Sunday, June 09, 2019

Two Weeks in Musk World

Lots happening in Musk World over the past two weeks.

Musk says Tesla pickup pricing my be "well under" $50,000. That's a freaking sharp looking vehicle!

Interesting and detailed one-year review by a Model 3 owner who is not new to the EV driving experience.

And the Model 3 is now available to a much larger area in Asia. Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand were all added to the purchasing portal this past week. Why Ireland is bunched in with those countries - I have no idea.

GM and Fiat Chrysler admit that they are buying regulatory credits from Tesla. Put another way major competitors are subsidizing the company that is taking market share from them. Just like they teach at Harvard Business School!

 Looks like the Model Y SUV to be initially built in the Fremont CA factory. With the factory upgrades basically paid for by GM and Fiat Chrysler credits?

With all that going on look for Tesla to continue to dominate the EV sales world (the animated graph is amazing).

NASA's first SpaceX astronauts ready for "messy camping trip" into space. To be fair the astronaut who said that, Doug Hurley, was calling all trips into space messy camping trips. The mission is hopefully slated for later this year. The mission is notable because it will utilize the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule and be the first manned spaceflight based on American soil in a decade.

And finally in what seems like it happened months ago but was really just a couple of weeks - SpaceX successfully launched the first 60 Starlink LEO satellites.

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