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

Published:
2025-05-20 20:07:08
Imported:
2026-06

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20th of May, 2025

"Congrats WSJ on your new name of BSJ!" - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA $TSLA ($343.82, +0.51%):

- Elon talked with David Faber today live from the Giga Factory in Austin, Texas. Elon says hundreds of thousands of Teslas will be running in the U.S. on FSD (Unsupervised) in 2026. He also says There are a number of automakers that have talked to us about licensing FSD.

- David also spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy discussed EVs, autonomous vehicles, and bringing jobs back to America.

- Per Tesla’s Country Director for Australia and New Zealand, Thom Drew, "There’s currently no blockers in Australia to releasing Full Self Driving Supervised, as we have in North America. It’s something our business is working on releasing. I don’t have a timeline currently for you, but it’s certainly very exciting to be able to bring that to a market that doesn’t have a regulatory blocker."

- The Supercharger below the national soccer stadium at Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway. Built originally 20 stalls in 2022, it expanded to 28 in 2023. Now, as of the 1st of May, an additional 12 V4 has been installed, making it a total 40 stalls.

- Tesla is now looking to certified Powerwall 3 installers in the Netherlands.

- WEnergy Global's Sabang microgrid in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, hosted Secretary of the Department of Energy Raphael Lotilla and a joint DoE-NPC team. The site integrates 1.458 MWp solar power, and 2.436 MWh Tesla battery storage connected by 14 km of smart gridlines, powering nearly 600 households and institutions with 24/7 electricity near the UNESCO-listed Puerto Princesa Underground River.

- Chattrawat Prasertsuk, Tesla's Thailand Consumer Engagement Manager, and his Team kicked off their newest Pop-up store at Central Festival Chiang Mai today. This is the same place they brought the Cybertruck tour last year. This time they brought the new Model Y and 3 to test drive. The store will be there from the 20th of May through the 2nd of June.

- Tesla China insured 11,130 new vehicles last week.

- Tesla was at the Pilsen Motor Show in the Czech Republic offering a firsthand experience with the new Model Y, Model 3 Performance, and an X. Pics by Tesla's Jakub Jablecki.

■ SPACEX:

- Flight 9 is now schedule for Tuesday the 27th.

- Last night, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-15 had an auto abort just prior to T-0. SpaceX says the vehicle and payload are in good health, and teams are resetting for a launch attempt today. They have not stated as to why they had to abort.

- SpaceX will soon start the overhaul of Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg. This will be their 2nd launch site at the Space Force base and be capable of launching Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. They plan to installed two landing pads. The ground system overhaul includes 143,000-square-feet of commodity storage for things like liquid oxygen, rocket propellant-1 (RP-1), nitrogen, helium, water and other commodities. The two new landing zones at SLC-6 would be 280 feet in diameter with each concrete pad surrounded by a 60-foot gravel apron.

- The latest images from GEOSAT (@geosat_sat) shows SpaceX's progress at Kennedy Space Center on the Starship Pad at Launch Complex 39-A, and the Giga Bay ground work on Robert's Road.

- Starship 38 LOX barrel section was spotted leaving the Starfactory and moving into Mega Bay 2. Booster 18 common dome was moved into Mega Bay 1.

- Beautiful shots of Starbase by Carlos (@cnunezimages). Subscribe to Carlos and support his work.

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

  • Launch 62! Tuesday, 20th of May, at 11:18 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! Wednesday, 21st of May, at 2:20 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 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 65! Sunday, 25th 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 66! Tuesday, 27th 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:

- A Boring Revolution (@BoringPrufrock) has released a new episode on TBC hitting the Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT) milestone.

■ NEURALINK:

- Per Elon, "Neuralink has now helped five patients restore capability using the telepathy implants where they're able to control a computer simply by thinking."

■ STARLINK:

- Andrew Deptford of Bright Spark Studio successfully live-streamed a 90-minute event from a remote location with no on-site connectivity and limited 4G coverage, while also providing network connectivity for the client. The solution utilized a bonded Peplink system with two Starlinks and two high-gain directional LTE modems.

- Starlink officially announced their service in active in Bangladesh.

- Today, South Africa’s government proposed a workaround for Starlink to bypass the country’s B-BBEE laws, which require 30% Black ownership for telecom licenses. These laws have prevented Starlink from operating in South Africa, despite its presence in 17 other African countries. The proposal comes ahead of a meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump.

■ X:

- X's Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) and Romina (@itsRoMeeNa) were at the White House yesterday as President Trump signed the Take It Down Act. "Grateful to First Lady Melania Trump for her dedication to ensuring safety. X will continue to work alongside Senators Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Nancy Mace, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to do everything possible to make the internet safer, especially for children."

- X announced that Pearson and Lisa Shalet have reached an agreement to settle the dispute in connection with her employment. Ms. Shalet was forced to resign from her position at Pearson due to her personal posts about her protected philosophical beliefs on X. X, along with the Free Speech Union and James Murray of Doyle Clayton Solicitors, are proud to have been able to support her claim to vindicate her free speech rights.

-Starting today, you can also download "Request a Community Note" data. Anyone on X can request a note. Requestors don't have to meet signup criteria or earn the ability to make requests, so request data can be noisy and of variable quality. Currently requests are shown to Top Writers when there are enough requests on a post.

■ xAI:

- xAI's Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX) showed us the accelerated pace of getting Colossus 2 online. The above image is 168 ($160 million) newly delivered Tesla Megapacks. Per Brent, "Let’s see how many Megapacks we can fit into a few square feet. Grid resilience and battery back-up are key to ensuring a successful future for xAI and the region. GROK Loves the megapacks!"

- xAI is partnering with Kalshi to provide AI-powered insights for prediction market bets, processing news articles, and historical data to deliver real-time context for events like central bank decisions, political races, and global affairs. It will be trained partly on X's platform content. Both companies committing significant engineering resources. This follows Kalshi’s 2024 election surge and a Robinhood partnership.

Per Elon, "Colossus 2 will be the first Gigawatt AI training supercluster."

- xAI is working on adding screen sharing support for Grok on iOS.

- Grok has added the ability to draw sketches and use them in prompts and generating images on desktop.

■ DOGE:

Estimated Savings: $170 Billion

Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $1,055.90

- DOGE announced they and the Census Bureau are reviewing all 102 surveys that cost the U.S. $2.2 billion. So far, 5 surveys have been terminated, totaling 493 pages of questions and $16.5 million in costs. They included questions:

  • “In your entire life, have you had at least 12 drinks of any kind of alcohol, not counting small tastes or sips?”

  • “Was this MOSTLY regular wine, wine coolers, or fortified wine?”

  • “How frequently do you use the internet in your home?”

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon's full heated interview at the Qatar Economic Forum. Per Elon, "Congrats WSJ on your new name of BSJ! BS is so much more accurate."

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