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@TheEVuniverse @elonmusk I find it incredibly funny that actor became an actual billionaire from investing in AI. Makes me laugh every time I see him thinking about him acting like the character in real life.

hey @elonmusk make sure my new Tesla family hauler has doors that go like this

They did a presentation with Pepsi at one point that had a bunch of interesting finds. One was that they took it over the Donner Pass and once they reached the other side they had almost a net zero charge state because of regenerative breaking. I think they also said at the break check station, their breaks were cool enough to touch because regenerative breaking had done all the work, not the actual breaks. Was pretty interesting.

@PTrubey @SawyerMerritt I TRIED😂 apparently i triggered the X trolls though in doing so🤷‍♂️

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

@TheEVuniverse Congrats Jaan! That is a big deal!

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.

@TheEVuniverse Didn’t they say at one point that it would be wireless only? That always seemed a mistake to me. Wireless is nice and all, but that would mean walking away from the existing charging network and starting to build a new one. Seems a lot of work for not much gain.

Implies charge port will be there in production vehicle?

@TheEVuniverse @SawyerMerritt Not a lot of nice things to say about Brendan Carr, but boy it’s hard to argue with this statement. Especially considering Amazon has spent years filing against SpaceX trying to throw regulatory barriers in their way while doing very little to get Amazon’s own network built.

@SawyerMerritt holy crap this is based

The head of the FCC responds to Amazon’s petition against SpaceX’s proposed 1 million AI satellite constellation 🔥🔥

I pay about $90 but it was something like $300 a month if I only insured just the car through State Farm. When I asked about putting it on my insurance they said if that’s all you have the rates are nuts, but if you have a multi-car discount and homeowners on the same plan, that’s what got me down to the $90 range for each my 23 Model 3 and 23 Model Y. I’m about 20 years younger than your dad and in a different state, so those things could alter the price some, but mostly it’s discounts for having insurance on multiple things. The State Farm agent I talked to said they encourage people wanting to insure only a single Tesla to add on some additional insurance because it almost always saves significant amounts of money, even though you’re technically paying for additional insurance.

Why is insuring a Tesla so expensive compared to ICE vehicles despite Tesla being one of the safest cars? @elonmusk @Tesla @SawyerMerritt @wholemars

@Mr_LooseyGoosey @SawyerMerritt @kishengiggs1 @elonmusk @Tesla @wholemars Yeah, I have a 2023 model 3 and Y through State Farm also in Wisconsin and that’s about what I pay for both. I’m about 10 years older, so that might make a bit of difference, but mainly it’s discounts for multiple cars, homeowners etc all being through State Farm.

@SawyerMerritt @kishengiggs1 @elonmusk @Tesla @wholemars How in the hell!? I'm 27 with no accident history, no traffic citations in the last 7 years, and been driving since 16. 2026 Tesla Model Y with State Farm is $180/mo for me in Wisconsin..

That’s disingenuous. The video shows the Vegas Loop, which is a multi-year project for 68 miles of tunnels and 104 stations involving loads of property owners. Not reasonable to expect this to be done, but it is operating with the public. The Nashville tunnel shown literally just started. Not reasonable to expect it to be done yet. The Texas video shows a tunnel being dug for Tesla, for whom they’ve already completed multiple projects, including somewhat famously, the exit tunnel under a highway for cybertrucks. Meanwhile the average US tunneling project for other companies is 90 months. They do about 40 feet a day, while the boring company targets about 750.

To my knowledge, not one tunneling project has ever been completed. Example, LAS to LAX Hyperloop. They started tunneling in 2017. Ya think they could have tunneled to China by now. Perhaps they did. So Billions spent, and no public project has been completed years later. What's really going on? Fraud? Deep Underground Military Bases?

The Boring Company is officially tunneling in 3 states simultaneously today: Nevada, Texas, and Tennessee and doing it for ~99% less compared to traditional tunneling → Nevada: Scaling the massive Vegas EV Loop → Tennessee: Nashville Music City Loop just broke ground → Texas: Prufrock manufacturing & Giga Texas tunnels The Boring Company just pulls up a Prufrock and starts digging

@Electo_Scope @XFreeze They’ve said a mile a week is their target at a cost of $10M per mile. So, one kilometer would take about 4 days, 8 hours.

@XFreeze So how long does it take to tunnel for one kilometer and at what cost?

@TheEVuniverse This is the second country to hit this mark, right? Denmark and Norway?

Signal: EV fleet just overtook Diesel fleet on Danish roads. Not sales. All cars on the road. The EV transition pace in Denmark has been crazy: 2025 ended with 68.5% BEV market share. Once the country got going, the transition is happening faster than it did in Norway.

@TheEVuniverse Seems like it would depend on who exactly we’re talking about. Tesla will beat that, easily. Waymo using $50,000+ cars that require $100,000 in customizations might take longer, so if that’s an industry average, ‘36-39 might be more reasonable.

Goldman Sachs estimates the $/mile cost of using robotaxis will become cheaper than your own car by 2036 or 2039, depending on how much you drive. Jaan from EVwire estimates this will happen in 2029.

@Truelovefordogs @glennbeck I agree with voter ID laws, but the problem with the SAVE act is that an ID isn’t good enough unless you have an enhanced ID which is only issued in 5 of 50 states.

By passing this one act, the GOP will save the republic AND rescue the GOP. If they fail, we all fail. 80% off all Americans want this - you need ID for everything except voting. There is only one reason not to pass this and we all know what it is. GOP save the republic, save the Republican Party from itself. PASS THE SAVE ACT.

@TheEVuniverse @JoshWest247 @tnertz That seems like a lot going on under the hood.

Here are two sides of Cybercab you haven't seen so far. Left: @JoshWest247 found Cybercab Supercharging Right: peek under the hood by Trent @tnertz

@ItsThatNova @DMC_Ryan Playground is clearly great at what they do, but they’re a tiny piece of Xbox.

@DMC_Ryan I feel like the moment Playground Games gets folded or enough talent splinter off, it'll be the final blow to whatever Xbox is. FH6 looks fantastic and it looks like they're going to miraculously pull off a Fable game. Probably my favorite devs atm. Just phenomenal talent.

And we're off the air! What did you think of this year's Xbox Developer Direct? Grade it below:

@G_Obertron @DestinLegarie Well, while Microsoft is American, the developer, Playground Games, is in Leamington Spa, England if that makes you feel better.

@DestinLegarie A. Which is a shame as I’m boycotting all things American.

Overall what would you rate the Xbox Developer Direct 2026?

@RealDoctorMike I see you use a secret lab chair. I know reviews aren’t your thing, but I have huge back problems and office chairs are wildly expensive. I went to replace my 20 yr old office chair that was $16, and I found chairs that were thousands. Gaming chairs seem to be a better option and secret lab stood out for quality vs price. I’d like to know why you use one.

@GApeaches404 @ModdedQuad Talking ethics, does that family member have a required responsibility to continue to care for the person who refuses it? I’m not talking the law, just ethics. For me, it’s pretty basic, family is family. But that isn’t universal.

@ModdedQuad BCI connection over someone's refusal (eg forced implantation w consent from a family member) Once spinal cord control is bridged: Control of someone *else's* body

When BCIs become common one day, what should never be allowed no matter how advanced the tech gets? Where do you draw the line?

Would be really interesting to see travel patterns and how that compares to EV growth in different areas. If I had to guess, the US is an outlier in our desire to be able to travel 1000 miles in a car. I’m guessing that travel patterns in most of the “rest of the world” countries are much different, and so away from home charging infrastructure is a lot less important as would be fast chargers and even home dedicated chargers (meaning a hardwired charger). For anyone averaging under 50 or so miles a day, a charger that plugs into a regular wall outlet is fine. I bet that’s normal in a lot of these places. If you don’t often leave your city, the 300 mile range most EVs have is way more than most people need.

@JonnyCapitalist and that as well, you can literally produce your energy at home "gas is easy and portable" lol

"90% of countries won’t establish networks to support electric cars" sir, the "Rest of World" countries are THE highest-growing EV markets. Colombia 1st in growth globally, Indonesia 2nd. Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, El Salvador in top 10. They are leapfrogging to the EV future.

If even half the industrial restoring happens that is predicted US energy supply is going to have to grow significantly anyway, and that’s before data center demand is taken into consideration. The electrical grid is often brought up as a bit of a boogie man, but it seems to me that our grid has been stagnant for years and we’ve under invested due to a lack of growth. The solution then seems to be growth, and EVs can help with that, but I don’t see them being the biggest growth driver. To me the argument that the grid can’t grow fast enough when we’ve had very little growth for years due to lack of demand is like telling Westinghouse and Edison to buy candle stocks because the investment required to electrify America is too great. You’re right though that we will keep pumping oil and a lot of it, but so what? Sell it to the rest of the world. We already do and I see no reason that can’t continue. I’d also add that fracking is what makes us such a natural gas powerhouse which currently powers a good chunk of our electricity production and looks to continue to do so for a long time to come.

What about the us energy industry indicates we are going to stop fracking, pumping, and processing oil for vehicle and plane fuel anytime soon? Why would we use comparatively scarce grid electricity to power a new electric vehicle vs an autonomous robot or data center? Just keeping up with grid needs wothout ev’s will be a tremendous task. Great power conflict unlikely to resolve before 2035-40 The current trend is nowhere near 98% ev Every tailwind turned headwind this year.

(PREDICTION FOR THE US MARKET) I think hybrids will dominate for the next 25 years over pure ev’s and pure combustion Market composition 2050: 25% pure ev, 55 hybrid, 20 pure combustion. This ^ is for human/humanoid robot driven cars The infrastructure and subsidies needed to support pure ev’s are leaving. Autonomous vehicles: 99% PURE EV

@BARRIIICADE @majornelson You have to bid for work in the union?!

@majornelson I left the union years ago. Got sick of paying to get gigs that turned out to go belly-up. Bidding for work should be illegal.

In other news, I want to join SAG-AFTRA to do some voice over work in games. Let me know if you you need any voice work (Union) so I can get my card 🎙️