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Exploring Tesla tech | Real-world Tesla Self Driving tests, Tesla software updates, EV insights, Model Y mods & sharing my EV journey. $TSLA & $SPCX investor 🚀

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Nobody who switched to GPS ever went back to printing out directions and unfolding a paper map at red lights. Full Self-Driving (Supervised) feels like that kind of switch. You can't quite remember how you put up with the old way.

[Tesla @Tesla]

There's life before experiencing FSD Supervised, and there's life after

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@XCreators Tesla delivery day posts just went from one photo of the car with a bow to the whole day: the keys, the first charge, the first drive home.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Seven years ago today, this was the whole plan: six German-flag hearts and two words.

Since then, that factory has built 750,000+ cars, and it just turned out 7,000 Model Y in a single week.

Some announcements age into an entire skyline.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🖤♥️💛 GIGA BERLIN 💛♥️🖤

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@cybrtrkguy I have a scheduled appointment tomorrow. Hopefully they give me a loaner so I can see if the service-complete notification shows up on it too.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Most people picture a data center like a kettle, boiling off water all day. SpaceX says this one works more like a car radiator. Fill it once and reuse the same water for up to 10 years.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

From the Rio Grande Valley, TX to Cochise County, AZ, we’re building more than supercomputers. We’re creating jobs, investing in critical infrastructure, expanding local tax bases, and working alongside communities to build a future that benefits the people who live there → https://t.co/r3OUzN0ppJ

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Most backup power is a generator sitting there hoping it never gets used. This one would be working every day, smoothing out the grid for the neighbors too.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@UnpluggedTesla I'm in for the CyberSUV LHD

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Minutes before this, an engine shut down and the answer was no go for orbit. Then they worked the problem and the answer changed. Most of us never get to hear a plan get saved out loud.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Everyone has that one bill they pay without thinking twice. Mine pays me back a little now. https://t.co/Kn8mW2W5RA

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Years from now, some people will say they got one of the last Cybertrucks off the line. Others will say they almost did.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In order to work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog, production will be extended through the end of summer 2027

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

100 GW a year of cell making equipment sounds like a country's energy plan, not one company's purchase order. That tells you how big Starmind is meant to get.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX has ordered 100 GW/year of HJT solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus in Germany.

This is for Starmind to create a sentient sun.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@elonmusk Every car guy has one car he would keep forever, even when it makes zero sense on paper.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

A dish on the roof used to mean you lived too far out for cable. Now it might just mean you got tired of waiting on the cable guy.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX's Starlink is getting significantly faster across the U.S., while also attracting more customers from traditional DSL, cable, and fixed wireless providers, according to a new Ookla report.

Highlights:
• Starlink urban users are also growing faster than rural users.
• Median upload speeds surged 42% year-over-year, from 14.63 Mbps in 1H 2025 to 20.73 Mbps in 1H 2026, and improved in all 50 states and D.C., with gains ranging from 25% to 70%.
• The number of Starlink Speedtest users testing in urban areas grew at more than twice the rate of rural users from 1H 2025 to 1H 2026. Urban users grew faster than rural users in every state but Alaska and Hawaii.
• Starlink latency improved in nearly every state. Median multi-server latency improved year-over-year in 49 states and Washington, D.C.

SpaceX's next-gen Starlink V3 sats will help improve speeds and latency significantly.

Full report: https://t.co/JbGzBQtBOj

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

7 years ago today, 60 Starlink satellites was SpaceX's heaviest payload ever, flown on the first Falcon 9 to fly a fourth mission.

Starlink now operates 11,000+ satellites. That record batch would be about half a percent of today's fleet.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@wholemars If only 1% of miles end up manually driven, driving turns into what horseback riding is today. People still do it because they love it, not because they need to get somewhere.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Most people learn a new driver assist on easy summer roads. Finnish drivers get to learn this one heading into winter, about the toughest classroom in Europe.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

@ChuckCook Happy Veterans Day, Chuck. Thank you for your service and for remembering those who didn't make it home.

Watching Charlie get his Navy Wings next month as the fourth generation is something special. Congrats to the family.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Every carrier's coverage map is a patchwork of towers. A satellite carrier's map is just the sky. If Starlink Mobile gets there, "no bars" stops depending on where you're standing.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The FCC has just announced that it has accepted @SpaceX's application to buy 800 MHz spectrum wireless spectrum from Grain Management, a major step for Starlink Mobile becoming a major carrier in the U.S.

Info:
• 546 paired spectrum licenses covering approximately 100% of the U.S. population.
• Up to 14 MHz of spectrum across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• SpaceX plans to use the spectrum to support satellite-to-phone connectivity.
• Public comments are due December 1, with oppositions due December 8.

The transaction still requires final FCC approval.

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Internet used to mean finding an outlet first. Now the dish doesn't need one.

[Starlink @Starlink]

Introducing Mini 2, the next-generation portable Starlink. Get up to 4.5 hours of connectivity on a single charge with the quick-swap battery, or plug in with USB-C.

With built-in Wi-Fi, all you need is a clear view of the sky to get online in 60 seconds.

Preorders are now open by invitation in the US. Be the first to know when it's available → https://t.co/t2pSI1buaW

[TeslaBuilt @Tesla_Built]

Phones got Direct to Cell first. If ordinary 4G devices can connect too, almost anything with a cell chip can work off grid.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink brings standard 4G hardware online from space in a successful New Zealand field test.

Two Fibocom modules sent data through Starlink Direct to Cell using the hardware and software they already had. With a clear view of the sky, they connected in about 1 to 30 seconds. Downloads reached 2.2 Mbps, and uploads were around 0.3 Mbps.

That could let farm sensors send readings and equipment trackers report their location from places cell towers can’t reach.