latest update from X's Fred Lohner (@FredLohner) regarding the X Lite Android alpha testing.

  • Will be adding another ~100 or so people to the alpha test.

  • We think we have a fix for the "black screen of death", please update and do let us know if you see it again.

  • Fix for the rendering issue on text folks have reported.

  • Fixed full-bleed image rendering and aspect-ratio issues when scaling pictures.

  • Preserved video playback state when cancelling predictive back gestures in timelines.

  • Aligned search refresh with caching, so pull-to-refresh always displays new results.

  • Ensured the notifications tab reloads fresh data each time it gains focus.

- Per P4mui (@P4mui), XChat inbox for Android now has the same design as iOS. Plus bugs for sending and downloading messages has been fixed.

■ xAI:

- You will soon be able to schedule a task that Grok will do automatically.

- xAI's Attila (@ablenessy) announced Material YOU and recent Material Design new theme is now available for SuperGrok on Android.

- Grok can now be prompted to make data charts.

- Grok now has PRIVATE CHAT where you discussion with automatically vanishes from your history.

■ DOGE:

Estimated Savings: $170 Billion

Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $1,055.90

- DOGE and the USPS announced 8,639 contracts were reviewed, resulting in the cancellation or modification of 1,076 contracts with $188.5 million in savings. This included a $791k contract for “Negotiation Skills Training” and $100k for "CIO All Hands Meeting - Overflow Hotel Rooms".

- DOGE announced the termination of 262 contracts with a ceiling value of $1.2 billion and savings of $230 million. This included $13.8 million marketing research DEI contract to provide “analytical and initiative support on building the case for health equity”.

■ ELON NEWS:

- Maye Musk (@mayemusk) came across Elon's 17yo computer aptitude test results and posted it for us. "My genius boy. Proud mom."

Per Elon, "They said I scored the highest for engineering aptitude that they had ever seen. Or, in other words, not bad for a human, as a future AI might say."

- Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. ET, Elon will chat at the Qatar Economic to discuss DOGE, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink and more.

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Have a great day!

■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

Tesla:

SpaceX:

The Boring Company:

Starlink:

xAI:

Elon News:

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