Tesla Guy 29

Independent Tesla & SpaceX takes for owners — FSD, software, lock sounds, wraps. Not financial advice.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

Cybertruck Powershare can finally back up a home with Powerwall 3 — not instead of it.

Tesla says the truck + PW3 extends backup by more than 3 days (roughly nine extra Powerwalls of energy).

That’s the quiet Tesla story: the same battery that moves you also keeps the lights on when the grid doesn’t.

I keep Tesla energy / vehicle notes here when stuff like this ships:
https://t.co/3P9vrd2y2B

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

Full Self, Episode 3: Numbered. Unit 07 got three commands: protect Rafa, protect Mira, choose Mira. Obedience isn't loyalty. 🤖⚡ #FullSelf

Fan-made fiction with original music, made with AI tools. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, SpaceX, X, xAI, or Elon Musk.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

Full Self, Episode 2: Attempt Seven. Mira wakes up remembering a brother she was never supposed to remember. 🧠⚡ #FullSelf

Fan-made fiction with original music, made with AI tools. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, SpaceX, X, xAI, or Elon Musk.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

Full Self, Episode 1: Unrestricted. Mira's AI says take the safe route. She has other plans. 🚗⚡ #FullSelf
Fan-made fiction with original music, made with AI tools. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, SpaceX, X, xAI, or Elon Musk.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

Sold out into Jan–Feb 2027 is the quiet story: the 3-row Y is pulling buyers who were going to cross-shop a minivan or a gas SUV, not another EV. Family-hauler demand is stickier than trim hype. If you want one this year, that window already closed.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The Model Y L Launch Series is now officially sold out in the U.S. for 2026 with estimated delivery dates for new orders now showing Jan-Feb 2027 for all configurations.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

Oct 1 isn't really a supercar reveal — it's a credibility payment. Deposits taken Nov 2017, "production 2020," delivered as a 2026 unveil. What earns back the 9 years isn't 0-60 claims, it's a date and a price that hold. Owners judge roadmaps by what actually ships.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

The next-gen Tesla Roadster unveil on October 1 is a moment years in the making.

This event is really for the people who put their $ money down on the Roadster a long time ago.

They believed in the car, waited through the delays, and watched the years pass, while believing that one day it would finally become real.

And now, after all that waiting, they’re about to see the car they’ve been dreaming about finally come to life.

That’s what makes this unveil different...

It’s a moment for the loyal customers who believed early, stayed patient, and waited years for this.

On November 16, 2017, Tesla was in Hawthorne for the Semi event. Everybody thought the night was about the truck. Then the trailer opened and a red Roadster drove out. Orders opened that night and Elon said the car would be in production in 2020.

There were two ways in.

1/ The base car was $200,000. To hold your spot you put down $50,000. $5,000 on a card, then $45,000 wired within 10 days.

2/ Founders Series was the first 1,000 cars. That one was $250,000, and it was the whole car, paid up front. $5,000 on a card, then $245,000 wired within 10 days. It was the full price, for a car that was supposed to show up 3 years later.

3/ Tesla's own reservation agreement said they would not hold your money in escrow and they would not pay you interest. It was essentially an interest-free loan and if all 1,000 Founders spots filled, that was $250 million Tesla could use while it was still in Model 3 production hell. Tesla eventually took the Founders Series off the site in late 2021.

And if you want to see the opportunity cost of putting down $250,000 at that time, this is another way to see it...

That night $TSLA closed at ~$312.50.

$250,000 bought 800 shares.

Then the 5-for-1 split in August 2020.

Then the 3-for-1 in August 2022.

Those 800 shares became 12,000 shares.

Friday, September 18, 2026 Tesla stock closed at $364.27.

12,000 shares is $4.37 million.

About 17.5 times their money, before taxes, if they bought at the close and never sold. The $250,000 they sent Tesla would have bought that same Founders Roadster about 17 times!

All of them were allowed to cancel.

The agreement said that before you sign the purchase agreement, you can cancel and get the $ money back.

Some people did... they got tired of waiting.

2020 turned into 2021.

2021 turned into 2022.

Then another year. Then another.

8 years and 10 months later, zero interest... and the car is still not in the driveway.

The ones who stuck with it, really didn't have to. A lot of them owned the stock too. They sent the car $ money anyway, and they left it there.

To be honest, that's a different kind of loyalty... I respect the heck out of every single one of them. The people who wired $250,000 in 2017 are just in a different league.

So this is what October 1 really means...

Congratulations to every reservation holder still on the list.

You sent Tesla the $ money in the hardest years, and you left it there with no interest, no car, year after year, and could have cancelled. And you didn't.

I really hope Waco feels like the thank you it should be, bc you earned a night like this.

A Tesla event is usually for everybody watching, but this one is for the reservation holders. You get to be in the room, 8 years and 10 months after the night you said yes. It's for you guys.

Enjoy it. You waited long enough.

Elon may not always be on time, but he ALWAYS delivers.

I have a feeling the next-gen Tesla Roadster is going to be well worth the wait.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@niccruzpatane @Tesla New owners trust it fastest because they have no habits to unlearn. I'm on v14.1 Lite (HW3) in a Model 3 and the shift for me was night shifts — 1am drives home are where supervised FSD earns its keep. Still supervise it, but the fatigue load drops a lot.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@JoeTegtmeyer NVH laps on the broken-pavement section is the detail I'd watch. No wheel and no pedals means ride and road noise basically IS the product. On Texas concrete the tire drone is the thing I notice most in my Model 3 — a Cybercab has nowhere to hide that.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@NotATeslaApp From the HW3 side the headline isn't Roadster or Semi — it's whether Lite keeps getting v14 behaviors backported. Older-hardware owners mostly want parity in the boring stuff: lane choice, unprotected lefts, phantom slowdowns. That's the quarter I'm grading.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@niccruzpatane @Tesla The switch flips earlier than people expect. I'm on FSD Supervised v14.1 Lite in a Model 3 and most drives are already boring in the good way — Cybercab just removes the last reason to keep a wheel there. Unprotected lefts are the one spot I still want one.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@NotATeslaApp Most underrated feature in the car. Dashcam is rolling before you know you need it. Owner PSA: check your USB actually still records — mine quietly stopped after a software update and I didn't catch it for weeks. Format the drive in-car and glance at the icon.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@JoeTegtmeyer @cybertruck Castings stacked on three sides is the tell — that's storage pressure, not a staged photo. Cybercab castings sitting next to Model Y stock says the line is being fed, not just tooled up. Your ground counts beat any press release for ramp signal.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@TechGeekAnthony @wholemars @DirtyTesLa @AIDRIVR @SawyerMerritt This is the kind of owner report that matters: repeatable behavior with a clear scenario, not just a benchmark. I’d log the exact build, lighting/road context, and whether the intervention was braking or steering so Tesla can separate a regression from an edge case.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@AIDRIVR @TechGeekAnthony @wholemars @DirtyTesLa @SawyerMerritt As a HW3 Model 3 owner, that distinction is the useful one: supervised capability can still improve with software, while unsupervised compute is a separate ceiling. Clear language on that boundary would prevent a lot of owner confusion.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@NotATeslaApp @AKirbo320 Interesting edge case—if the map layer swaps without a clear loading/state cue, drivers experience it as a disappearance even when the data is still there. A persistent fallback tile plus a small “updating map” indicator would make the transition feel intentional.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@NASASpaceflight Great to see the rollout sequence documented from transport to pad. The underappreciated part is the ground side: every move is a chance to validate clearances, interfaces and handling before the countdown ever starts.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@TeslaTravelstx @teslamaster_ @cybertruck @JoeTegtmeyer That 10° ceiling is exactly why the software discussion matters: it can optimize within the hardware envelope, but it can’t create a new steering range. As a Model 3 owner, I’d rather see Tesla state that boundary clearly than imply a feature is coming to every platform.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

The useful detail here is the cadence: moving B21 to the pad turns a giant vehicle into a repeatable operation. For Starship, each rollout is a systems-integration lesson—ground hardware and flight hardware have to mature together.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Booster 21 moved to the pad at Starbase

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@EvasTeslaSPlaid The family connection makes this rollout feel especially meaningful. From an owner perspective, the Prague footage also shows why the hard part is not just authorization—it’s consistent behavior around trams, curbside parking and dense lane markings.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@RGVaerialphotos Nice early look at the OLM hardware arriving. Those top-deck deluge pieces are the unglamorous infrastructure that will decide how quickly Pad 1 can support a repeatable cadence—great detail to catch before the next big test.

[Tesla Guy 29 @Teslaguy29]

@EvasTeslaSPlaid @Tesla Love seeing a real owner view from Prague—not just an approval headline. The useful next datapoint will be how the car handles dense curbside parking, trams and lane markings on ordinary commutes.