SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100GW/year of solar production capacity as fast as possible, but natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years.
The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is casting the blades & vanes. By doing in-house casting at SpaceX, we can accelerate nat gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months, which is a profound game-changer.
“Above all, do not lament my absence. For in my Spark, I know that this is not the end. But merely a new beginning. Simply put, another Transformation.” ~ Optimus Prime
Thank you Peter Cullen. RIP
Starship has now been loaded onto a semi-submersible ship to begin the several month journey back to Starbase. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX Recovery team for battling through challenging conditions to give our engineers access to a wealth of data to continue rapidly developing Starship
“I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.”
- Peter Cullen (1941 - 2026)
SpaceX engineers spent several days inspecting Ship 40 in the waters off Christmas Island. They collected heatshield samples and gained vital insight into how the vehicle handled reentry with improvements now planned on future vehicles
Anyone betting against SpaceX building a massive spaceport in southern Louisiana has not been paying attention to what has happened in Starbase over the last decade. And SpaceX now has exponentially more funding and far fewer restrictions at the proposed site.
This is cool, you can now give Grok a ton of commands at once in your Tesla and it’ll do them all together.
The commands I gave:
• Fold mirrors
• Turn on wipers to fastest setting
• Change temp to 65°
• Open self-driving app
• Open glovebox
Comes with Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update.
Grok Bot is now available to everyone with a standard Grok or Cursor subscription. It's grown faster than any product we've seen.
It's been particularly exciting to see the range of jobs people delegate to Grok Bot, from running small e-commerce businesses (including support, advertising, inventory, finance), coordinating customer events (directly pinging and working with dozens of human coworkers), testing production software, and completing large, mundane parts of users' day-to-day work.
Robotaxi now runs 6am to 10pm, 7 days/week
Unsupervised fleet is a lot bigger
Also, upgraded intelligence in vehicle distribution & routing means you wait less
Aww yea! Chatting with Chris Bray here, and would you look at this. SpaceX's Ship 40 is about to be loaded on board FORTE. Wow, it looks so small! 🤯
Make sure you follow Chris here because it has been a fun day so far. More to come. 🫶
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