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[GreenTechFusion.solar @greentechfusion]

Get 3 Mo. of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) or $400 Off Solar or schedule a Full Self Driving demo at nearest Tesla showroom near you.

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We’re sending a ship out to recover Starship

[Rhin0 @SpaceRhin0]

An early morning delivery!

Raptor 3 194 heading past at McGregor, seemingly ready for some more testing!

📷: @NASASpaceflight https://t.co/4WWVfuqIpQ

[Elysia Segal @elysiasegal]

🚨 New ep! What a week in spaceflight: #Starship Flight 13 finally flew, India's first private orbital rocket reached space, Blue Origin continues to rebuild LC-36 after May's explosion, and RFA ONE rolls to the pad ahead of its maiden flight. 🚀

Catch up on @nasaspaceflight 👇

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Unreal footage

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The Starship Recovery team has continued gathering imagery of the vehicle, which is still afloat in the Indian Ocean

[pv magazine @pvmagazine]

As solar breaks records, its security must catch up: In May 2026, U.S. solar power hit a historic milestone by generating more electricity than coal for the first time, but rapid industry expansion brings… https://t.co/ARVuGpSgmY #Photovoltaics #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy

[Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎 @JoeTegtmeyer]

Giga Texas & @Cybertruck news

@Tesla vs. Angstrom: The Cybertruck Tooling Standoff Threatening Production

Tesla has filed an emergency federal lawsuit against Michigan-based supplier Angstrom Automotive Group LLC, accusing it of holding critical Cybertruck manufacturing tooling and parts “for ransom.”

Here’s the full background and current status.

Angstrom, a Tier-1 automotive supplier founded in 1999 and led by CEO Nagesh Palakurthi, expanded aggressively in 2025. In September 2025 it acquired Anderton Castings, an aluminum die-casting company with a key facility in Troy, Texas (near Waco).

Anderton was already supplying Tesla with specialized Cybertruck (and some Model Y) components. Tesla had paid for both the parts and the custom multi-ton tooling used to produce them — die-cast tools, trim dies, fixtures, gauges, X-ray equipment, and more.

After the acquisition, the supply relationship continued under Angstrom ownership of the Troy plant.

The July 2026 Breakdown

• July 13: Angstrom notified Tesla it planned to shut down the Troy facility and refused to cooperate on a retrieval plan for Tesla’s tooling.

• Mid-July: Angstrom allegedly demanded extra compensation for tooling modifications and offered to keep the plant running only if Tesla paid an additional $250,000 per week (on top of existing purchase orders). Tesla characterizes this as holding its own property for ransom.

• July 17: Roughly 700 finished Tesla components that were scheduled to ship never left the facility.

• July 21: Tesla teams (accompanied by law enforcement) arrived to retrieve the equipment and were denied access.

• July 23: Tesla filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Tesla, Inc. v. Angstrom Automotive Group, LLC, Case No. 6:26-cv-00477), seeking an emergency court order solely for access to reclaim its tooling and the held parts.

What’s at Stake

Tesla says:

• No other supplier can currently make these specific components.
• Its on-hand inventory will run out in “mere days.”
• Without the tooling, production of several thousand Cybertrucks already committed to customers is at risk.
• Replacing the complex, multi-ton equipment would take 5–6 months.

Tesla is not seeking broader damages or contract litigation in this filing, only immediate recovery of its property so Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas can continue uninterrupted.

Angstrom has not issued a public statement. Court dockets show the company is actively responding to the emergency motions.

The Bigger Picture

This isn’t the first time Angstrom has had legal dispute issues recently. In 2024, Angstrom was accused & found liable for the Eaton Corporation Breach of Contract Verdict a& Bankruptcy where it was hit with a $30 million jury verdict in June 2024 won by power electronics giant Eaton Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Angstrom was found liable for breach of contract, breach of express warranty, & breach of implied warranty of merchantability over defective transmission levers causing field clutch failures. 

This resulted in Angstrom subsidiary Wrena, LLC filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2024 citing liabilities between $10 million & $50 million tied to the verdict which was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in February 2026. 

Concerning the Cybertruck parts & tooling situation unfolding now, this appears to be is a classic (& high-stakes) automotive supply-chain dispute over customer-owned tooling when a relationship or facility ends.

With Cybertruck production trying to ramp up to meet high demand, particularly with orders for the $59K AWD version offered for a 10-day period in late February, any multi-day or multi-week interruption could have real downstream effects on deliveries.

The case is still in its earliest stages. More details will emerge as the court rules on Tesla’s request for emergency access.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink routers have cleared a US national-security review and received conditional approval from the Department of War and the FCC.

Big win for @Starlink and @SpaceX. 🇺🇸

[pv magazine @pvmagazine]

Mexican graduates develop agrivoltaic system with rainwater harvesting, smart irrigation: The group's agrivoltaic proposal, known as SolarRoot, integrates photovoltaics with crops, rainwater harvesting and… https://t.co/Fobf5c1fmr #Photovoltaics #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

This is a fantastic article about @Tesla's FSD by The Detroit News:

"Determined to maintain their individual transportation independence, they are using Tesla’s hands-free FSD system as a driver assist. Though by no means exclusive to seniors in its ability to add another set of eyes to the road, FSD helps elderly drivers maintain a cocoon around their car as their confidence in reflexes and eyesight naturally deteriorate.

92-year-old Leonard Kraus uses Tesla FSD (Supervised) for 87% of his miles. He recommended Tesla FSD to his 95-year-old brother-in-law. “I don't think I would be driving without it.”

“It's as good a driver as I am,” said Dick Amacher, 78, a retired General Motors engineer from Rochester Hills who drives his Model Y and Model 3 on FSD 98% of the time. “Here's the thing, it will not go through a red light. It will not go through a stop sign. Every once in a while, I've driven through neighborhoods where stop signs were partially obscured by low hanging branches, for example. . . and (the Tesla) sees them before I do.”

Driving into Detroit, FSD exited the expressway near Wayne State. “All of a sudden the Tesla pulls over to the curb. I'm like: ‘what is going on?’” said the 78-year old. “Turns out there was an emergency vehicle coming from behind. FSD saw that it was an emergency vehicle before I did. It has vision in every direction simultaneously. A human being cannot replicate that.”

Full article: https://t.co/bn099dJ8li

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla has struck a long-term deal to buy electricity from a big solar and battery project in Arizona, developer ContourGlobal said.

The firm will sell 90% of the output from Project Sterling to Tesla. The facility is scheduled to begin operating in 2028 and will include 509MW of peak solar generation and 360MW of four-hour battery storage.

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

Energy affordability and meeting rising demand is not a red or blue issue.

...so it's not surprising that adding solar isn't partisan either.

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[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on orbital data centers:

"If @elonmusk and SpaceX are betting on this right now, there is no reason to believe this will not come to existence. Never bet against an extremely well capitalized Elon."

On NASA's mission to head back to the Moon, he said: "We can't do it without them. So the fact that they're extremely well capitalized right now is a fantastic thing, not to mention the engineering talent that's in there. Without question the greatest entrepreneur and engineer in recent history."

via Moonshots pod: https://t.co/pU8zFGWY3Y

[Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎 @JoeTegtmeyer]

Employee autonomous Cybercab pickups and drop offs continue around Giga Texas today, and here is just one of many such examples.

Watch how the Cybercab decides to do a u-turn on a busy street and then drives off tot he south along the factory and by the flag poles. Very smooth and good to see this new program is working out well.

A few other images of Cybercabs around the factory today.

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

🚨FOUR HOURS LATER AND TEXAS HAS BROKEN ITS SOLAR RECORD AGAIN!

34.7 GIGAWATTS

[No Safe Words @Cyber_Trailer]

Sarah joined Club Tesla and doesn’t give two shits what you think about her new Cybertruck.

She’s not going back in time.
She’s locked in.

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

Two weeks ago, SEIA recapped the major records that solar and storage set in 2026: https://t.co/0D3vAwgUqv

Last week, 3 of them were broken once again.

Solar and storage are breaking records faster than we can keep up... and that's been critical to keeping the lights on.