Cont: Musk, SpaceX and future of Tesla II

[Darat]

And stupid.

 

[jimbob]

Is he really so dumb that he doesn't know who the bad guys are in Star Wars?

I saw some people talking about this.

Some of the far right were massively happy about the "memetic warfare" recasting the Empire as the goodies or something. In order to make Star Wars fans like Nazis or something equally lame.

Apparently it was a massive success and was sure to deliver the yoof vote in the midterms. So I think we can agree it was an untrammeled success.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Courting yoof-ful edgelords?
Is that really a wise strategy?

 

[jimbob]

Courting yoof-ful edgelords?
Is that really a wise strategy?

Nope

 

[Dabop]

Tesla has now shrunk its product line from five to two, axing the S and X and soon the CyberTruck. The remaining two - the 3 and Y - are excellent vehicles. But in spite of incremental improvements, now quite dated designs.

That leaves satisfied customers like myself with little motivation to buy a newer Tesla. I’m not promoting planned obsolescence, but it would take something new and innovative from Tesla to get me to consider replacing my ‘22 M3. And I suspect I’m not alone on this.

M3 sales in Australia have been dismal, in June they sold just 598 Model 3's, and 8072 Model Ys (8670 in total for the month) while BYD sold 18881 EVs for the same month lol, with Tesla looking at dropping the M3 from its Australia lineup entirely- leaving them with the Model Y being their only EV still being sold...

 

[Andy_Ross]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

~100 lasers per satellite, each operating above 10 Tb/s, with over 100k satellites should be able to outcompete undersea cables.

Speed of light in space is ~40% faster than cable and the path is direct, instead of following the outline of land masses.

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Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerritt
Elon just teased SpaceX's next-gen V4 @Starlink satellites:
"Starlink version 4 will have 10x the capability of V3 (which itself is 10x better than V2), especially with the long-distance laser links. Our next-gen laser links will be 10-terabits per second. 100x better. And we'll put 10 of them on."

Link

 

[dudalb]

I keep on saying, that Tesla is not near synomoous with Electric Car ; that Tesla now has real competition; and Musk is not adjusting well to actually having to compete.
And there is his blowing half a Billion dollars in his failed attempt to be the kingmaker in Texas politics. In fact, appreantly the Dems used Musk as a campaign weapon agians the GOP.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

The flaw was not stupid meme posting, it was letting Trump do it.
Social media allows for targeting on the local level according to local tastes - but Republican operatives were probably worried that their memes might get more likes than whatever Trump presents to the bots.
Republicans completely lost the digital advantage they used to have.

 

[a_unique_person]

He's going to stop producing Cybertruck to increase production of the Robocab. That's a product that doesn't even work yet for which there is no demand. It's also as bad a design as the Cybertruck was.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Cybertrucks didn't last as long as the Edsel, Gremlin, or Pinto.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
WOW! Elon Musk FIRES BACK at every Senate and House Democrat planning to target him, saying he will GLADLY cancel any government contract — he doesn't NEED them anyway

"SpaceX contracts with the government are BOTH the best product AND the lowest price! Moreover government revenue will be less than 10% of SpaceX revenue this quarter and less then 5% a year from now. Happy to cancel any that the government doesn’t want. Just say the word!"

Honestly, pushing away Elon Musk is a HORRIBLE move from Dems! His products are incredible and benefit America

Link

 

[Andy_Ross]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

SpaceX revenue this quarter alone will be substantially higher than NASA’s entire annual budget!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

The Tesla Cybertruck order backlog is currently far more than we can make before dismantling the line for Cybercab expansion around June/July next year.

We will add an extra shift to try to get all orders done in time.

Link

 

[dudalb]

He's going to stop producing Cybertruck to increase production of the Robocab. That's a product that doesn't even work yet for which there is no demand. It's also as bad a design as the Cybertruck was.

The Cybertruck has been nicknames "The 21st Version Century of the Edsel"..

 

[arthwollipot]

The Cybertruck has been nicknames "The 21st Version Century of the Edsel"..

I think you words rearranged some there.

 

[jimbob]

I think it's got something to do with this.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2117654897088971040

Star Wars is actually "gay".

Video on this subject saying that it's conflating two dog whistles

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Why Musk thought he could escape the inevitable consequences of associating with Trump is beyond me. Anyone who associates with Trump ends up covered in Trump's ◊◊◊◊.

My guess is that he thought his ◊◊◊◊ was so much worse that being covered in TACO's would be an improvement.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

SpaceX revenue this quarter alone will be substantially higher than NASA’s entire annual budget!

Only if you massively fake the numbers. SpaceX has two customers NASA and Starlink. And neither have a need to push SpaceX's revenue anywhere near high enough.

 

[Darat]

No it will be AI and humanoid robots! Everyone will have a robot - well those that can afford them which is the same as everyone in Musk's world.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Only if you massively fake the numbers. SpaceX has two customers NASA and Starlink. And neither have a need to push SpaceX's revenue anywhere near high enough.

I had to check because it sounded wrong but it appears to be true.

Between stagnant budgets and Trump looking to slash a quarter for 2027 (down to ~18b from ~24b now) and the proposal that SpaceX will grow revenue from ~16b last quarter to ~22-ish this current Q on (mostly) Starlink growth... it checks out.

But I don't have to like it.