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by spikels 3y ago
Just go to the south end of South Padre Island and watch from shoreline. You will be about 5 miles from the launch pad. Binoculars are nice to have. This video gives you an idea of what it was like watching from there on the first flight:
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by spikels 3y ago
A more recent article in the WSJ mentioned Tesla’s charging sites were both cheaper and offered more chargers: > Five states—Ohio, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Maine and Colorado—have selected winners at this point, and full details on sites an
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by spikels 3y ago
83% of Norway’s Q3 car sales are battery electric vehicles
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by spikels 3y ago
MSM has been pushing narrative that EVs are struggling in the US and elsewhere but the actual top line numbers show continued growth. This will be the 3rd year in a row that BEV (battery electric vehicle) sales grow over 50% in both CA and
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by spikels 3y ago
TEXT SpaceX Eyes $15 Billion in Sales Next Year on Starlink Strength By Edward Ludlow and Gillian Tan November 6, 2023 at 10:39 PM GMT+1 SpaceX is on track to book revenues of about $9 billion this year across its rocket launch and Starlink
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SpaceX Eyes $15B in 2024 Sales on Starlink Strength ($9B revenue in 2023)(bloomberg.com)
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Grok has real-time access to info via the 𝕏 platform(twitter.com)
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by spikels 3y ago
Calm down. Prob just a typo. s/conventional/unconventional/
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by spikels 3y ago
Some background from Gwen Shotwell back in February[1]: > While Musk said in October that Starlink was losing money, Shotwell offered a more upbeat assessment. “This year Starlink will make money,” she said, noting that the company’s Fal
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by spikels 3y ago
In 2023 the #1 selling vehicle worldwide will be the Tesla Model Y, an EV. Toyota is one of the greatest manufacturing companies in human history but they do seem to have lost their way in recent years due to stubborn management. I think th
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by spikels 3y ago
Is this a joke? SpaceX has the most reliable launch service in human history.
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Seven US Companies Collaborate with NASA to Advance Space Capabilities(nasa.gov)
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SpaceX Space Station(chrisprophet.substack.com)
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by spikels 3y ago
Idra, the supplier of Tesla’s casting machines, is also building similar casting machines for Ford, Hyundai and an unnamed premium European carmaker. Here’s a picture of the Ford casting machine under construction/testing at Idra: htt
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by spikels 3y ago
Better conspiracy theory: auto magazines/websites make most of their revenue from advertising and while car makers spend around $10B/year on advertising Tesla spends nothing.
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by spikels 3y ago
Kinda hilarious it's right above a link to their "Journalistic Standards". And that "T" refers to the Trust Project which is funded by the the same consortium of billionaires concerned with gatekeeping information.
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by spikels 3y ago
For 1st half of this year their EV market share was still pretty small in the US: VW/Audi/Porsche: 5.4% BMW/Mini: 3.4% Toyota/Lexus/Subaru: 1.4% Chrysler/Fiat/Jeep/Ram: 0.0% But they all have big EV p
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by spikels 3y ago
Genesis also committed to NACS today. Just need the VW Group (VW, Audi, Porsche), BMW, Toyota and Stellantis (Chrysler, Jeep, Fiat) to adopt NACS and we will have the entire US market (99.9%+) on a single standard. Progress!
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by spikels 3y ago
Yeah. It’s a very limited product for pre-mapped freeways during traffic jams, so there is always someone in front of you anyway. Traffic jams are very unpleasant and relatively easy to automate so it seem like a good place to start. Howeve
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by spikels 3y ago
“$2,500 annual subscription” seems pricey for such a limited product but it’s an expensive car for wealth buyers. Still good to see car companies push out improvements like this. Next version should be more capable, then the next version… E
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by spikels 3y ago
…also can’t be a construction zone. Since all the premapped routes are highways with speeds well above 40 mph and given that a “follow car” must be directly ahead of it, this is just for highway traffic jams under ideal conditions. Useful b
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by spikels 3y ago
Now over 2 million active customers https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1705695980325323023
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SpaceX’s Starlink surpasses 2M active customers(twitter.com)
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by spikels 3y ago
There are “more than 100,000” Starlink terminals in Ukraine according to the new Musk bio.
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by spikels 3y ago
X/Twitter does warn you when you try to edit you profile with this message. It’s just more terrible reporting. > Your blue checkmark will be hidden for a period of time after you edit your display name or profile photo until it is r
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by spikels 3y ago
What’s the current inflation rate?
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by spikels 3y ago
Omar post raw versions of all his FSD videos. There’s a link in the YouTube description. Here’s the one for this drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFYspCLoLTY Frankly the sped up versions are more useful for understand
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by spikels 3y ago
Yet here we are…
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by spikels 3y ago
Musk bad
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by spikels 3y ago
GM is ending production of the Bolt later this year. They lost money on every one they sold. GM CEO recently said they won’t be able to make sub-40k EVs until the end of this decade “maybe longer”. GM is really struggling with the transitio

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