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

Added 2025-07-22 21:36:30 +0000 UTC

22nd of July, 2025

"Nothing can compare to a system designed to make life/consciousness multiplanetary..." - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA TSLA 0.51%↑ ($332.11, +1.10%)":

Per Tesla’s Franz von Holzhausen (@woodhaus2), “We’re open! Come Eat, Charge, and Watch!” At 4:20 p.m. yesterday, the Tesla Diner officially opened to the public. The grand opening was conducted by Tesla legend and vehicle designer Franz von Holzhausen. Tesla Joy (@TeslaJoy) celebrated her half birthday... Is that even a thing?

Per Elon, "We put a lot of effort into using truly organic ingredients from farms that we have visited."

- Jose Asumendi, JPMorgan's head of global automotive research, tested Robotaxi in Austin for a full day, describing the experience as "solid" and "safe at all times."

- Today, Tesla India announced that everyone in India can now order directly on the website.

- Today, Tesla held a technical training program for 600 MWh Megapack 2 XL site at the Tarong Power Station; a 1,500-hectare site in Tarong, South Burnett Region, near the town of Nanango, Queensland, Australia. Tesla broke down the system architecture, commissioning processes, safety protocols, and grid integration. Pics by Tarong Power Station Electircal Engineer, Saranga Wettasinghe.

- Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX now have access to Tesla's Supercharger network in the U.S. with the Honda-approved NACS-CCS DC adapter.

- Tesla was at The Black Market Cork in Ireland this weekend. Giving out test drives and Soma Coffee. Per Tesla's Lloyd O'Flanagan, "Massive thank you to all the team and community at The Black Market Cork! Everyone experienced the future of driving with a coffee."

- In Spain, you can now get a Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive for 25,000 EUR, using taking advantage of local government incentives + the Tesla Boost. This includes MOVES III, a Spanish government program to subsidize EV purchases and charging infrastructure with up to €7,000 per individual, and Tesla Boost, a manufacturer incentive enhancing affordability with a €7,500 fuel savings incentive and up to €7,000 plus 15% tax deduction under Spain’s €1.735 billion EV package. Tesla boost is valid until September 30th.

- Per Tesla Service Manager, Michael Malcolm, "Exciting first week at the new Los Gatos Tesla! Proud of my Service team for their incredible work on the new facility. Sales are now up and running too!"

- Tesla China recorded 9,900 new vehicle insurance registrations for the week of July 14–20, a 19.3% decline from the 12,270 units that were listed in the week prior.

- Tesla China VP Grace Tao Lin posted on Weibo highlighting the Giga Shanghai's after-work activities, where over 200 workers participate in the Tesla Spring Basketball League. The factory's basketball team also competed in the "Lingang Cup" City Amateur League last month, winning third place. The factory also organized table tennis and badminton competitions... What you got Giga Texas?

■ SPACEX:

- Salvage vessel LB Jill returned to the Port of Brownsville this morning with the recovered aft/engine section of Super Heavy Booster 13. @NASASpaceflight provided great footage via their live stream. Link to the live stream is in the SOURCES SECTION.

- Today, the Trump administration is seeking alternatives to SpaceX's Starlink for the $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense project. They have started courting Jeff Bezos and his Project Kuiper, Rocket Lab, and Stoke Space. Per Elon, "Federal acquisition regulations require using the best provider at the best price. Anything else would be breaking the law.”

- Starship 38 is getting ready to start cro-testing.

- Today, SpaceX transferred 1,308 Bitcoin, worth approximately $153 million, from 16 Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) addresses to a single SegWit-compatible Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash (P2WPKH) address. This is SPaceX's first on-chain activity in three years. This $29 consolidation transaction suggests a strategic adjustment rather than a sale. SpaceX still holds 6,977 BTC, valued at about $815 million.

Starbase City Commission Meeting:

No meetings scheduled at this time.

Countdown to 180 (88 - Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 3 - Starship):

Launch 92! July, Tuesday, 22nd of July, at 5:12 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 O3b mPower 9-10 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. 2 high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.
Launch 92! Wednesday, 23rd of July, at 11:13 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 TRACERS will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will return to site and land at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg. This is NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, consisting of two identical satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem (one following the other), will help understand magnetic re-connection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic re-connection occurs when activity from the Sun interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth.
Launch 94! Friday, 25th of July, at 4:50 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! Friday, 25th 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! Monday, 28th of July, at 12:15 a.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! Tuesday, 29th 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 ??! 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 ??! Flight 10 NET August 4th.

■ THE BORING COMPANY: N/A... boring.

■ NEURALINK:

- The Neuralink team celebrating their 2 new successful BCI implants of patients 8 and 9 at University of Miami this past weekend. Per Matthew King of Vanquish Venture Partners, "All I did was pick a good restaurant 😂 All credit to Dr. Jordan Amadio (@AmadioMD) and his Neuralink team! Two new patients are able to control smart phones and computers with just their thoughts, and soon we could see cures for myriad neurological diseases not to mention the potential for orders of magnitude increases in human productivity."

Per Neuralink's Dr. Jordan Amadio, "Can you feel the 🧠 acceleration yet?"

Per Neuralink's DJ Seo (@djseo), "True metric is the area under the curve of how many people and how much we help them. And how quickly. No meaningful relevance without it."

■ STARLINK:

- Tomorrow, T-Mobile will officially launch T-Satellite; their partnership with SpaceX for Starlink Direct-to-Cell messaging. T-Satellite users will be able to send SMS texts on iPhone and Android. Android users will also get MMS immediately, with iPhone support to follow. Customers on T-Mobile's Experience Beyond plan ($100 per month for one line) or the Go5G Next plan will get the service for included in the cost of the plan going forward, and those on the Experience More plan ($85 per month) will get it through the end of the year. If you didn't take advantage of being a beta tester and sign up for the $5/mo subscription, you will pay the a standard $10/mo. T-Mobile says 911 texting will be available later this year to any mobile customer with a compatible device, regardless of carrier. If you’re a Verizon or AT&T customer, you’ll have to activate T-Satellite as a second eSIM on your phone to take advantage of the service.

- SpaceX is offering up to $25,000 through its bug bounty program to security researchers who identify vulnerabilities in Starlink. Ove rthe last 3 months, 43 bugs have already been discovered with payouts averaging $913.75. The company congratulated researcher Lennert Wouters for uncovering a technically impressive hardware vulnerability requiring invasive physical access to bypass secure boot protections in a Starlink user terminal. SpaceX processes submissions within four days, with 75% accepted or rejected in that timeframe. There is a a "Hall of Fame" for top researchers.

- Aura Group, an authorized Starlink reseller in Zimbabwe, launched Starlink Mobile Priority Plans today that offer high-speed internet, unlimited standard data, and priority data for optimal performance during peak congestion, targeting industries like agriculture, healthcare, and education.

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■ X:

- In a unanimous ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with X, limiting the U.S. government’s ability to impose gag orders that prevent X from notifying the public about government search warrants and subpoenas. Last year, X received a subpoena demanding personal information of former FBI agents and whistleblowers Kyle Seraphin and Garrett O’Doyle, who had revealed to Congress the FBI’s improper targeting of politically disfavored groups, leading to their firing and a criminal investigation in apparent retaliation. X challenged it, arguing it violated federal statutes and the First Amendment. X is free to promote transparency and accountability in government investigations.

■ xAI:

- Elon posted pics showing us our first views inside Colossus 2. Per Elon, "Cable pr0n of xAI's GB200 servers at Colossus 2. All liquid-cooled. 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s, are operational for training Grok in a single supercluster called Colossus 1 (inference is done by our cloud providers). At Colossus 2, the first batch of 550k GB200s & GB300s, also for training, start going online in a few weeks. As Jensen Huang has stated, xAI is unmatched in speed. It’s not even close. The xAI goal is 50 million in units of H100 equivalent-AI compute (but much better power-efficiency) online within 5 years."

Per xAI's Colossus Lead Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX), "Why spend 2-3 years engineering and planning, then 2-3 years building when you can do it all in one year. The xAI Memphis team has been slightly busy. 🔌"

Per xAI's Andree Jacobson (@nmswede), "We're just getting started..."

- The latest image of Colossus 2 in Southaven.

The xAI Memphis account stated, "In mid-February we broke ground at our new data center at Tulane in Shelby County, Tennessee. We have begun deploying the initial phase of computing infrastructure. This initiative includes the installation of an additional 110,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, powered by a diverse array of energy sources, similar to Colossus. We are building similar redundancies for Colossus 2 that mimics the success we’ve seen at Colossus. This includes Tesla Megapacks to provide critical support during peak demand periods, ensuring a stable power supply while safeguarding Shelby County residents from potential blackouts. We expect to power on this facility within the next few weeks. As is the case at Electrolux, we are excited to be a valuable partner to Memphis."

- Reports are dropping that xAI is working with Valor Equity Partners to secure up to $12 billion in debt to expand and purchase more Nvidia chips to train and power Grok. Valor Equity Partners is an investment firm whose founder is Elon's close friend Antonio Gracias. They are in talks with lenders to raise the capital. They are saying some lenders are requiring repayment within a short timeframe of three years and capping the borrowed amount to limit risk. They are also setting a limit on how much can be borrowed, preventing the company from taking on excessive debt that could be harder to repay. None of the has been confirmed and Elon is quick to dismiss such reports if untrue.

■ DOGE:

Estimated Savings: $190 Billion

Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $1,180.12

■ ELON NEWS: N/A...

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