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Doug Kimbrough
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Doug Kimbrough
@DougKimbrough
Married, Father of 7, love Jesus, TeslaM3 owner. Led AMD Ryzen & now leading Epyc teams. Former US Army Captain
Austin, TX Katılım Ekim 2017
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Total insanity from the recent Dahn lab paper. Batteries that last 27,000 cycles, equivalent to 7.5M miles!!!
Enough to go to the moon and back 15 times.
In the future, literally everything in your car will break before your battery, including you. You'll pass down your battery to your kids and grandkids and great grandkids.
And most surprisingly, these are NMC cells!
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People haven't wrapped their heads around how much the politics of renewables have been altered by the fact that Texas is kicking everyone's ass in building solar, wind, and batteries. Greg Abbot sounds woke when he talks energy now. That's a preview of what's coming nationally.
Gaurab Chakrabarti@Gaurab
Reminder that Texas (owner of the Permian basin) is quietly running on 70% renewable energy.
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Texas is the clean energy capital of the United States. And a chunk of that is because of their easy permitting, relatively ample transmission, and highly deregulated electricity market. Abundance thinking in energy works.
Daniel Gross@grossdm
Pretty astonishing. In Texas, between 10:00 am and 4:00 p.m., 80-90% of electricity comes from carbon free sources. And storage is already a significant contributor in the early morning and evening
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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.”
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California expanded its fleet by 29%, to 15.2 GW.
Texas grew by 69%, to over 14 GW.
Arizona saw "blistering growth" more than doubling its utility-scale battery capacity to 4.7 GW at end of 2025.
Battery revolution is just starting in USA & globally.
canarymedia.com/articles/batte…
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This is how far Tesla has come after 18 years. 2008 Tesla Roadster vs 2026 Tesla Model 3 Performance:
2008 Roadster:
• $98,000 base price ($148K in 2026)
• 0-60 mph in 3.9s
• 245 miles of range
• 248 hp
• 125 mph top speed
• 16.8 kW AC charging (No DC)
• Cruise Control
• 16” front wheels 17” rear wheels
2026 Model Performance:
• $54,990
• 0-60 mph in 2.9s
• 309 miles of range
• 510 hp
• 163 mph top speed
• 250 kW DC Charging
• Self-Driving
• 20" Forged Staggered Wheels
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Denmark is essentially done. Company cars lag a bit, but the important part of the transition is over now.
LeRaffl@leRaffl
🇩🇰 Denmark (Private) - February 26 - BEV Trajectory 93.8% BEV 0.7% PHEV 5.5% ICE Trailing 12 months are: 87.7% BEV 2.4% PHEV 9.9% ICE Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Galler…
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@TRAVELLIXIR @SawyerMerritt Definitely China first. They exceeded 25% BEV new car sales & 50% hybrid sales in 2025, and are on track to have new car sales be 80% BEV by 2030.
Europe is 2nd. US is lagging way behind with only 9% BEV sales in 2025.
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Growing global adoption of electric vehicles helped avoid the consumption of 2.3 million barrels of oil per day last year. By 2030, avoided daily consumption could more than double to 5.25 million barrels.
“Electric vehicles are increasingly cost-competitive with gasoline cars. Oil volatility means EVs are a common-sense choice for countries wishing to insulate themselves from future shocks.” Daan Walter, analyst at Ember.
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BREAKING: Looks like we now have a new record of FOUR Unsupervised RoboTaxis running in Austin at the same time, seen on the same day Today! Is it FINALLY happening?!! 🙏🏽🤖🚕🚀 $tsla
Ramy@TeslaXplored
FINALLY some progress! A total of THREE unsupervised Tesla @RoboTaxi cars running in Austin at the moment. All seen today! 🤖🚕🚀. Let’s goooo! Let’s keep up the pace and bump those numbers up. $tsla
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Tesla is selling so many cars in South Korea now that the customization market is growing along with Tesla sales in Korea! 🇰🇷
Did you know Tesla is the best-selling vehicle in South Korea today—the home of Hyundai and Kia? Tesla sales in Korea are on track to quadruple this year.
$TSLA @elonmusk
Source: BPD on YouTube
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Opinion in USA Today:
"If fighting climate change is your thing, Elon Musk is your friend ‒ no matter what you think of his politics or personal life; The whole “frak the 1%” tempest is a distraction used to manipulate the masses by politicians who want their votes and activists who want their money.
What really matters is what the rich contribute to society through their work, just like the rest of us. And Musk has given us electric vehicles that are among the world’s best, space exploration that is pushing the boundaries of where we can go and how we’ll get there, satellite internet that defies dictators and empowers the impoverished, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence that may deliver wonders that transform how we live and work. Not bad for a troll.
I can’t help but admire the companies he’s launched and the innovations he’s driven. If you have never had the privilege of watching a SpaceX rocket take off and land at Cape Canaveral, then get yourself to Florida. It’s an amazing sight.
Another of Musk’s wonders, Starlink, delivers high-speed internet access around the globe, including in places where rampant poverty or government oppression used to make online connections difficult.
And Tesla, despite liberals’ dirty looks, is still the most successful electric carmaker in the nation with the world’s largest economy. The progressive boycott of Tesla always seemed shortsighted to me for that reason."
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Samsung confirming volume production of Tesla chips at its Texas factory in the second half of next year is a bigger deal than the headline suggests.
Tesla has been quietly building domestic chip supply for its autonomous and robotics ambitions. Getting Samsung's Texas fab into volume production means fewer geopolitical risks, shorter lead times, and more control over the supply chain right as Optimus and Robotaxi start to scale.
The people paying attention to this kind of infrastructure news are usually the ones who aren't surprised later. $TSLA
Herbert Ong@herbertong
🚨 NEWS: Samsung says it expects to begin volume production of Tesla chips at its Texas factory in the second half of next year. $TSLA reuters.com/business/autos…
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Another signal: there are some European markets where electric trucks are taking off *right now*, almost keeping up with China:
Netherlands at 18,2% of all truck sales in 2025
Norway 17.3%
Denmark 16.9%
Sweden 16.1%
European average 4.7%, per T&E analysis.
Jaan of the EVwire.com ⚡@TheEVuniverse
Something nobody around you sees coming yet, but is actually happening: electric trucks at scale
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NEWS: Tesla spotted Robotaxi service testing in Dallas, Texas.
All Model Ys spotted in the area have rear camera washers, which is something only the Model Y Robotaxi vehicles in Austin have had. They also have Texas plates. One was spotted simulating a pickup/dropoff.
Tesla said on its Q4 earnings call that Dallas was one of the 7 planned metro areas that would see robotaxi coverage in the first half of 2026.
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$TSLA
NEWS: Tesla has signed a $4.3 billion contract to receive LFP batteries for ESS at its LG Energy Solutions plant in Michigan.
(This contract was signed in July last year, but the U.S. internal affairs officially confirmed it this time.)
The contract will begin to be supplied in 2027 and the cells will be mounted on Tesla Megapack, which will be produced in Houston, Texas.
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NEWS: Samsung is preparing to build a second chip factory at its semiconductor cluster in Taylor, Texas.
The first fab (below) is Samsung's new $25 billion chip fabrication facility that will help produce @Tesla's future AI6 (HW6) chip.
Samsung wants to expand and build a second chip fab as major U.S. tech companies line up to place their orders amid strained capacity at Taiwanese rival TSMC.
The facility is a 40 minute drive from Tesla's Giga Texas factory. Last year, Tesla signed a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to produce these AI6 chips, but Elon Musk says that number is "just the bare minimum. Actual output is likely to be several times higher."
Various Tesla products such as their cars and their Optimus robot will use this AI6 chip. The first Samsung fab facility in Taylor is expected to be operational in 2026.
(drone footage is from Nov 2025 via Airwave Dynamics)
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Here is the factory in Michigan that LG Energy Solution will convert/retool to manufacture LFP cells for Tesla’s new Megapack 3, which will be built in Houston.
Instead of relying on cells from China, Tesla will use American-made cells. Smart.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
BREAKING: The U.S. Government has officially announced that @Tesla and LG Energy have signed an agreement to build a $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic battery cell manufacturing factory in Lansing, Michigan, with a 2027 start of production. "American-made cells will power Tesla's Megapack 3 energy storage systems produced in Houston, creating a robust domestic battery supply chain," the U.S. Department of the Interior said in a statement. Here's everything you need to know about Tesla's new Megablock, the latest in the company's industrial storage product lineup, which includes the new Megapack version 3: Megablock: • 23% faster to install with up to 40% lower construction costs • Plug and play platform (hardware, software and services) delivered as one all from Tesla. It's a pre-engineered medium-voltage block that integrates next-gen Megapack 3 • Eliminated above ground cabling between the transformer and the megapacks using new flexible busbar assembly • 91% MV round trip efficiency • 20 MWh of usable AC energy • Operates in temps of -40°C (-40°F) to 60°C (140°F) • 248 MWh per acre • 25-year life & >10,000 cycles • With Megablock, Tesla is targeting to commission 1GWh in 20 business days, equivalent to bringing power to 400,000 homes in less than month Megapack 3: • Will be manufactured in Tesla's upcoming Houston Megafactory starting in late 2026. 50 GWh annual manufacturing capacity when fully ramped. • 5 MWh of usable AC energy • Weight: 86,000 lbs • 28 foot long enclosure that can be shipped globally • Optimized for up to 8-hour applications • New drastically simplified thermal bay. Uses Model Y heat pump, but on steroids. 78% fewer connections, which minimizes failure points • Larger battery module and larger battery cell • 2.8 liter battery cell, co-engineered with Tesla's cell team • LFP battery • Operates in -40°C to 60° • Went from 24 cable connections in Megapack version 2XL, down to 3 simple busbar connections • 75% of the mass of Megapack 3 is battery cells. • A single module in it weighs as much as a Cybertruck • Tesla has enabled easier front access service, so there are no roof penetrations • Drastically simplified bussing system
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Doug Kimbrough retweetledi
BREAKING: The U.S. Government has officially announced that @Tesla and LG Energy have signed an agreement to build a $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic battery cell manufacturing factory in Lansing, Michigan, with a 2027 start of production.
"American-made cells will power Tesla's Megapack 3 energy storage systems produced in Houston, creating a robust domestic battery supply chain," the U.S. Department of the Interior said in a statement.
Here's everything you need to know about Tesla's new Megablock, the latest in the company's industrial storage product lineup, which includes the new Megapack version 3:
Megablock:
• 23% faster to install with up to 40% lower construction costs
• Plug and play platform (hardware, software and services) delivered as one all from Tesla. It's a pre-engineered medium-voltage block that integrates next-gen Megapack 3
• Eliminated above ground cabling between the transformer and the megapacks using new flexible busbar assembly
• 91% MV round trip efficiency
• 20 MWh of usable AC energy
• Operates in temps of -40°C (-40°F) to 60°C (140°F)
• 248 MWh per acre
• 25-year life & >10,000 cycles
• With Megablock, Tesla is targeting to commission 1GWh in 20 business days, equivalent to bringing power to 400,000 homes in less than month
Megapack 3:
• Will be manufactured in Tesla's upcoming Houston Megafactory starting in late 2026. 50 GWh annual manufacturing capacity when fully ramped.
• 5 MWh of usable AC energy
• Weight: 86,000 lbs
• 28 foot long enclosure that can be shipped globally
• Optimized for up to 8-hour applications
• New drastically simplified thermal bay. Uses Model Y heat pump, but on steroids. 78% fewer connections, which minimizes failure points
• Larger battery module and larger battery cell
• 2.8 liter battery cell, co-engineered with Tesla's cell team
• LFP battery
• Operates in -40°C to 60°
• Went from 24 cable connections in Megapack version 2XL, down to 3 simple busbar connections
• 75% of the mass of Megapack 3 is battery cells.
• A single module in it weighs as much as a Cybertruck
• Tesla has enabled easier front access service, so there are no roof penetrations
• Drastically simplified bussing system
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Doug Kimbrough retweetledi
New Roadster unveil hopefully next month.
It will be a banger next-level.
Jon Erlichman@JonErlichman
On this day in 2008: production starts for Tesla’s first vehicle, the Roadster.
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