Melissa

Salt and Waves Salon 💇‍♀️ about to Hook me up with some baby lights and a trim on my day off.

🇺🇸 Tesla quietly filed a patent that could cut battery production costs by nearly half. The breakthrough is a new way to make battery cathodes without toxic liquid solvents, using a microscopic "spider web" structure that binds the materials together instead. It also triples manufacturing speed and could shrink the physical footprint of battery factories by up to 50%. It's not a lab experiment either. Gigafactory Texas is already mass-producing these cells for select Model Y vehicles, with Cybertruck, Cybercab, and Semi rollout expected through 2026 and 2027. Battery cost is the last big barrier to affordable EVs. Tesla just moved the needle. Source: Not a Tesla App

Sometimes I get tempted to get the Cybertruck, but it won’t fit in my garage right now, so I’ll just stick with my lovely 2026 Model 3 Premium until I move to a bigger house.

Raptor 3 just officially flew for the first time on Starship Flight 12 and it’s an absolute masterpiece of engineering When SpaceX first revealed it, many people in aerospace really thought it was an incomplete render. They kept asking where the rest of the engine was Turns out… that was the full engine SpaceX eliminated so many external pipes, brackets, sensors, and components that it barely looked real It became the perfect embodiment of Elon Musk’s engineering philosophy: “The best part is no part” Raptor 3 comes with: • more thrust • higher efficiency • radical simplification • improved reliability • dramatically lower manufacturing complexity This was not just an upgrade. It was a complete rethinking of what a rocket engine can be Raptor 3 has officially raised the bar for the entire aerospace industry

Liftoff of Starship on its twelfth flight test

Best Tesla A.S.S. ever....pouring rain in Victoria Texas... but no problemo to load luggage and self in complete dryness. 😀