"We were mugged!" - Elon on 65,000 mugs missing from Giga Berlin, 11th of July, 2024.
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■ TESLA TSLA 0.00%↑ ($248.23, +2.99%):
- The Arevon's Condor Energy Storage Project in San Bernardino County, California, is one of the largest battery sites in the US, featuring 200 MW / 800 MWh of Megapacks. It has repurposed a retired steam plant site to enhance grid stability.
- The Brandenburg State Office for the Environment changed the expected approval of the first part of Giga Berlin’s expansion to fall of this year. Tesla and state authorities have agreed to the new schedule.
- Per Elon, "The amount of testing time it takes to figure out if the new AI is better than the existing AI as measured by miles between interventions is the limiting factor on progress. The better FSD gets the longer it takes to find interventions."
- Veenerick Vos Van Liempt visited Tesla in LA and met up with Franz! "Grateful to have met the Tesla design team, talking shop with like minded professionals."
- The Tesla Center in Itabashi, Japan, is holding a lottery for 12 people (2 groups of 6) a chance to ride inside the Cybertruck. You can apply starting today, the 12th of July, until Wednesday, the 24th of July. The ride will be held on the 28th of July. Application is in the sources section.
- A new Tesla Center has been opened in Petikko. The sales team from Vetokuja has moved to this location and now serve customers in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
- The Model 3 Long Range RWD is now available in the US and Puerto Rico starting at $34,990 after the $7,500 Federal tax credit. This vehicle has 363 miles of range with the 18" Photon wheels. 0-60 in 4.9 secs with a top speed of 125 mph.
- All Model Y trims in the US now have Quicksilver as a paint option.
PRICE CHANGE:
United States:
The White interior option for the Model 3 RWD and LR AWD is now $1,000, down from $2,000.
FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 12th of July, '24. The Cathode chiller plant has huge pumps and trailers on site. Joe says they are for possible testing or prep for an expansion. The cooling tower water pipe installation continues. More electrical wiring roof for the Supercomputer cluster is being installed. Subscribe to Joe and support his work.
Fremont Factory: MetGod, 11th of July, '24. Production is pumping. End of line lot is full and outbound lot is busy. MetGod also spotted two Cybertrucks in the outbound lot.
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 11th of July, '24. The westside End of Line is busy. Southend extension is busy as usual.
Giga Nevada: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 10th of July, '24. Mentioned yesterday, but the video is now listed in the source section. The Tesla Semi Factory foundation has started and double the steel is now on-site.
■ SPACEX:
- Last night launch 73 of Falcon 9 Starlink 9-3 launched from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the nineteenth flight of the booster. It previously launched Sentinel-6, Dart, and Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. Pic by Matt Hartman (ShorealoneFilms).
During the flight of the 2nd stage a liquid oxygen leak developed on the second stage. Ice began to build rapidly in large quantities around the engine. After much time passed without an update from SpaceX on a Starlink deployment, I asked Elon if he had an update. He replied, "Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown. Team is reviewing data tonight to understand root cause. Starlink satellites were deployed, but the perigee may be too low for them to raise orbit. Will know more in a few hours."
SpaceX later stated they made contact with five of the satellites so far and were attempting to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters. Elon replied, "We’re updating satellite software to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9. Unlike a Star Trek episode, this will probably not work, but it’s worth a shot. The satellite thrusters need to raise orbit faster than atmospheric drag pulls them down or they burn up."
The FAA is now requiring an investigation into Starlink Group 9-3 to determine public safety before Falcon 9 can return to flight. Per Elon, "We will investigate the issue and look for any other potential near-misses. We are tracking to do more Falcon flights this year than Shuttle did in 30 years, the vast majority of which are uncrewed. A major advantage of this super high flight rate is that we can identify and resolve problems that may only occur once every 1000 flights. This is impossible on a low flight rate vehicle."
This places the Falcon 9 at 334 successful launch streak before an incident.
- Section No.2 for the new Tower was rolled to Pad B last night.
- The FAA will hold public meetings on SpaceX’s proposal to increase the number of launches and landings of Starship Super Heavy in Boca Chica, TX, to 25/year. There will be four in-person public meetings. Two will be held on Tuesday, August 13, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CT at City of South Padre Island Convention Center. Two will be held on Thursday, August 15, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CT at Port Isabel Event & Cultural Center. The virtual public meeting that will be held on the Tuesday, August 20, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CT. You must register for the virtual meeting.
- Super Heavy Booster 12 completed its Spin Prime test today.
Countdown to 144 (70- Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):
Launch 74! Sunday, 14th of July, at 3:35 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-4 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 75! Monday, 15th of July, at 8:40 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. ASBM 1 & 2 are two twin satellites built by Northrop Grumman for Space Norway, in cooperation with Inmarsat and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. They are designed to bring mobile broadband coverage in the Arctic for both civilians and military. The US Air Force provides the Extremely High Frequency eXtended Data Rate payloads on ASBM satellites as part of the Enhanced Polar System. The booster landing area is unknown.
Launch 76! Wednesday, 17th of July, at 2:26 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-5 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.
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■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- Crews continue installing conduit and other utilities into the Cyber-Tunnel and the tunnel end inside of the south extension. Per Joe, "No signs yet of the drivable surface concrete linings being installed."
■ NEURALINK: N/A...
■ STARLINK:
- Armada has announced Microsoft has funded them an extra $40 million to develop mobile data centers tailored for Starlink's broadband network. Armada has received around $100 million from investors and is focusing on deploying AI computing tools designed to empower remotely connected devices. Microsoft is offering Armada's software tools on its Azure cloud including a digital platform for managing Starlink terminals. Armada aims to offer ruggedized data centers the size of shipping containers for its cloud computing ecosystem called Galleons linked via Starlink.
- Per Adzhar Ibrahim, "One of the worst feelings in these modern times is to feel...unconnected. This doesn't happen very often, unless you have the habit of going to remote parts of the world. Then it sucks, until you get back to "civilisation". Unless you have friends who have Starlink."
■ X:
- Let the drama begin! The EU is yet again misrepresenting and threatening X. Commissioner Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) is at it again stating, "Back in the day, Blue Checks used to mean trustworthy sources of information. Now with X, our preliminary view is that they deceive users and infringe the DSA. X has now the right of defence, but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines & require significant changes." Elon replied, "How we know you’re real? 🧐"
EU VP for Digital Age & Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager (@vestager), posted, "In our view X doesn’t comply with the DSA in key transparency areas. It misleads users, fails to provide adequate ad repository and blocks access to data for researchers. It’s the first time we issue preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act." Elon replied, "The DSA IS misinformation! The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not. We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth."
Linda Yaccarino stated, "A democratized system, allowing everyone across Europe to access verification, is better than just the privileged few being verified. We stand with everyone on X and in Europe who believes in the open flow of information and supports innovation."
Thierry's response, "Be our guest Elon. There has never been, and will never be, any “secret deal”. With anyone. The DSA provides X (and any large platform) with the possibility to offer commitments to settle a case. To be extra clear: it’s *YOUR* team who asked the Commission to explain the process for settlement and to clarify our concerns. We did it in line with established regulatory procedures. Up to you to decide whether to offer commitments or not. That is how rule of law procedures work. See you (in court or not)."
- X secured the Money Transmitter License in California. X now has licenses in 33 states.
- Nate Esparza (@Nate_Esparza) posted the pic, "Yet another awkward team photo at HQ!"
■ xAI:
- xAI was announced 1 year ago today.
- Changes have been detected in the features of the web app showing Grok's image generation feature. Coming soon?
■ ELON NEWS: N/A...
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SOURCES
FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer
Fremont Factory: MetGod
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan
Giga Nevada: Zanegler
■ SPACEX:
Tesla:
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-giga-berlin-expansion-approval/
Japan Cybertruck Ride
SpaceX:
