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5th of February, 2024

■ TESLA $TSLA ($181.06, -3.65%):

Cybertruck and Model 3 at Nanjing Xinjiekou Deji Plaza

- Cybertruck is coming to Germany! It will be on display at the Tesla Center in Holzgerlingen, this spring. Holzgerlingen is largest delivery center in Europe. The exact date is not confirmed.

- New images of the rotating Kiln and Cooler at the Tesla Lithium Refinery project in Corpus Christi were posted by John Cargile (u/GroundTruthPics) of WAI (u/FelixSchlang). The project is still moving slowly compared to other Tesla projects, but new steel and concrete structures are present.

- Japan is starting to see Tesla ads on X. Elon stated that Tesla needed to increase brand awareness of in the country and Japan is the 2nd largest market on X.

- According to u/DriveTeslaCa, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire announced they plan to replace half their Department of Safety and Security (DoSS) fleet with Model Ys.

- Cathie Wood of ARKK Invest posted a lengthy thread (as if I got room to talk) about the voided Elon compensation package. “I believe the Delaware court decision, forcing Tesla to void the March 2018 vote on Elon Musk’s performance-based pay package, is un-American, an assault on investor rights, and an insult to the Board of Directors of one of the most stunningly successful companies in US history.” It is worth the thread.

- Tesla Korea has announced the Tesla Style Lab; a tinting installation program performed by a Tesla certified TSL styler. TSL Styler is an installer specializing in Tesla vehicle construction.

- SAP will stop offering Teslas to its employees after the manufacturer’s repeated price cuts. Stating they fluctuate more than other manufacturers’, complicating planning and increasing risks.

- You can now transfer your FSD and free lifetime Supercharging in the US, Canada and Mexico when you take delivery of a new S3XY Tesla by the 31st of March. This includes all existing orders.

- Tesla reinstated the $1,000 discounts on new Model S, X and Y orders placed by those with an early Cybertruck reservation order. You must take delivery by the 31st of March.

- Today Minnesota introduced an EV rebate. New vehicles get a $2500 rebate at a base MSRP of $55,000 or less, excluding taxes and fees. Used vehicles get a $600 rebate at $25,000 or less.

PRICE CHANGES:

United States:

Model 3 LR is now $46,990, up from $45,990.

FLYOVERS:

Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 3rd of February, '24. Lots of Cybertrucks at the outbound lot. More sections of Prufrock are waiting to be connected on the west side. Work continues on installing the super chargers.

Giga Berlin: The Wolfpack, Robert and Andreas, 3rd of February, ’24. Another great flyover. Tow videos showcasing Phase 1 and 2.

■ SPACEX:

Entrance to the suborbital launch pad at Starbase. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer.

- Launch 11 tonight at 6:08 p.m. PT., Falcon 9 Starlink 7-13 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.

- Tomorrow at 9:05 a.m. ET, SpaceX Dragon Freedom will depart from the International Space Station with the Axiom Space Ax-3 astronauts Michael López-Alegría and Walter Villadei , Alper Gezeravcı , and Marcus Wandt. After performing a series of burns to move away from the space station, Dragon will conduct multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison its trunk, and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere for splashdown off the coast of Florida approximately nine hours later the same day. Watch live here on X about 20 minutes prior to departure.

- Still no word as to why Starship 28 has some Raptors removed. Due to this, it is expected to undergo another static fire test. Booster 13 was stacked as it sits with three other completed boosters in Mega Bay 1. Starship 26 continues to get attention with more work on the stringers. The blast wall sections near the OLM continue to be placed. Last night the booster transport stand moved from Sanchez down to the build site, so maybe Booster 10 will soon travel to the OLM.

- SpaceX posted several new signs along Boca Chica Beach going both north and south. The signs have a letter and number and as a Texas beach goer, they appear to designated trash can areas to help encourage people to dispose of trash properly.

- At Kennedy Space the first barge arrived to bring Tower sections to South Texas for the 2nd Starbase tower. If you look closely at the Tower sections, one has a little love note attached. Check it out in the thread.

- A new Octagrabber robot was lifted aboard droneship Just Read the Instructions. It replaced the badly damaged one from when Booster B1058 tipped over in December.

- The SpaceX Boeing 737-800 is registered under Falcon Aviation Holdings LLC. Its registration address is SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. I spoke to Sanjeev Sharma, Principal Engineer at SpaceX, and he confirmed it will be used for both, “testing Starlink and connecting SpaceX’s sites to Boca.”

Countdown to 144 (10 - Falcons 9, 0 - Falcon Heavies, and 0 - Starships):

- Launch 12! Tuesday, the 6th of February, at 1:33 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 NASA PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. PACE is a NASA Earth observation satellite mission. It will make global ocean color measurements to provide extended data records on ocean ecology and global along with polarimetry measurements to provide extended data records on clouds and aerosols. The booster will land back at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral.

- Launch 13! Saturday, the 10th of February, at 1:00 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-39 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

- IFT-3! Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 is targeting mid-late February.

■ THE BORING COMPANY: N/A... boring.

■ NEURALINK:

- Saturday at the premier of the film Lola, Elon took questions and answered the following about Neuralink. “We hope to have results later this week from the first patient. But so far things look positive, and I’m hopeful that by the end of this week we will be able to report that the first Neuralink patient is able to control a phone and computer. So probably in about a week from now.”

■ STARLINK:

Zoe Yates, Customer Analytics at Wharton, testing Starlink in challenging weather in Scotland.

- Kazinform News Agency is reporting that 330 schools are set to be connected to Starlink in Turkestan region, Kazakhstan, as part of Kazakh Telecom's Accessible Internet national project.

- U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson presented Starlink on Monday to Kalayaan Mayor Roberto del Mundo during the launch of the USAID INCENTIVISE (Introducing Non-Geostationary Satellite Constellations Test Deployments to Improve Internet Service) Project and Broadband ng Masa in Palawan at the VJR Hall of the Provincial Capitol Building, Puerto Princesa City.

- The Salvation Army has invested in a $225,000 FORTS (Fold-Out Rigid Temporary Spaces) system equipped with Starlink. This unit is entirely mobile and easy to deployed at sites of natural disasters like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes.

■ X: N/A...

■ xAI: N/A…

■ ELON NEWS:

- As mentioned earlier, Elon was at the Lola premier and spoke to the press briefly stating he was there to support friends and honor pilots and astronauts that came before him. He also said, “Thinking about companies to acquire…” He quickly gawked at that statement and walked off laughing.

- The New York Post is running with the 'Elon is a Drug Addict' theme. They are stating the ex Tesla board member Larry Ellison offered Elon his Hawaiian estate to sober up. Per Elon, "I took my kids there for a family trip and to discuss strategic matters with Larry Ellison." Again these are only allegations with no substance. Elon passed every drug screening via NASA.

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