Henrik Kim

Tech, IT, Tesla and Space exploration. Loving music and history - Politics as an interest but at a distance.

[NL F$D Inside @TSLA_inside_]

Hi Tesla, all of Europe is waiting for the Grok integration in Tesla vehicles. I want to know why we still don’t have it.

I live in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and my phone already has Grok.

Please respond. We want clarity about this or at least a timeframe for when it could arrive.
#grok
@elonmusk
@teslaeurope
@Tesla_AI
@Tesla
$TSLA

[Henrik Kim @henrikkim]

@DrEricDing Nonsense!

[Tesla @Tesla]

Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company.

This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published).

The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead.

 – Robyn Denholm

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Henrik Kim @henrikkim]

@PolarisProgram @SpaceX @Starlink @Gillis_SarahE @StJude @ElSistemaUSA @rookisaacman @KiddPoteet @annawmenon I come to think of the Kennedy quote: “For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
Could our leaders come more together like this music.

[Polaris @PolarisProgram]

HARMONY OF RESILIENCE: Recorded in space and sent to Earth via @SpaceX’s @Starlink constellation, Polaris Dawn crewmember and violinist @Gillis_SarahE invites you to enjoy this music moment in support of @StJude & @ElSistemaUSA → https://t.co/My8cUwAWzg

[Henrik Kim @henrikkim]

@jmvrijn @events_msft Also had problems with my MasterCard. It worked with a VISA card.

[Henrik Kim @henrikkim]

@events_msft Excited to return to Chicago for #MSIgnite. Ticket secured 🍾😉

[Henrik Kim @henrikkim]

One of the best views on launch and landing of the Falcon 9! #spacex

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9’s first launch of a Cygnus spacecraft to the @space_station https://t.co/nsapqVa49X

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 completes two launches within four hours from Florida and California, delivering 45 @Starlink satellites to orbit

[Brian Basson @BassonBrain]

‼️ News: @Tesla's Model 3 (upgrade) wins Winter range test conducted by Finnish newspaper ... in -20°C (-4°F) weather!

The test involved 10 electric vehicles, such as the upgraded Tesla Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor, Volkswagen ID.7 Pro Elegance, BWM i5 eDrive 40 M Sport, BYD Dolphin Comfort, Hyundai Kona Electric 65 kWh Premium, and the MG4 Luxury, among others.

While recent news reports may suggest that Teslas are useless in the cold, the results of a winter range test in Europe reveal that the opposite is true.

As per a test conducted by the Finnish newspaper Tekniikan Maailma (TM), Tesla’s electric vehicles are among the best-performing electric cars in frigid weather.

The upgraded Tesla Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor AWD continued to be drivable despite its battery showing 0%. The vehicle drove over 300 km despite the frigid weather. And while its overall range during the test represented a notable decrease from its estimated WLTP range of 629 km, it was a standout among its peers nonetheless.

Ultimately, the upgraded Tesla Model 3 topped the Finnish newspaper’s winter driving test for its overall performance.

#TeslaNews

via Teslarati

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy @wholemars Correct.

Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Shame on the mainstream media for purposely misleading people into thinking that Optimus (Tesla Bot) attacked a worker just to get clicks.

Here is the real context:
• This unfortunate injury happened two years ago before Tesla even had a real working Optimus prototype
• A simple industrial Kuka robot arm was the cause of the injury. This robot arm is found in all car factories.

Every single image in the article was of Tesla's Optimus robot. Even worse, Fox News hyperlinked the words 'pinned the engineer' directly to another article showcasing the unveiling of Tesla's Gen-2 Optimus robot. What the hell does that unveiling have anything to do with this story?

The level to which the mainstream media is negatively distorting people's view of Tesla is sad considering all the good the company has done and continues to do.

[Alex @alex_avoigt]

Daihatsu/ Toyota Crash Test Scandal

Daihatsu has allegedly been systematically manipulating crash test results since 1989. Models from the parent company Toyota are also affected.

Daihatsu had already admitted in the spring that it had manipulated the results of crash tests for some models. A week ago, the 🇯🇵 Japanese small car manufacturer, therefore, stopped all deliveries of its cars worldwide.

As Elon has already correctly stated several times, the current crash test results are completely unsuitable for giving consumers information about which models are safer than others, as they mostly all result in 5 stars.

The current Daihatsu fraud scandal is more than just fraud as it has probably not only jeopardized the lives of many buyers but has literally taken them by encouraging them to make the wrong purchase decision that had fatal consequences in an accident.

Now the entire Dahatsu vehicle production and deliveries has been stopped.

After the diesel scandal, this is yet another example of car manufacturers putting profit before consumer safety. Such unacceptable behavior is inexcusable and should be severely punished to set an example so that no one dares to try something like this again.
https://t.co/85uCFn22y8

[Tesla @Tesla]

Reuters published an article that leads with a wildly misleading headline and is riddled with incomplete and demonstrably incorrect information.

This latest piece vaguely and nonsensically suggests there are thousands upon thousands of disgruntled Tesla customers. It’s nonsensical because it’s nonfactual—the reality is Tesla’s customer retention is among the best and highest in the industry.

Misleading headline:
“Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective.”

Reality (buried in the article): 
Tesla paid for most of the 120,000 vehicle repairs under warranty.

Manufactured story: 
The customer photo represents not a failed component, but instead a post crash component that was damaged in the course of reducing the adverse effects of a collision. The customer was informed that Tesla was able to review the telemetry and understood there was a crash that resulted in this repair not being covered by warranty. 
Most, if not all, manufacturer warranties exclude damages caused by a crash because that is the point of insurance coverage.

Helpful context:
Tesla has the most advanced vehicle telemetry system that can identify emerging issues, determine scope, and allow for faster vehicle and service improvements than has ever been seen in the auto industry. We take action as soon as we see a problem, something that should be celebrated as best-in-class, and is often cited by our regulators as a major safety advantage.

False accusation:
The author has conflated a noise-related (non-safety) issue with a range of unrelated and disconnected service actions. Contrary to the article’s statements based on erroneous data, Tesla is truthful and transparent with our safety regulators around the globe and any insinuation otherwise is plain wrong.

Tesla Service Principles:
a.
Our service technicians and advisors diagnose, maintain and fix our customers’ cars efficiently and are not incentivized to profit off customers’ repair needs.

b.
Tesla provides our service employees with excellent compensation and benefits packages. They don’t work off of commission like at other dealers who are incentivized to upsell or overcharge their customers.

c.
The best service is no service. When service must be done, we fix 90%+ problems without even needing the customer present – either through over-the-air updates or with mobile service at a customer’s house or workplace.
To see Tesla’s approach in action, one can refer to this maintenance study from earlier this year, “Tesla was named the cheapest luxury car brand to maintain..” → https://t.co/yXh0y2nJdE

This cherry-picking approach to journalism results in missing the truth, which is a pattern in many of the negative articles about Tesla. 

Using one customer’s one-sided version of events as the universal experience of all customers paints a false and misleading picture of Tesla. In reality, for every upset customer, there are hundreds more who are thrilled with their Tesla and eager to repeat their business. The numbers don’t lie in terms of repeat sales and customer satisfaction.

We strive to make every customer a lifelong member of the Tesla family. 

While others may have their own agendas, our principles have been the same since the beginning: to make the safest cars in the world, which are easiest to maintain, while accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

[Henrik Kim @henrikkim]

@Teslaconomics We have an X, so it would replace our e-Golf. Hence I would go for the (new) 3 😉

[Eduardo @iam_edh]

Our @Toyota #Rav4 has a recall for potential fire related to the battery!
Tell me why this is not front page? Why is this not on the news? 💀🥴🤦🏻‍♂️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

From an amazing Michael Crichton talk:

“Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once
discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article
on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the
article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page,
and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything
they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against
evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper.”

[Jim Farley @jimfarley98]

@elonmusk Great to read the document and realize that our next-gen team has been on a similar path. Let’s work together to help the supply base move into the 48V future as well.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

At dawn from the gateway to Mars, the launch of Starship’s second flight test

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners.