Elon Musk has said that there will be an interesting demo by the end of 2022 for the Teslabot and low volume mass production in 2023. Low volume mass production for Tesla EVs in 2022 means about 1000 to 2000 cars per week. Teslabots weigh 40 times less than a Model Y. Low volume mass …
Joe Justice (x-Tesla Agile Program Manager) describes how the Tesla Austin Factory has been architected 3D agile cells. Each hexagonal agile cell can send product from the cell to any other adjacent cell. The cells are connecting in 3 dimensions. Cells can be beside in two dimensions but they can also be above or below. …
Fully and Rapidly Replicable Factories will be the highest impact economic development ever made. They will be more important than the wheel, computers or fire. Once one is made that can make another factory in two years or less then we will be able expand humanity by one million times and fill up the solar …
Tesla has confirmed they will build a new factory on land near its existing Shanghai plant which is poised to add an annual capacity of 450,000 cars. Tesla still reports that Shanghai currently builds over 450,000 cars per year even though monthly runrates are actually over 800,000 cars per year and capacity is over 1 …
Elon Musk talked many times about the importance of fully and rapidly reusable rockets. This has been coming closer and closer with several years of first stages being recovered and reused. About 80% of the value of the Falcon 9 is recovered with reused first stages and the payload farings. Fully and rapidly reusable will …
Tesla had more net income than GM and ford in Q1 2022. Total Q1 vehicle sales: • GM: 1,427,000 (down -19.5% YoY) • Ford: 970,000 (down -9% YoY) • Tesla: 310,048 (up +67.7% YoY) Total Q1 net income: • Tesla: $3.3B (+607% YoY) • GM: $2.9B (-3% YoY) • Ford: $2.3B (if not including $5.4B …
Tesla Full Self Driving beta is being used by over 100,000 people. Normally 100,000 US drivers have 12.4 fatal accidents each year. This is over one fatality per month. Normally 100,000 drivers would have 163 accidents with injuries each month. There are so far no reported injury or fatality accidents after over four months of …
Musk announced Thursday morning he has $21 billion in cash equity from himself and other co-investors to make a $46.5 billion bid for Twitter and Elon arranged $25.5 billion of committed debt financing through Morgan Stanley. The debt is loans against Twitter and Tesla. Musk can make a tender offer conditioned on Twitter removing the …
Elon Musk has described a vision for a self-sustaining Mars City with 100k to 1 million people that would be hard on the pioneers to establish. He also has described a vision for Teslabots where it would be useful and perhaps there would be one per household. Brian Wang explores where SpaceX and Tesla and …
Elon Musk says the only way to solve self driving is to solve real world AI. You have to have cameras and silicon brains match human vision and biological brains. Elon still thinks Tesla will solve full self driving this year which means Elon thinks Tesla will solve real world AI in a meaningful way. …
ARK Invest has updated its Tesla model and it provides new expected value per share of $4,600 in 2026. Ark Invest is famous for correctly predicting Tesla would run to over $4000 three years before they did. They correctly called a greater than 10X move. This projection does not factor in scenarios where Tesla has …