TeslaDonkey

@SawyerMerritt @carwowuk Test drove a new M Y in the uk today. It had FSD. I tried it out cos my Y only has autopilot. It didn’t work very well as I expected, given it’s not legal yet. The EAP was phenomenal. Except for no tactical lane changing. Cos it’s not legal yet. Bloody UK!!

Carwow just released a new video to its 11 million YouTube subscribers titled: "Why Tesla Full Self Drive is Pointless!" @carwowuk misleads its viewers into thinking Tesla’s Autopilot is FSD, even though FSD hasn’t been approved in the UK yet. Autopilot isn’t meant for city driving, yet they test of bunch of scenarios that Autopilot wasn't built to do in the first place....

Why didn’t nature give us energy abundance? Evolution doesn’t hand out free lunches—it’s all about survival in a scarce world. For billions of years, life competed for limited energy: photosynthesis is slow and low-power, animals need dense fuel from eating others. Scarcity forced trade-offs—big brains, mobility, intelligence—but always tight metabolic budgets. No infinite internal batteries built-in. We broke free with ingenuity: fire, farming, fossils, and now solar + batteries. Nature optimized for efficiency under constraints; humanity engineered our way to plenty. Fast-forward to now and the near future: We’re on track for real energy abundance. Solar costs keep plummeting (utility-scale already dirt-cheap in sunny spots), batteries dropping sharply and crossing key thresholds. Surplus power during peak sun hours is becoming the norm—think “superabundant” electricity for EVs, desalination, vertical farms, AI data centers, and more. In high-insolation regions like deserts, we can generate far more than needed at near-zero extra cost. Global grids are electrifying hard: demand surges from EVs, heat pumps, industry. Renewables + massive storage will handle 50–70%+ of electricity by mid-century, making energy a non-issue for most uses. From Darwinian limits to engineered abundance: humanity is building the energy era nature couldn’t. Cheap, clean power unlocks everything—widespread EV adoption without range worries, abundant food through energy-intensive vertical farming and desalination, economic growth without fossil dependence. The bottleneck isn’t tech anymore—it’s deployment speed: grids, permitting, minerals. But the trajectory? Clear yes. Energy abundance is coming, and it’ll feel amazing. Who’s accelerating it? ⚡🌞🚀

I’ve just completed a 3000 mile journey in my Y through France, Spain , Gibraltar , Portugal and Andorra. 95% of the time I supercharged with Tesla. I did however attempt to try a few other charging companies, however despite the chargers actually being serviceable, I had endless problems with App glitches that either froze when I got to the payment page or just plain didn’t work. Nearly all of these chargers did have the ability to pay with a contactless debit/credit card, however confusing menus, lack of English as an option on the screens meant I just could not get them to work. Some third party prices seemed competitive, but it’s no good if you have no way of paying! Tesla charging is cheap and very very reliable.

SCOOP: Tesla is the cheapest fast charging option in 18 out of 29 countries in Europe! In the non-membership prices. Even better for members. This is based on the analysis I made into thousands of CPOs across Europe, creating a leaderboard per country: eleport.com/price-report

@TheEVuniverse Next stop, 10 employees! Well done mate!

I hired my first full-time employee today. I'm a solo founder, 5 years in, and this is a huge milestone for me. I never see this celebrated here on X - only the huge funding rounds or $ MRR growth posts. A human. Working with me, on the same mission now. Such a big deal.

@VictoriaZeev @SawyerMerritt Building out enough 5G towers to serve every remote village throughout the world would cost orders of magnitude more 💰 than simply connecting via Starlink which is capable of covering every square metre of the planet.

@SawyerMerritt So we’re celebrating billionaire satellites replacing proper infrastructure? How about investing in local networks instead of making space billionaires richer?

NEWS: Globe Telecom said it has successfully tested Starlink’s Mobile service in the Philippines, allowing phones to connect in areas with no signal. The pilot was done in Rizal, Batangas, and Bataan, where users were able to send messages, make calls, and use data even without nearby cell towers. "This will be our lifeline, especially during disasters and our complementary coverage in areas where terrestrial network is not available," said Joel Agustin, Senior Vice President for Service Planning and Engineering at Globe. "The service will also address the connectivity requirements of GIDA (Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas) communities and strengthen coverage across the country's territorial boundaries," he added.

@SawyerMerritt @grok How many chargers have been built by Tesla since the very beginning? List them by year and percentage increase/decrease year on year.

Just completing a 5000km European road trip in my Y. I wish more hotels would have these as destination chargers. Also Tesla need more superchargers actually on the highways in the EU and not away from them. That said, there is no other way to road trip than a Tesla with supercharging.

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@niccruzpatane Just driven 4000km across Europe in a Tesla that already does that way better than me.

Ford CEO Jim Farley: “Just around the corner, like in a couple years, most of the car companies (I know at Ford) will be offering eyes-off highway driving. So you push a button on the highway and the car drives for you, that's all found time. Unlike a lot of promise to autonomy, it actually is. We now have to think about the car as a third space.”

I’ve driven my Tesla through 16 countries and I can tell you with great certainty that EV infrastructure is growing inline with EV growth, but only if you are in a Tesla and using superchargers on long trips. I always try to avoid third party chargers because I can only get them to work <50% of the time!

Ford CEO Jim Farley thinks the EV charging infrastructure isn’t there yet, which is why Ford is focusing on building E-REVs (hybrids): “For vehicles for short distance, and most of our lives are, you know, commuting or going the store, an EV is perfect. It's actually much cheaper to own—even in California, where electricity prices are expensive. As Americans in California, we drive long distance too, and the charging isn't there yet, as much as the (Tesla) Supercharger Networks are great. We have a lot of work to do. In the meantime, there's a lot of exciting technologies coming where it can do both, E-REV is a good example. An electric vehicle that drives an electric vehicle, but has a gas tank and a combustion engine, but it's an industrial engine— super efficient. So you can go 700 miles on a tank of gas and 90% of your trips are all electric, it doesn't have a transmission, it doesn't have a driveline, it's much lighter than a PHEV or a hybrid, and it works great. I think what we found is that— until the infrastructure catches up, until we're used to charging on the road, companies like Ford have to give customers a choice.”

@elonmusk Please can you fix Grok in my Tesla? I’m British and speak only English. I ask grok a question during my European road trip and she replies in French when in France, Spanish in Spain and Portuguese in Portugal. It’s driving me nuts!

Does this include Tesla superchargers in the mix? Which approximately halfway through my Model Y tour of France Spain and Portugal is shown to be massively cheaper than third party chargers. Not to mention, Tesla chargers have been 100% reliable , whereas third party rapid chargers have only worked <50% of the time.

Leaderboard: Which countries in Europe have the cheapest EV fast charging? It took me months, but I managed to analyze prices of thousands of charging networks across 29 European countries. See the full report I made with & for Eleport: eleport.com/price-report

I hate manual cars. Just watched a woman in a manual fiat panda struggling to hold her car on an up ramp in a multi storey car park. Expected her to roll back into me. Alternating revving her engine letting out the clutch and playing with the handbrake. Not suitable for everyday use.

Drivers have debated automatic transmissions for years. Today, in the United States, only enthusiasts drive manual transmissions, while they remain more common in Europe. With the rise of compelling EVs on themarket, the debate continues. But now it is not manual versus automatic transmission, but whether you need a transmission at all. Do you think this “dumbs down” driving, or is it irrelevant with the advent of self-driving systems like Tesla’s Full Self Driving? I’m in the latter camp, although I still love banging through gears.

@DavidMa97832049 @dansemperepico Trust me. He’s right. Something that a non Tesla owner would never think about. Get a Tesla and those little things become absolutely essential. I hate driving anything other than a Tesla. And I drive a lot of non Teslas far too regularly for work.

I hate driving my BMW since I got my Tesla. It's just such a good hassle-free daily driver car. I get angry that when I park my BMW I have to put it in park, put the handbrake on, turn the engine off, open the door, close the door, and lock the car all myself. Plus I have a ginormous key to carry around. With Tesla I can just unbuckle my seatbelt and open the door and it does everything else automatically as I walk away (yes even shutting the door by itself). I sat at BMW for 1.5 hours today while they changed my windscreen wipers, meanwhile Tesla is coming to do mobile service at my house this week to change one of the trunk motors. Pretty sure Tesla has ruined all other cars for me unless I get something really special like a porsche/lambo/ferrari/aston one day.

Currently on a road trip in southern Europe , France Spain and Portugal. Guernsey - St Malo - Lisbon - Faro in my 2022 Model Y Standard RWD. Three countries and 1500 miles in. Supercharging all the way. I honestly don’t know how you could do it with such ease in any other car. Supercharging a Tesla is seamless and just works, every time.

Another great example of non-Tesla EV charging. This is the EV Smart Building. Every parking spot has EV chargers. None of them work.

@G09534 @stevenmarkryan Spacex will need huge amounts of inward investment to create moon bases and space based AI data centres.

@stevenmarkryan 20never! why???? It makes no sense to go trough Tesla experience especialy when you don't need money from other sources

When will SpaceX IPO? Leave your exact guess (date) below.

Meanwhile, my Tesla costs just $2.27 (USD) to charge from empty to full at home.

@VictoriaZeev @SawyerMerritt It’s too popular. Long wait times. Put the price up to bring the wait times down. As it scales, the price will drop again.

@SawyerMerritt So the ‘cheap robotaxi future’ lasted about five minutes before the prices started going up.

NEWS: Tesla has raised the base cost of its Robotaxi rides in Austin to $3.25 (from $1). The cost per mile on top of that is still $1. So a 5 mile long ride would now cost $8.25

@Teslarati Just driven from northern France to Lisbon. 1200 miles. 2022 Model Y SR. IMO charging is too fast already.

I didn’t think this would stimulate as much conversation as it did. Most people are okay with waiting 10-15 minutes for 10-20% charge because it gives them a chance to grab food, use the bathroom, etc. Does Supercharging need to be as fast as pumping gas?

@revolut has most features turned off for Guernsey, @Monzo and @Starling are not available. That leaves us with the incumbent legacy banks which are absolutely useless when it comes to good modern app features like spending from pots/pockets, disposable virtual cards etc. @HSBC and @NatWest etc, are like being back in 2007.

Hey TeslaDonkey, X Money is in internal beta now (external beta expected March-April 2026, US-first). Global rollout is the plan post-testing, starting with UK/Canada later this year per reports, then broader EU/elsewhere. No Guernsey-specific timeline announced, but given the island's finance hub status, strong regs, and thin local fintech options, solid chance it'll land there by late 2026/early 2027 once approvals clear. Watch for updates!

Just curious… when 𝕏 Money goes live, how much of your finances do you plan on moving here? 1️⃣ Just testing it out ($0-$1K) 2️⃣ Some of my money ($1K-$10K) 3️⃣ A large portion ($10K-$100K) 4️⃣ Most or all of my finances