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ELON CHRON: The Daily Chronicle of Elon Musk’s Companies

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“Extreme execution is needed, but a valuation of $20 trillion for Tesla is possible…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA ($316.06, +3.52%):

– In Denmark, Tesla’s Electric Summer Vol. 2 is hitting up local Superchargers. Today they were at Søndervig. Here are the locations for this weekend; Saturday – Kliplev, Sunday – Maribo, and Monday – Nyborg. Per Nicholas Elston, Tesla Customer Engagement, “We are already 2 days into our electric summer tour – and the atmosphere is top-notch! In 5 days, we visit 5 Superchargers around Denmark. Come by, say hello, have a chat about electric cars and experience the Tesla community up close.” Pics by Nicholas.

– Chinese state media CCTV and Dcar tested 36 electric vehicle ADAS systems in highway and urban scenarios, including night driving and obstacles. Tesla’s vision-based FSD system on the Model 3 (RWD Refreshed) and Model X (2023 LR Refreshed) led, passing 5/6 tests, outperforming LiDAR-equipped Chinese brands like Huawei’s Aito M9 and Xiaomi’s SU7, which struggled with complex conditions despite China’s data restrictions.

Per Elon, “Due to laws against data export, Tesla achieved the top results in China despite having no local training data. Tesla is adding training data from our world simulator and test tracks to achieve 6/6.”

Per Tesla China VP Tom Zhu (@tomzhu_nz), “6/6 = Keep You Safe!”

– The 108 Megapack 2XL 200 MW/400 MWh grid-scale battery CS Energy Greenbank Battery. This site is located in Greenbank, a suburb in Logan City, southeast Queensland, Australia, and began commercial operations in June 2025. It is capable of powering 66,000 homes for two hours. In the pic are Electrical Maintainer Operators Mark Colles, CS Energy Chief Executive Officer Brian Gillespie, Operations Superintendent Renewables and Firming Mick Louis, Government Relations and Social Performance Manager Jess Chad, and Jeff Watts.

– Tesla Europe has two new centers in Italy. One is in North Rome, located in Saxa Rubra. This center is already open to the public, and from the 29th of July to the 6th of August 6, Cybertruck and Optimus will be on display. The second center, opening the 29th of July, is in Puglia, in the Casamassima shopping center in Bari.

– The new bk World Lounge at the 56 stall Tesla Supercharger in Magnant, France, 250 kilometers southeast of Paris.

– Supposedly, Tesla is set to launch a Robotaxi pilot program in the San Francisco Bay Area. This comes from Business Insider, so big grain of salt with this. The service is to operate within a large geofenced area covering Marin, much of the East Bay, San Francisco, and San Jose, but unlike the Austin pilot, it will include safety drivers in the driver’s seat who can manually intervene using the steering wheel and brakes. Tesla has not secured a California DMV permit for fully driverless operations.

– Tesla Delivery Advisory, Leona Bong, hanging out with Optimus in Malaysia.

– Glen Hart and the Bastrop Economic Development Corporation toured Giga Texas this week. Per Glen, “I’ve never toured a ‘regular’ car factory but this almost felt like a Disney exhibit showing what a car factory could look like in the future. Humans and Robots working together creating the most American-made, safest vehicles ever, right here in Austin at a little mile long, 11 million sq. ft. building on 2,500-acres…”

– All Current U.S. Tesla Incentives Every New Tesla. Click HERE.

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

  • Giga Berlin: Tobias Lindh (@tobilindh), 24th of July, ’25.

■ SPACEX:

– SpaceX’s rendering of their newly acquired Space Launch Complex 37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Dual Starship Towers!

– Elon posted that he will host a live technical update on Starship before Flight 10. “I will go over progress to date and engineering, production, launch plans for the future.”

– Last night in Mega Bay 2, Starship 37 got outfitted with the 2nd aft flap; her last and final flap. Consensus is that all 6 Raptors are installed as well. We should see her Static Fire campaign on the adapted Pad 1 OLM soon.

– Drone ship Just Read the Instructions returns to Port Canaveral with Falcon 9 first stage booster B1090 after it’s successful 6th launch of O3b mPower 9 & 10. Pic is by Gavin Richmond (@tweetsiphotos). Follow Gavin here on X for amazing pics from the Cape.

– Chef Marcel, accompanied by members and colleagues from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, visited Starbase to explore internship opportunities for students. They were given a comprehensive tour of the Starfactory and employee amenities. They ended with a dinner hosted by SpaceX’s hospitality executives.

– NASA is inviting U.S. media to cover SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply mission to the ISS, launching NET August 11th. Media must apply for accreditation by 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 30, 2025, via an online portal, and can contact [email protected] for accreditation questions or 321-867-2468 for other inquiries. I will apply and let you know how it goes..

Starbase City Commission Meeting:

  • Regular Meeting: 20th of August, at 7:00 p.m. CT. Located at 39046 LBJ Blvd, Unit 2, Brownsville, TX 78521

Countdown to 180 (90 – Falcon 9, 0 – Falcon Heavy, and 3 – Starship):

  • Launch 94! Saturday, 26th of July, at 4:28 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-26 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 95! Saturday, 26th of July, at 7:09 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 17-2 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 96! Tuesday, 29th of July, at 11:30 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-29 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 97! Wednesday, 30th of July, at 8:39 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 13-4 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 98! Thursday, 31st of July, at 12:09 p.m. ET, NASA SpaceX Falcon 9 Crew-11 will launch from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This will be Crew Dragon Endeavour’s 6th flight. Booster B1094 will return to site and land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

  • Launch 99! Saturday, 2nd of August, at 7:05 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 17-4 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 ??! Flight 10 NET August 4th.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

– Today, The Boring Company’s Vegas LOOP earned the TSA Gold Standard Award. This award is based on a 17-category evaluation under the Baseline Assessment for Security Enhancement (BASE) program. This places the LOOP amongst the most elite transit systems like Oahu Transit Services and GoTriangle for its top-tier security and emergency preparedness.

■ NEURALINK: N/A…

■ STARLINK:

– Yesterday’s Starlink outage lasted approximately 2.5 hours and was due to a failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. Per Michael Nicolls (

@michaelnicollsx

), VP of Starlink Engineering, “We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again.”

– Yesterday, reports indicated that the Executive Yuan of Taiwan has approved a six-year NT$27 billion (approximately US$923 million) investment plan in next-gen communications technology, aiming to attract at least three international LEO satellite constellations by 2030, with Starlink positioned as a key target. If true, this marks a shift from previous hesitations, where Taiwan avoided Starlink over concerns about SpaceX’s China-linked supply chain and potential government influence on Elon via Giga Shanghai. Of note, Starlink has not applied for a license in Taiwan.

– Osvaldo Gago, Starlink B2B division through Elipgo Technology in Argentina, collaborates with DeepAgro, a company specializing in AI-driven agricultural solutions, to enhance connectivity for its clients. By equipping DeepAgro’s machinery with Starlink Minis, the SprAi product—designed for selective spraying in crops like soybeans, maize, peanuts, and cotton—ensures reliable, high-speed internet access in remote agricultural regions across Argentina. This partnership is backed by Elipgo Starlink’s service level agreement (SLA) guaranteeing 99.6% uptime. This connectivity supports DeepAgro’s mission to optimize agricultural efficiency through real-time data and advanced technology.

■ X: N/A…

■ xAI:

– If you have any suggestions for the new Grok driven Recommendation Algorithm, let xAI’s Greg Yang (@TheGregYang) know HERE. If anything, tell him they need to put X Article suggestions into the algo. Thanks.

■ DOGE:

Estimated Savings: $190 Billion

Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $1,180.12

■ ELON NEWS:

– After Trump post yesterday on Elon and his companies, Elon replied saying, “The “subsidies” he’s talking about simply do not exist. DJT has already removed or put an expiry date on all sustainable energy support while leaving massive oil & gas subsidies untouched. SpaceX won the NASA contracts by doing a better job for less money. Moving those contracts to other aerospace companies would leave astronauts stranded and taxpayers on the hook for twice as much!“

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Have a great weekend!

■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

  • Giga Berlin: Tobias Lindh

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