The Amazon AWS Global Infrastructure is built for performance. AWS Regions offer low latency, low packet loss, and high overall network quality. This is achieved with a fully redundant 100 GbE fiber network backbone, often providing many terabits of capacity between Regions. Amazon has or will soon have about 100 data centers and each data …
Woody Allen said that 90% of life is showing up. Tom Peters said 80% of success is showing up. Tesla Bots will be able to show up better than Boston Dynamic robots. Boston Dynamics have some agile robots that are able to climb and jump over barriers in rooms. Tesla has a million cars navigating …
Here is why Tesla Bot has an assured level of success. The Tesla robots do not have to exceed the level of Boston Dynamic robots for agility to win. Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 and has recently started making about $50 million a year in revenue. Boston Dynamics has 300 top AI researchers. Boston …
Momentus has built two Vigoride vehicles, which have completed flight qualification where the satellite is tested under the conditions it will experience during launch and while in space. The first Vigoride vehicle was built was ready to fly with customer payloads onboard earlier in 2021. It was integrated onto a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in …
Tesla GigaBerlin will have 8 gigapresses which will enable the factory to produce up to 1.5 million Model Ys. Tesla Austin has similar initial capacity as Berlin. This third quarter of 2021, Tesla Shanghai is surpassing the vehicle production of Fremont. The Berlin and Austin factories are built with improvements from Tesla’s research. The Berlin …
Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, had the third part of his interview with Elon Musk. What comes through is the intense focus Elon Musk and his teams have. They are focused and operating with extreme urgency to make humanity a multi-planetary species. Elon needs to get to Mars, colonize Mars and then make Mars self-sustaining. …
Tesla’s Q2 2021 earnings call indicated there is a 3-6 month delay in the 4680 production ramp compared to their prior statements. Previously Tesla had indicated that they would have 100 GW of batteries in 2022 while now they are saying they will reach a 100 GW per year runrate by the end of 2022. …
There is a new meme called “Cozy Futurism” which is pretending that there a choice between colonizing Mars and fixing Earth-based poverty, inequality and homelessness. I think they are basing this on the historical example of the European countries that did not colonize the Americas from 1500-1800 and solved inequality, poverty and homelessness. Oh that’s …
Elon Musk says that the Tesla AI day will be August 19. Tesla AI Day August 19th — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2021 There is a version 9.1 beta FSD (Full self driving) update coming on tomorrow. Several improvements coming via V9.1 on Friday at midnight — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2021 There …
The Tesla Economist calculates that Tesla could deliver 292000 cars in Q4 of 2021 and this would be $16.2 billion in automotive revenue. This would be $6 billion more quarterly than the blowout Q2 auto revenue just reported by Tesla. This would mean about $3.1 billion in net income in Q4 versus $1.3 billion in …
Tesla Texas and Tela Berlin factories could start production of Model Y vehicles in completed buildings while completing the rest of the factories. This would enable small pilot production of a few hundred to a few thousand vehicles in Q4 2021. Close observers of the new Tesla factory construction expect the main production ramps to …
