University of Pennsylvania’s Pennhyperloop at the Not-a-Boring-Competition. They won the Digging Mini Side-Event! Below is a video they posted of their TBM.

Want to Know what is happening with Elon Musk's companies today? Here you go! 3rd of April, 2024 ■ TESLA $TSLA ($168.38, 1.05%): - In Malibu yesterday evening, Tesla’s Lars Moravy (u/larsmoravy) and Franz von Holzhausen (u/woodhaus2) unveiled the Model 3 Ludicrous at a small event. I am not sure if this is the only unveiling event. I doubt it. Nevertheless, this Model 3 is sick! Pic by Mo S (u/theonetruemo). - Alex Ingram (u/Alex_M_Ingram) and Franz drove the Matte Black Cybertruck to the Tesla Diner and had a live "Fireside chat" with the Tesla Teams. It was all powered entirely by Cybertruck and Starlink. - The Financial Times is reporting that Tesla will send a team to India in April to look for a proposed $2 to $3 billion EV plant site. Locations include Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. - Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt visited the state of Maine to join the Recharge Maine projects official opening of 5 federally-funded Tesla Superchargers. These 5 are part of 8 charging stations fitted with adaptors for all EV types, installed in the Hannaford Supermarkets parking lot in Rockland. - Cathie Wood and Ark Invest bought 234,998 shares of Tesla yesterday, at approximately $40 million. - Elon regarding FSD, "And we will license the tech to other car companies." - Tesla Sweden is reporting 4,569 registrations in Q1, an increase of 18% QoQ. The Model Y is still the most sold car in Sweden. - Per the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association, South Korea had 25,263 newly registered imported vehicles in March. Tesla accounted for 6,025 units, placing them as South Korea’s second-largest vehicle importer for the month. - Tesla China is offering 0% for 1 to 3 years to those who order a Model 3 or Y with a downpayment of ¥80,000 ($11,000) before the 30th of April. FLYOVERS: Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (u/JoeTegtmeyer), 3rd of April, '24. Storm water pipe for the extension of Robotic Ave are staged. The multi-level parking garage is nearly full size. Cybertrucks are filling up the lots again! Subscribe to support the updates! ■ SPACEX: Tower 2 section and the Rocket Garden by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (u/cnunezimages). - Booster 11's transport stand was placed into Mega Bay 1. As of this post B11 is not yet heading to the Orbital Launch Pad. Pics show that it still does not have its Hot-Stage ring installed. Hwy 4 road closure is scheduled for the 5th of April from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for SpaceX testing. This should be for a B11 Static Fire test. - The third and final section of the water cooled flame diverter has arrived at Massey's test site. - SpaceX's Kiko Dontchev (u/TurkeyBeaver) with Jon Edwards (u/edwards345) and Gwynne Shotwell. Reviewed the Falcon and Dragon launch teams’ Q1 execution and the teams set records in just about every category: Falcon, Dragon, and fairing labor hours and cycle time Launch to launch time on all three pads and all three drone ships Two successful up/down astronaut missions for NASA and Axiom Space First ever Dragon 2 launch from pad 40 delivering cargo and research to the ISS Flawless execution on critical NASA LSP and Space Force DoD missions, including Cygnus, PACE and USSF-124 31 total launches and a 12 launch/March demonstrating the necessary rate to hit our goals this year - Per Kiko, "Most importantly, the team did all of this while reducing our injury rate and workmanship issues across the board. None of the records above count if someone gets hurt or we sacrifice reliability. Elon always reminds us that the seeds of defeat are planted on the night of victory. Despite the record quarter, the team must stay humble, stay paranoid and stay hungry!!!" - The final Orbital Launch Mount (OLM) leg at Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A has been removed. Per Chris Bergin of NASA Spaceflight (u/NASASpaceflight), "Likely a pad redesign prior to East Coast Starship launches." - In a post on LinkedIn, Carola Zhu, Senior Automation Engineer at SpaceX shared the journey of Falcon 9 rocket from its foundational infrastructure, the intricate automation systems, all the way to its final quality checks before launch. It's worth the read. Post is in the thread. Countdown to 144 (32- Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 1 - Starship): Launch 34! Friday, the 5th of April, at 2:14 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-47 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Launch 35! Friday, the 5th of April, at 7:25 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 8-1 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. Launch 36! Sunday, the 7th of April, at ??? p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Bandwagon 1 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This rideshare flight will carry dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include Capella Space’s Acadia-4 and the South Korean government’s 425 Project Flight 2. The booster will land Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. ■ THE BORING COMPANY: - Joe's flyover today at Giga Texas shows that Prufrock-3's cutterhead is completely embedded in the dirt. The concrete tunnel entrance can clearly be seen with the tarps removed. They have cleared the ground up to the highway. Spoils containment area has excavator ready to remove the dirt & more tunnel segments ready for install am so ready to see this thing in action! - This was the first time at the Not-a-Boring-Competition for the University of Pennsylvania’s Pennhyperloop team. They won the Digging Mini Side-Event! Below is a video they posted of their TBM. ■ NEURALINK: N/A... Subscribe to support the updates! ■ STARLINK: - Amalgamotion of New South Wales has installed Starlink in its entire fleet of vehicles. Their Project Engineering team is tasked with providing crucial oversight on work health, safety, and quality in the remotes of the sites. "Amalgamotion ensures that our staff can communicate safely and efficiently, no matter how remote their location may be." - SpaceX is offering Starlink installs in the US via a certified installer, The service has started in Ohio and costs $199. This is on top of the kit and service plan. Per SpaceX, "These installers have completed Starlink installation training. Customers can purchase this service via Starlink's website when purchasing a new Starlink, or by contacting Starlink Customer Support." ■ X: - Per X's Christopher Stanley (u/cstanley), "As you scroll through content, our screen has a limited capacity to display information. It's crucial that we curate the most relevant content to occupy this space effectively. There are about 7,000 posts made every second. This underscores the importance of the For You timeline." - The X exclusive WWE SPEED has aired their first episode. Link in the sources section. - Year-to-Date, X Communities has grown by 600%. - Organic Search Traffic for March was 700.8 million, up from 611 million in February ( 14.69%). ■ xAI: - Tesla's FSD Vision Lead Ethan Knight (u/__eknight__) has joined the xAI team. Per Elon, "Ethan was going to join OpenAI, so it was either xAI or them. They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases." ■ ELON NEWS: - Elon made an appearance in New York at the opening of "A Brief History Of The Future." This is a six-part PBS documentary series about our futures and how we can reimagine them. It challenges the dystopian framework embraced by popular culture by offering a refreshing take on the future. __________ Please Repost and Spread the Real News! More Stories and Pics in the Thread! __________ If you enjoy the updates, please support my efforts by subscribing. If you are interested in Tesla products or a Test Drive, you can also support me by using my Tesla Referral in my bio. For a better, cleaner read with more media, user tags, and sources, check out the Article version of today's update: x.com/SERobinsonJr/status/17… Thanks, everyone!