tesla.com/referral/joe66892 CFI pilot. Drone videos about Giga Texas & Starbase. Interested in all things space related! Mayor of Cyber Beach!

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The Tesla Semi is the tractor. The new ZET SCALE agreement is the permission slip. Autonomy takes the highway. Humanoids come for the dock. ZET SCALE lets mid-size carriers run electric Class 8s. Tesla builds the stack that could take the rest of the mile.
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The Semi Is the Tractor, but Tesla Wants the Whole Mile (Electric 1st, Autonomy, and then Humanoid)

Tesla just posted the following post touting an agreement in the US using 2,500 Tesla Semis with a new shippers' alliance with ZET SCALE. Big news for sure! It all sounds great, but it may not be

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Elon just said Gen3 Starlink is 250kW & carries a Vera Rubin NVL72. But, that does not mean Starlink V3 & Starmind are the same satellite. One bus. Two payloads. Two orbits. One Starship dispenser & the real trick is how SpaceX solved the payload problem!
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Elon Put a Supercomputer on Starlink. That Does Not Mean Starlink Is Starmind.

Elon’s recent comment on X about Starlink V3 has a lot of people convinced SpaceX is merging Starlink and Starmind onto one satellite. Some of that is understandable. The two designs share a bus,

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The pieces are on the board. Now Tesla has to play! Cybercab is real. Austin is live. That was the hard engineering. The hard business is next: 5-minute waits, cars that stay busy & a great safety record. What Tesla has to prove by this time next year.
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Tesla must now show it can go from "Beautiful Cybercab" to a Real Robotaxi Network

Tesla has spent years assembling the parts of a transformative robotaxi system almost nobody else can claim in one company: a purpose-built two-seater with no wheel and no pedals and a competent

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Robotaxi is not Uber-with-no-driver versus a $50k car payment. It is a slider. Hail on Monday. Lock a session for groceries on Wednesday. Own-and-earn on Friday. Hail again when you are in another city. Build the slider. Stop asking people to pick a pole.
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You are thinking about Robotaxi the wrong way ... It should be a lifestyle Continuum of Choice

We are thinking about Robotaxi the wrong way Robotaxi as a service is far more transformative than we currently think, and that is because the current model we are accustomed to basically boils down

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Tesla's "Exclusive" Cybercab Launch Event is just 4 days away & it is a major milestone & launch for the company, perhaps as important as the original 2012 Model S or the 2017 Model 3. What do I hope Tesla will tell us & what should the event be like?
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Attending Tesla’s Cybercab Launch Event: The 12 Questions That Actually Matter

I thought, with the upcoming Cybercab Launch Event, it might be good to consider a prioritized list of questions, or interest areas, that would be essential for the company to cover during the

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Chip factories can’t wiggle. A truck, wet Texas clay, even a pump can ruin chips & that’s why they’re built like giant shock absorbers. @Tesla & @SpaceX are pouring that foundation at Giga Texas right now. Here's why & what to look for!
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Picometers & Piers: Why Chip Fabs Are Built Like Nothing Else & What Giga Texas Is Pouring Right Now

There is something very special being built at Giga Texas, and this facility is unlike any constructed here with a level of precision & vibration elimination far beyond the needs of ordinary

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How did the 2020 decision by Tesla to build Giga Texas spark a Once-in-a-Generation Manufacturing Boom inspiring innovation and massive investment in the region, from huge corporations to scrappy startups ... the future is being built in Texas .... now!
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Tesla’s 2020 Giga Texas Decision Was the Spark That is Recharging America’s Industrial Heartland

How Giga Texas Sparked a Once-in-a-Generation Multi-Company Manufacturing Boom In the summer of 2020, Tesla selected a site just east of Austin for Gigafactory Texas. As many of you know, I was

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SpaceX & Tesla are building in Texas ... in an unprecedented way that few truly understand much less are aware of. The state of Texas is about to benefit in a major way. In this article, we look at the current and planned efforts that are reshaping Texas.
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Texas is the $31B+ Beneficiary of the Growing SpaceX and Tesla Presence in the State

Tesla and SpaceX are building a second to none, vertically integrated industrial ecosystem across Texas centered on vehicles/robots, AI compute, satellites, rockets, and advanced chips. The

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Having Payloads to match launch systems has been a significant friction point for all space launch companies and has slowed progress, but SpaceX turned this constraint on its head and revolutionized launch economics. Here's how they did it!
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SpaceX has inverted the classic launch-industry constraint ... where do the payloads come from?

For decades, the limiting factor on building massive reusable launch systems was simple and valid: Where would the payload demand come from? This is something I've thought about for a long time and

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With all eyes on the @SpaceX Financial Results meeting tomorrow and the continued development of the Starship Booster and Ship, one critical capability remains to be proven ... Orbital Refilling. It's essential & will allow Starship to change everything!
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The Real Starship Revolution Isn’t the Ship or Booster Catches ... It’s the Gas Station in the Sky!

Starship Flight 13 delivered a substantially clean performance: full-duration flight, successful Starlink V3 deployment, de-orbit burn demonstration, smooth reentry flight and maneuvering and a soft

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@NASAAdmin Isaacman is trying to revitalize the agency and exploring new approaches like repurposing existing equipment as a key part in this effort ... but will NASA be able to overcome institutional risk aversion and legacy thinking? Let's discuss!
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Can NASA's PROMISE mission Overcome Institutional Risk Aversion and Legacy Thinking?

NASA stands at an inflection point. After years of institutional ossification and withering away, marked by chronic delays, ballooning costs, and a culture that often prioritized process over

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