“Then place copies of that etched in a stable oxide in orbit, the Moon and Mars to preserve it for the future. Foundation…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
■ TESLA ($460.55, +1.80%):
– Optimus towering over New York at One Times Square and Nasdaq! Pic by Anthony Pierro, General Manager at Tesla New York.
– Karen Scarpetta, has been appointed as Tesla’s country manager in Colombia. She is a Colombian executive with a degree in International Business and Marketing from Griffith University in Australia, previous roles at Groupon and EF Education First, and a key position at WeWork since 2017 where she led its Colombia launch and directed South America and Mexico operations. Tesla Motors Colombia S.A.S. was incorporated on January 4, 2024, before the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, declaring activities in EV trade and maintenance, energy commercialization, and energy distribution device manufacturing. Tesla will officially enter the at the International Auto Show in Bogotá from November 14th to 23rd.
– The new Tesla Chile experience store is getting a lot of hype. Since Tesla’s March 2024 market entry, two Pop-up Stores in eastern Santiago and an additional two in Viña del Mar and Concepción, the company has sold 1,611 vehicles overall. Going into this week, they were at 663 units delivered year-to-date in 2025 with a goal of 1,000 for the year. This goal will place Tesla among the country’s top EV sellers. The new store is located at Cenco Mall Alto Las Condes, in Santiago. Video by Diario Financiero.
– American Home Contractors’ (@AHCDMV) new video dissects the Tesla Energy Solar Roof’s physical components. Breakdown includes the distinction between active solar tiles that generate power and non-solar glass tiles for aesthetic integration, the protective underlayment beneath them, the durable metal flashing system for weatherproofing seams and edges, the embedded wiring for electrical connectivity, and their seamless attachment to the underlying roof structure via specialized mounting hardware.
– Aimee Frugoli, Tesla’s Sr Recruiter for the Manufacturing Program, hosted educators from Washoe County School District at Giga Nevada. The group toured the plant’s lines, test-drove Model Ys and Cybertrucks, and tackled a collaborative hands-on challenge to spark ideas on manufacturing innovation. Wrapping up was a dynamic panel and Q&A with Senior Leaders and Managers, diving into the Manufacturing Development Program (MDP). MDP is a high school apprenticeship partnering with Nevada’s Governor’s Office of Economic Development, offering paid training in robotics, assembly, and sustainability to pipeline local grads into Tesla roles.
– Theresa Reyna, Tesla Recruiter, visited Canyon High School earlier this month to present the Manufacturing Development Program. The students were highly engaged.
– The young American EV company Slate announced that its flagship electric pickup and SUV conversion kit will feature Tesla’s NACS port, granting access to the Supercharger network.
– Tesla has a new job opening for a “Manufacturing Engineer, Roadster” located at the Fremont factory with a salary range of $80,000 to $174,000. The role involves the validating processes from prototype builds to full-volume production for the Roadster’s new battery architecture. Position link in the sources section.
– Josef Tadich (@JosefTadich), Tesla Energy APAC Regional Director, will join a Clean Energy Council panel at All Energy Australia on October 30th from 11:10 – 12:40 in Room 211 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). “The Cheaper Home Batteries Program, launched earlier this year, is already delivering around 1,000 installations a day across Australia – that’s around 5 to 10 MW per day. The current NEM utility-scale battery dispatch record is 2169 MW. Can home batteries catch up and accelerate household participation in the energy transition? The race is on!”
– Tesla’s energy storage team, including Ana Cristina Fiallo, Tesla’s Business Development and Policy Lead for Latin America, recently met with Mexico’s CENACE to discuss sizing, operating, and integrating Megapacks and Powerwalls into the National Electric System (SEN). Each are looking to address challenges like variable solar/wind integration, peak load strains, and the 35% clean energy target. Supported by SENER’s Power Sector Development Plan 2025-2039 emphasizing BESS for reliability and renewables, Mexico is planning its first national BESS auction for 300 MW of 4-hour discharge capacity, projecting a $3.8 billion market by 2030. Per Ana, “With Tesla’s global expertise and CENACE’s deep system knowledge, we’re building the foundation for a more resilient, flexible, and sustainable grid.” Other team members include Sarah Walinga, Mohammed Nassar, Sayan Samanta, Dr. Eduardo Rosales, and Erandi Sombra.
– Groundwork for the Tesla Collision Center in Arlington, Texas. Pics provided by 4X Industrial Preconstruction Manager, Manish Parajuli.
– The Superchargers Network ranked highest in Norway’s CPO Customer Satisfaction Survey by EPSI Norway for the fifth consecutive year! It excelled in reliability, pricing, and ease of use for both Tesla and non-Tesla vehicles, with overall satisfaction increasing. Per Tesla Supercharging Director, Max de Zegher (@MdeZegher), “5th year in a row, in a country where 98% of cars sold are EVs. We’re always learning from our Norwegian customers. Plug & charge should be the way all customers pay for charging. Extreme cold makes that further obvious.”
■ SPACEX:
– Yesterday, launch 142 of Falcon 9 Starlink 11-21 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 19th flight for first stage booster . It previously launched USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, and 13 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 28 Starlinks were deployed.
Per SpaceX VP of Launch, Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver), “Falcon Launch #137 of 2025. The SpaceX west coast team is absolutely crushing it. They set another record with a launch to launch turn at 2d 10h 22min 59s. The droneship made it to position roughly 15 seconds before the start of propellant load. A huge thanks to Vandenberg Space Force Base (@SLDelta30) for their continued support in enabling safe and reliable launch!”
– Starship 39’s common dome was spotted leaving the Starfactory last night and into Mega Bay 2. Pic via @LabPadre‘s live feed.
– Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver) and the awesome SpaceX Electrical Engineer, Mike Coryell (@MikeCoryell), participated at the annual YPO Real Estate Global Conference in Orlando, Florida, leading a session on problem-solving at scale with a 5-step approach: 1. Challenge requirements, 2. Try to delete the problem, 3. Simplify, 4. Accelerate, 5. Automate, in that sequence, to avoid over-engineering and prioritize essentials. For reference, Mike lead the Starlink recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene. He helped a ton of people.
– Joseph Provenza, Lead Starship Infrastructure Engineer, took this pic of the Giga Bay construction site. “Gigabay gearing up to go vertical! The future of Starship is now. Go SpaceX!“
– On Roberts Road at Kennedy Space Center, NSF got new views the Starship Tower sections for SLC-37. They already have 7 out of 9 modules! Be on the look out for @NASASpaceflight‘s flyover video.
Starbase City Commission Meeting (Located at The Hub, 39046 LBJ Blvd, Unit 2, Brownsville, TX 78521):
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City Commission Regular Meeting, November 19, 2025 7:00 PM
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City Commission Regular Meeting, December 17, 2025 7:00 PM
Countdown to 180 (137 – Falcon 9, 0 – Falcon Heavy, and 5 – Starship):
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Launch 143! Wednesday, 29th of October, at 12:16 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-37 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.
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Launch 143! Thursday, 30th of October, at 1:06 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-23 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.
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Launch 144! Sunday, 2nd of November, at 1:09 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Bandwagon 4 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. This is SpaceX’s 4th dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
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Launch 145! Tuesday, 4th of November, at 1:41 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-14 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.
■ THE BORING COMPANY:
– Sierra Calhoun-Pollard, Director of the Blackstone LaunchPad at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, facilitated a field experience for 25 students from the university’s Master of Science in Entrepreneurship program. TBC HQ in Bastrop was part of the tour. “At The Boring Company, every conversation sparked inspiration and possibility.”
■ NEURALINK:
Per the BarrowNeurological Institue (@BarrowNeuro), “Alex Conley, who has a spinal cord injury, was the 2nd patient to undergo neurosurgery at Barrow to receive Neuralink‘s N1 Implant as part of the PRIME Study. Now, also enrolled in CONVOY, Alex is the 1st to use the brain-computer interface (BCI) device to control a robotic arm.
Per Neuralink, “As the first person to use a Neuralink device to control a robotic arm with his thoughts, Alex has been paving the way for building brain-computer interfaces that restore autonomy in both the digital and physical worlds.” Convoy = Cyberpunk Augmentations… soon.
– Nick Wray (@Telepath_8), NP8, traveled to Miami for his 90-day post op follow-up. He met up with Audrey Crews (@NeuraNova9), NP9, who received her implant hours after him. Nick posted on the journey where he discussed new brain function insights with neurosurgeons from @umneurosurgery and @buonicontifund. Read about it HERE.
– “Neuralink and ALS – Building Neural Interfaces to Restore Autonomy”! Thursday, 6th of November, at 8 p.m. ET. YouTube Live link HERE.
■ STARLINK:
– Starlink is now free for those in Jamaica and the Bahamas impacted by Hurricane Melissa through the end of November.
■ 𝕏:
– Chucky (@chucky), co-founder of ViewStats and head of MrBeast’s ideas and thumbnails team, announced the acquisition of the @Beast X handle for Beast Industries, the holding company encompassing MrBeast (@MrBeast)’s media, products like Feastables, and software ventures. This enabled a verified badge across all subsidiaries and MrBeast’s personal account. Per Chucky, “Thanks to @XHandles for helping us.” This is one of the first and biggest X Handle transactions so far.
Per X Original Content & Creators Lead, Tyler Gold (@tylergold), “Chucky and the entire MrBeast team are… beasts. Pumped for their epic new @Beast handle!”
■ xAI:
– Matan Grinberg (@matanSF), CEO of Factory AI (@FactoryAI), proposed the integration of Grok into Factory’s Droid, the leading AI software development agent. Factory AI achieved 58.8% success on Terminal-Bench leaderboard using Claude Opus 4.1 model, surpassing competitors like Claude Code at 43.2% and Codex CLI at 42.8% on tasks including debugging, code modernization, and model training. Grinberg tagged xAI founder Greg Yang (@TheGregYang) to facilitate the effort. Well, Greg did. “Results for Grok x Droid in Terminal Bench coming soon.”
– Per Elon, “The goal of Grok and Grokipedia is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal.
Grok generated about 1M articles using a lot of compute.
Nice work by the xAI team on Grokipedia! The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge. Then place copies of that etched in a stable oxide in orbit, the Moon and Mars to preserve it for the future. Foundation.” Video by Robert (@javajitter).
– Miłosz Jankiewicz (@Jaaneek), web developer, designer, and AI enthusiast, just announced that he has joined xAI. He gives credit to @levelsio‘s for his advice to post on X and building startups for unexpectedly leading him there. “Thanks for inviting me to build the greatest AI company, Toby Pohlen (@TobyPhln). Pic is Milosz on the right and Toby on the left at what I believe is X London.
– How to fix mistakes in Grokipedia.
■ ELON NEWS:
– Per Elon, “Wired, The Atlantic, Guardian and many other propaganda legacy publications would die immediately if they had to support themselves. Donations from far left organizations disguised as charities are what keep them alive. They serve simply as a means of influencing Wikipedia, Google, etc as fake “authoritative” sources.”
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■ SOURCES:
Tesla:
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https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/manufacturing-engineer-roadster-254365
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https://www.valoraanalitik.com/tesla-ya-tiene-fecha-para-iniciar-operaciones-en-colombia/
SpaceX:
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Starlink Mission 11-21
Elon News: