8 years later and we finally have a factory confirmed! 😅 Jokes aside, hearing Franz and Lars confirm alpha testing at Giga Texas means it’s shifting from a myth into reality. Can't wait to see what 'pure performance' looks like from them.
🇺🇸 Tesla execs confirmed the next-gen Roadster will be built in Gigafactory Texas, and alpha prototypes are already testing.
Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen: "a lot of things will start to unfold in the next months."
VP of Engineering Lars Moravy called it the first time Tesla has designed a motor with a "pure performance mentality."
8 years after the original unveiling, it might actually be happening.
Source: Ride the Lightning Podcast
38 airlines have now partnered with SpaceX to bring @Starlink to their fleets, and based on my research, more than 6,300 commercial aircraft already have Starlink installed or are under contract to receive it.
• American Airlines
• Southwest Airlines
• United Airlines
• British Airways
• Singapore Airlines
• Emirates
• Qatar Airlines
• Air France
• Hawaiian Airlines
• Alaska Airlines
• Virgin Atlantic
• Lufthansa
• Korean air
• Air Baltic
• Air Canada
• Aer Lingus
• Air Busan
• Air Dolomiti
• Air New Zealand
• flydubai
• Air Seoul
• Asiana Airlines
• Austrian Airlines
• SWISS Air
• Scandinavian Airlines
• Gulf Air
• Iberia
• Discover Airlines
• ITA Airways
• Vueling
• Brussels Airlines
• Jin Air
• LEVEL
• WestJet
• Edelweiss Air
• JSX
• ZipAir
• Eurowings
and no doubt more to come 😎
NASA just officially unveiled their master plan for a permanent Moon Base at the lunar South Pole
This is not just about flags and footprints. NASA is moving to establish an enduring, sustained human presence, and they are heavily relying on commercial innovators to build it
The roadmap is highly aggressive:
• Phase 1: Heavy robotic missions and commercial payload deliveries
• Phase 2: Semi-permanent infrastructure, including fission surface power and lunar drones
• Phase 3: A sustained, permanent human outpost
The most important takeaway is NASA explicitly stated this base is the ultimate proving ground to prepare humanity for missions to Mars
While legacy aerospace companies are still struggling to reliably get a small capsule to the ISS, NASA is setting the stage for massive lunar infrastructure....which is exactly the kind of heavy-lift planetary deployment SpaceX’s Starship was designed for
The multi-planetary economy is officially kicking off
A Democrat congressional candidate refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance and repeatedly turned her back on the American flag at Sacramento City Council meetings.
My message for Mai Vang and to anyone who thinks about serving in elected office:
That flag is NOT a prop.
It represents the sacrifice of generations of Americans who bled, fought, and died so that free people could disagree openly in this country.
And the least we can do, the absolute bare minimum, is stand for 30 seconds and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
That flag is the one thing that is supposed to unite all of us.
So yes, we should say the pledge.
In Every committee.
Every public meeting.
Every generation of Americans has stood up willing to fight and die for that flag.
The least we can do is stand up and HONOR it.
JUST IN: Elon Musk confirms SpaceX intends to make it impossible to fire him.
"I need to make sure SpaceX stays focused on making life multiplanetary and extending consciousness to the stars, not pandering to someone's bullshit quarterly earnings bonus!"
Elon Musk is the planet’s richest person by far, worth $839 billion as of Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list. He also ranks among the least philanthropic billionaires.
Sure, Musk has transferred $8.5 billion of Tesla stock to his charitable foundations (1% of his net worth)—but nearly all of it is still sitting there idle. Only an estimated $500 million, or 0.06% of Musk’s vast fortune, has ever been disbursed to those in need.
His lack of giving raises a question: What would our billionaires ranking look like if the world’s most generous people had never donated a dollar to charity? https://t.co/La3nLACMYa
Two of the biggest IPOs in history are taking each other to federal court
Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman for $134 billion for fraud and unjust enrichment, per CNBC
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit, but he walked away in 2018 after donating ~$38M
Shortly after, OpenAI took a $1,000,000,000 check from Microsoft and went for-profit
Musk says he was defrauded, meanwhile Altman says Musk knew and backed the conversion
Jury selection starts Monday
If Musk wins: the 'for-profit' structure gets unwound, Altman and Brockman are removed, and all "ill-gotten gains" go back to the nonprofit
If Musk loses: OpenAI goes public this year, battling SpaceX for the largest IPO in history
Yesterday I drove my @tesla 900 miles on FSD from Miami to Nashville and I realized it’s genuinely the better option.
I fly that route 2 to 3 times a month. Flights are never under $400. Most times $600. Sometimes $800.
Add Uber to and from both airports, or parking garage fees. Then factor in the delays, the cancellations, the security theater, the chaos, the guy next to you who hasn’t met deodorant yet.
On the other hand: I pack healthy snacks, press one button, and the car just goes.
I took calls. Replied to emails. FaceTimed my family. Ate without pulling over. Did everything I normally do on a travel day, except none of the stuff that makes travel days miserable.
My biggest concern going in was range and charging. Here’s what actually happened:
My bladder needed one extra stop the car didn’t even suggest. Most charging stops were under five minutes. Total cost for the whole trip was less than just the uber to the airport.
And this was the base model Y.
Now I’m thinking I should get something comfier and just make this the default.
Starlink’s high-speed internet is available in your area.
Experience speeds up to 400+ Mbps to stream your favorite shows and sports, work from home, browse social media and more.
Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket
It’s astonishing just how big the AfD has grown in Germany.
The latest INSA poll has the party at a record-high 28%, twice the size of Germany’s social democratic party SPD.
The only other hard-right parties on this level or higher are FPÖ (🇦🇹 37%), RN (🇫🇷 34%) & FdI (🇮🇹 28%)
"Left wing violence is the problem in America. Charlie Kirk was murde*ed by a left wing radical. President was almost kil*ed. We have a real crisis where there are far too many left wing people who don't want to disagree, but want to try kill their fellow citizens"
一 JD Vance
Elon summed up his entire philosophy in 3 words:
“My philosophy is curiosity & adventure.”
No corporate fluff. No mission statements.
Just pure wonder + the balls to explore the universe
He’s him.