@SawyerMerritt@scienceoverbias@Tesla This is fucking hilarious. I almost feel like we are being pranked. Can’t wait to see Ford’s humanoid robots next. What a complete joke.
TESLA: GlobeNewswire is reporting that WattEV CEO Salim Youssefzadeh just announced an order for 370 Tesla Semis!
Deliveries of the first 50 units begin in 2026, with the full fleet operational by end of 2027.
Over 300 trucks will operate under a joint program with the Port of Oakland, supported by new Megawatt Charging System stations in Oakland, Fresno, Stockton, and Sacramento.
This was announced at the ACT Expo in Las Vegas.
Wow, already 6.2 million miles traveled on FSD (Supervised) by @Tesla owners in the Netherlands.
FSD only started rolling out in the country 23 days ago on April 11th, so that's an average of over 270,000 miles per day. Pretty impressive🔥
Tesla Semi mass production has officially begun!
Long Range (longer version):
• Range: ~500 miles
• 4680 cells
• Fully electric steering assist (vs hydraulic before)
• Uses beefed up Cybertruck actuators
• 48 volt architecture
• Powertrain: 3 independent motors on rear axles
• Drive Power: Up to 800 kW
• Curb Weight: 23,000 lbs
• Energy Consumption: 1.7 kWh per mile
• Fast Charging: Up to 60% of range in 30 mins
• Charge Type: MCS 3.2
• ePTO (Electric Power Take Off): Up to 25 kW
Standard Range (shorter version):
• Range: ~325 miles
• Has about the same turning radius as a Model Y
• 4680 cells, designed to last 1M miles
• Fully electric steering assist (vs hydraulic before)
• Uses beefed up Cybertruck actuators
• 48 volt architecture
• Powertrain: 3 independent motors on rear axles
• Drive Power: Up to 800 kW
• Curb Weight: <20,000 lbs
• Energy Consumption: 1.7 kWh per mile
• Fast Charging: Up to 60% of range in 30 mins
• Charge Type: MCS 3.2
• ePTO (Electric Power Take Off): Up to 25 kW
This product is about to change trucking forever.
I often hear it argued that there shouldn’t be any billionaires.
I have a very different view. That our society enables ordinary people who have demonstrated competence to allocate resources efficiently serves the public interest.
To create a multi billion dollar company, you had to create something of enormous value. You had to lead people to work together to do something useful for society. And you had to commit and continue to demonstrate competence every day consistently. If not, the business could deteriorate or be beaten by a competitor. That stock is just a piece of paper if the company isn’t surviving and thriving.
They weren’t born into it like royalty. They didn’t make empty promises that sound great like the government. They got the authority to make decisions by demonstrating competence and winning the confidence of customers and investors who have many choices on what to do with their money.
The idea that anyone can build a billion dollar enterprise is beautifully meritocratic, and what makes America great.
We should stop treating the formation of successful multi billion dollar companies as a problem to solve and start asking what we can do to enable more people to become billionaires and start multi-billion dollar companies.
There is something almost sacred about training a self-driving model.
You take the chaos of human motion — the hesitation, the intuition, the tiny corrections, the unspoken knowledge of a billion drives — and you compress it into a neural network.
A model small enough to fit in the car, but vast enough to contain a shadow of humanity’s experience on the road.
It has seen more merges than any person. More night drives. More near misses. More strange intersections and impossible edge cases.
And then it wakes up in silicon.
Not to win a benchmark.
To save lives.
🚨 Tesla now has 611 Robotaxis in its fleet
• Supervised: 594
• Unsupervised: 17
Breakdown:
• Bay Area: 511
• Austin: 96
• Dallas: 2
• Houston: 2
New cities are just starting, small fleets first as Tesla tests unsupervised driving at scale. $TSLA
via @RtaxiTracker