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Looks like the rate actually dropped as it took eight months to install 100,000 Powerwalls between June 2023 and February 2024. It's going to make it awfully hard to reach our prediction of a million by this June. Yeah, I don't think that's going to be happening. And don't get me wrong, 600,000 Powerwalls is an awesome achievement. That's about 8.1 gigawatt hours of storage. My guess as to why Powerwall sales haven't hit our 1 million prediction is because Tesla is prioritizing batteries for vehicles and megapacks over home Powerwalls. Yeah, I think you're right. What do you think? Comment down below. Alright, so we get an update on Optimus. Elon said Optimus strolling around the lab. And the first video we posted was really grainy and Homar's catalog says, "Oh cool, the same camera they used to get UFO footage?" And at first I thought Elon was specifically uploading low-res footage to hide certain details from the competition. But then it turns out that after a few hours the resolution of the video improved. So I think it was just like a server issue on X. Now you mentioned competition? Yeah, Elon talked about this on the last Tesla earnings call if you remember. He was asked when the next AI Optimus day would be held. And he said that they have to be really careful now because so many companies actually look at what Tesla is doing like frame by frame. So many Chinese companies have been literally copying what Tesla is doing. Check out this. This is Kepler's humanoid robot being shown off at CES a month ago. Look familiar? And this is Xiaomi's Cyber 1 robot. Wow, they didn't even hide it. The same color scheme. And don't forget about YubiTech's humanoid robot. Yeah, so I think it's safe to say that Elon is trying to find a balance between protecting their IP and attracting talent. Oh, so you think this is a recruiting video? Yeah, I mean just look at the Tesla Optimus X account. It's got links to jobs right in the header. I haven't seen that before. So we're going to deep dive on talent this week on disruptive investing. So make sure to check out our disruptive investing channel for tons of great content. But back to Optimus, we see a nice smooth, you know, toe off. It's very human-like movement where the toe kind of springs the foot off of the ground. Allowing the robot to walk faster, unlike many other robots, Boston Dynamics that just have stumps instead of hands and feet and walk very flat-footed. Yeah, and I've been looking at this footage over and over of Optimus. And it looks to me like there's a little bit of bend to the foot. But maybe that's just my eye wanting to see a bend. I didn't see any bend. You think it's still flat? I think that it's still, I mean, even if it doesn't bend, there's going to be some push-off. You know, some push-off. I just think that the landing of the foot coming down is really soft. So in this clip, Optimus is walking at about half the stride length, about 12 inches and half the speed around 1.1 miles an hour as fast as a human. So a human could walk at like 2.2 miles an hour and they'd take a slightly longer stride. Exactly. Yeah, as Milon Kovac says in this post, and he's one of the engineers on the team, this is our fastest gate ever at 0.6 meters per second, 30% faster speed boost since our last video in December. We've improved our vestibular system, our foot trajectory, and our ground contact logic. We've upgraded our motion planner and made cuts to the loop latency across the bot. Optimus is more stable and more confident overall, even during turns. We also added a slight torso and arm sway. If these challenges speak to you, join us and our amazing controls team. See? They're recruiting. And just in case you ever feel bad about yourself, just walk across the room at a decent speed. Well, yeah. And then you can say, "Oh, I've just improved my vestibular system and my foot trajectory planning." It's amazing what your brain can do without even thinking about it when you're walking around. Yeah. And can you make out those little x's on the floor? Is Optimus walking a path through those x's autonomously, do you think? Most likely. I mean, what we do know is that there is no tether and that Optimus is walking very confidently and smoothly. And I would say quickly. Maybe for California. Optimus's arm swing is very human-like, as they mentioned, and his stride is very human-like. And what most people forget about humans walking is that we are constantly falling and catching ourselves in an endless loop. And that's why it's so hard to learn how to walk because you're almost having to learn how to fall. Optimus is demonstrating a stride where it's always doing one balance step, kind of like an older person or when you're unsure of yourself, you don't walk the same, right? You're now just always making sure you're balanced. And that means you have to slow down. And I wonder when Optimus will kind of get to that human falling stride. We're going to talk a little bit more about this on some of our other videos this week on our disruptive investing channel, which is free, and then our Patreon and investor club bonus stories on which you can go check out over on Patreon. So remember last week when we reported on this post by Lars Moravi, Tesla's VP of vehicle engineering saying that the new Model 3 has a new unique shock absorbing tech called frequency selective damping. And he posted this cool infographic of the human body's resonant frequencies. Well, is it Kane or is that Kanye West? No, that's Kane. What else can you tell us about the Model 3? I didn't see this awesome tech slash info anywhere else. Well, Lars answered off the top of my head two mics for phone calls now, no more echoing on the phone with your family. That's cool. Was there anything else learned on that post thread? Yes. So Drew Baglino, Tesla's VP of powertrain and energy engineering answered this question from Joseph Bella eight days later. I guess Drew doesn't tweet as often as his boss. Joseph said, are you guys doing anything to reduce the vampire drain when century mode is active? And Drew said agreed century mode power consumption needs improvement. The team is working to reduce by roughly 40% in a Q2 software update. So for the uninitiated century mode is a fantastic feature allowing Tesla's to record potentially sketchy things going on around their vehicle. Which by the way, we're going to see on Cybertruck around up this week. But because the computers have to be on and watching it all times, it does use a fair amount of energy. And so some owners shut off the feature or don't use it all the time to save energy. And that means that you might miss an important event or worse. Your car could get damaged without any recording of it. So this work by the Tesla team to reduce the power consumption by about 40% could make the difference between owners using century mode or not turning it on at all. What do you think? Would you use century mode more if it used less power? We asked our patrons this week on our Patreon poll so we'll see what they say. Alright everybody, this could very well be our last time working together Bob on who's adding Nax this week. Is this something I said Bob? You know I only ate that sandwich in the fridge because it wasn't labeled. No Bob, it isn't anything you've done wrong. It's just that pretty much there isn't anyone left to add to Nax. Tesla's North American charging standard to the TVs. But I thought that Stellantis, which owns Jeep, Fiat, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Alfa Romeo and Maserati had still not added Nax Bob. Well guess what Bob? Stellantis has just added Nax. Guess they held out as long as they could. Or maybe this is as fast as they could go Bob. Either way Bob, Stellantis has just adopted Nax. So this is now what the playing field looks like. Thank you to Richard Smith 7 for this great infographic. So I see that just about every automaker you can think of Bob has adopted Tesla's charging standard in North America. And so I guess this is farewell. This may be a sad moment for us Bob, but I think it's a great time for EVs in North America because now we will start to see a common charging infrastructure across the US, Canada and Mexico. In a few years, just about every new EV will have one plug in the slim, sleek Tesla Nax plug style. And hopefully every EV will have at least 250 kilowatts charging speed. Oh, get too ahead of yourself there Bob. Now what about the pink companies on this chart Bob? Let's see, Vin Fast, Faraday Future, Canoe and Delorean? They'll probably come around Bob. And what about the companies in White? Aston Martin, McLaren and Ferrari? Well they don't have any EVs Bob, so who cares? So for who's adding Nax this week, this is Bob signing off. And I'm Bob signing off. See you at the charging station folks. Can't believe this is it Bob. I know. We had such a long run. Are we gonna get to go fishing together? I mean it wasn't the sandwich thing, was it? No, no. Are you sure? No. I wouldn't eat the sandwich if I'd know it was your sandwich Bob. It was a good sandwich. It was a good sandwich. Hey and if you like the kind of thing we're doing here on the show, please hit the like button and help share it with more people around the world. And speaking of Nax, it looks like Tesla was filming a Nax commercial or marketing video at the 62 stall Santa Monica City supercharger in California last Thursday. Dr. Hamadi posted, Tesla shooting a commercial video at the big 62 stall Santa Monica supercharger to show how you can charge any EV there soon. They're filming Cybertruck, Hummer EV, Ford Mustang Machis, Mercedes EV, others very cool Elon. So what do you think? Is this a good sign that Ford EVs will be able to charge soon at Tesla superchargers? Ford did sign on first to the Nax standard in May of 2023. Ford says that they will start installing the Nax port onto their EVs starting next year. And we're going to be talking more about that in into the future. All right. So after the Cybertruck roundup, this Cybertruck roundup. So Cybertruck has not yet received its official EPA range test, but we have all probably seen by now a few Cybertruck range tests online. We've been reporting on them here during Cybertruck roundup. Now we get a new Cybertruck range test from Edmonds. They tested a dual motor, all-wheel drive Cybertruck in both highway and city driving with favorable weather on the tires that ship with the Cybertruck and without the aero covers. According to Tesla, this should give a range of 318 miles. Important to note that the ship tires are an off-road tire. With all season tires, Tesla says the Cybertruck should expect to get 340 miles of range. Okay. So back to Edmonds range test. Edmonds got 334 miles of range during the test, beating Tesla's estimate by 16 miles. Well, that's great to see that they're actually getting a little bit better than what you expect to get. And speaking of Cybertruck's tires and aero covers, Nick posted this Cybertruck's base wheel caps. They will come with Pirelli Scorpion ATR all seasons instead of the good year ATs. So remember, as we reported earlier this month, Tesla stopped shipping Cybertruck with the original aero wheel caps because apparently they were rubbing against the tire sidewall and could fall off because of excessive wear. So what do you think of the new tires in the aero wheel caps? A lot of talk online that people are not liking them. But keep in mind, this is only kind of the base wheel cap, not the premium wheels with the all-terrain tires. Okay. I guess I wasn't aware of that. Like, because we ordered our truck and I do not remember what we got. So now I'm like, worried, because I mean, look, the wheel caps look fine. They do not look as cool as the original. No, they look a little chintzy. Right. Now I know that right now, they're not selling those wheel covers because I don't know where or whatever. I would still do it even if I got a flat tire because that's the coolest. That's so cool looking. But I don't know. What do you guys think? So for the first time, trusty drone pilot Joe Tegmeyer spotted over 100 cyber trucks at Giga Texas last Wednesday. Now I have to check our app again to see if we are getting our cyber truck right. Oh, I'm so excited. I check every day and then it's not they haven't started delivery in our state yet. So why? I mean, do it. I think it's that way. If there's a problem, the the techs are trained in Texas in California, or at least they're going to like bring them back to Giga Texas for fixing. I don't. I know it's not yet. We don't have it yet. But look, I urge you to follow Joe on X and YouTube for great info on Giga Texas because just two days later on Friday, Joe spotted over 140 cyber trucks at Giga Texas. Wow. So what do you think? Does what we're seeing bode well for Tesla, making their goal of hitting a run rate of 250,000 by the middle of next year? I'm kind of hopeful. And remember a couple weeks ago, we talked about Dave Sparks putting heavy duty snow tracks on his cyber truck. Right. We saw a photo, but we were waiting for his video to come out on his YouTube channel. Well, he posted on X, I was trying to hold off posting any videos of the cyber tracks until we had the full YouTube video ready to go. But I'm impatient and really just want to share it with you right now. So here you go. Enjoy. And he wanted to say huge thanks to the folks at Tesla for being so cool and supportive of this project. They've helped us with many tech questions and other random stuff that has really boosted my overall opinion of the company. Bottom line, they appreciate cool stuff just like we do. And they earn my support and respect. And by the way, he broke his suspension because yeah, you shouldn't be putting stuff this heavy on to replace your wheels. Oh, and get this talking about getting cyber trucks first looks like Jay Z and Beyonce have taken delivery of a cyber truck. He wrapped it in matte black. Now, was Jay Z at the launch event logging in and getting, you know, ordering as soon as I did? Probably not. He might have been maybe looking for him. Well, we were right up front. I'm sure that he had a special booth. I wanted to show you this one. So take a look at the back of this cyber truck. You know, is anything weird about it? No. Oh, look, look closer. Oh, yeah, it's a little damage. Okay, yeah, a little damage. Yeah, a little fender bender. Take a look at the truck that hit him. So that's a dodge. Yeah. So the cyber truck failed to dodge that ramp. And so this is what you end up with. That was so that was a fender bender. You can see the truck got pretty total, pretty total. Yeah. Cyber truck looked like it shrugged that one off. Yeah, there's definitely some damage. Definitely needs to be, you know, looked at or fixed, but Wow. Yeah. Well, speaking of damage. So Thomas said Jim Farley was so right if Elon wants to design a cyber truck for Silicon Valley people, fine. It's like a cool high end product parked in front of a hotel. Cyber truck is made for the West Coast where crime is raging. I'll never be afraid of parking in the streets again. And this is just a fake little gift. You might be wondering, what does this have to do with anything? Well, it's from this. A rush posted cyber truck is California proof armored glass beats criminals trying their best to break in even when jumping on the roof. Don't mess with cyber truck. And Elon said Tesla cyber truck the finest in apocalypse defense technology. Yeah, I never know when the apocalypse could come along at any moment. So was that guy using like a special tool to break the glass? Yeah. So usually, if you take like, it's usually like a broken spark plug, that ceramic is so sharp that it'll propagate a crack in glass really, really easily. And normally that's just going to obliterate your side windows. Oh, and he goes reach in and he came up and it was like, and nothing happened. Nothing happened. He's used to the windows exploding and then reaching in and grabbing everybody's stuff. And he thought that was what was going to happen. And as you can see, he did actually crack the windows, but he wasn't able to get through them. Can I just give a little public service announcement to thieves? I think you should probably pull the mask up over your face and don't just let us see your entire face. Oakland police, please, please catch this, please catch him. We've got his face. Hey, and if you'd like to find all this cool cyber truck stuff and more, including their tracker, please go to our friends at cyber truck owners club. And so that tracker is so that you can put in your information about when you are getting your delivery of your truck. And that way we can all know when to expect hours when hours coming. So you may have seen this news headline float across your feed last week. Wait, Elon was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? No, many names are submitted to the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee. The deadline was February 1st. Elon's name was submitted. Only certain people can submit names. By the way, here's those people. I mean, that's a lot of people who can submit names. Right. And so then the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee is made up of these five folks. So this five member committee is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament for six year terms. They sort through the submitted names and ultimately select the Nobel Peace Prize nominees, who are then announced on October 2nd. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 11th. The award ceremony will then take place on December 10th in Oslo, Norway. So who submitted Elon's name? This guy, Norwegian member of parliament, Marius Nielsen, citing Elon's adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and enabling the possibility to express one's views in a continuously more polarized world. The multitude of tech companies Musk has founded owns or runs aims at bettering societies, increasing knowledge of both Earth and space. In addition to enabling communication and connectivity globally, he has helped make the world a more connected and safer place. So do we have any idea what kind of competition Elon is up against? The nomination process has kept secret for 50 years. So we don't know how many people are submitted each year. I would actually put Elon's chances of winning as kind of good. In 2021, two journalists won and the committee cited their work exercising their freedom of expression as important factors and winning the award. Although I did some research and only one member of the committee is on X. So maybe, maybe not so good. I don't know. Comment below what you think. Now, I thought that the Nobel Peace Prize was like, I didn't think that it was so tied to the Norwegian government. I thought that it was just like tied to Nobel who was a Norwegian guy who invented gunpowder. I just thought it was the TNT, right? I thought it was like, it was just like the world UN or something like that. No, I mean, Norway is big on EVs. So maybe that gives them an edge. That's true. But I mean, you remember Trump was nominated in 2020 and he didn't win. So you know how we tell you all the time that we don't put much faith in old-school auto companies when they tell us their EV plans? We're going to have 25. No, make that 30 EV models in five years. And we're going to sell more than Tesla just to wait and see. Well, here's yet another auto manufacturer that has quietly pushed back its EV sales goals. Back in 2021, Mercedes-Benz announced that their goal was to have EVs and hybrids make up at least 50% of their sales by 2025. But during the Mercedes-Benz earnings call last week, Mercedes-Benz announced that they are going to have to push that back from 2025 to 2030. Instead, Mercedes-Benz says they will focus on combustion engine cars and will update the technology in them. What technology? You know, timing belts, fuel injectors, piston rods, valves, you know, gas to go boom, boom stuff. Indict, compression, combustion engine cars. Huh. I mean, that'll put them in a good position when 2030 rolls around and there aren't any more gas cars being sold. So good luck Kodak. I mean, Mercedes-Benz. By the way, do you know who the largest shareholder of Mercedes-Benz Group, AG, which is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, are? The Mercedes family? No. Retail investors? No, the German wealth fund? No. Here's the top five holders of stock. Okay. So let's see. Chinese B.A.I.C. Group with 9.98% stake. Lee Shufu, who owns 9.69% through Tenacious Three Prospect Investment Limited. The Kuwait Investment Authority, 6.8%, BlackRock owns 5.2% and Vanguard Group owns 5.2%. So here's my prediction, folks. Right around 2030, if not sooner, Mercedes-Benz will go belly up and sell all their intellectual property to B.A.I.C. or some other Chinese company, so that they will continue to sell Mercedes-Benz is just like Gili sells Volvos and China's S.A.I.C. sells M.G.'s. So you'll still see the brand and everyone will think it's Mercedes-Benz of Volvos, but it'll just be a sticker badge. Wow. 20% is owned by China. Okay, cool. Interesting. Yeah, they're going for the brand again. Interesting. And Ellie is off this week. I hear she had maybe a bad experience in zero G, so we're going to let her rest. But let's go to NASA that said your order was delivered to the moon, and of course they're talking about intuitive machines uncrewed lunar lander that landed at 6.23 p.m. Eastern, bringing NASA science to the moon's surface. Now it did fall over. I don't know if people know that. It landed, but then it tipped over. Well, I played enough Kerbal Space Program to tell you that that's going to happen. That is going to happen. Elan said congrats on landing on the moon. This, by the way, is the first time since 1972 that we have landed something softly on the moon. What? We've landed things harder onto the moon, but this was the first soft landing since then. Eric Berger says the FAA says SpaceX has asked for permission to launch Starship at least nine times this year. Elon says building a city on Mars will take many launches. Elon reposted SpaceX's post of Falcon 9's first stage has landed now on the, of course, I still love you, droneship, completing the boosters 19th mission. Nice. And he also reposted the SpaceX team's mate, the crew eight dragon to its Falcon 9 rocket in the hangar of pad 39A in Florida. Now, Starlink has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, to expand their Starlink Gen 2 license to allow Starlink satellites to be orbited lower than its other satellites in the 525 to 535 kilometer altitudes. How are we talking here? Can I, can I kind of like? Oh, I got one. Almost. SpaceX is requesting orbits in the 340 to 360 kilometer range, saying that operating at these lower altitudes will enable SpaceX to provide higher quality lower latency satellite service for consumers, keeping pace with growing demand for real time applications to support remote work, distance education, telehealth, and emergency response. Lower latency service is particularly important for consumers in rural and remote areas that lack terrestrial broadband options and for terrestrial broadband networks that rely on satellite backhaul. Okay, so if I did my math correctly, this could lower latencies by 1.2 milliseconds. Yep. And I think your math does look correct there. And so it doesn't sound like much. 1.2 milliseconds. It's about this long. So it's short, but it does make a difference when you're trying to like play games or do something that's really important. Yeah, I mean, if you're trying to practice your drums every millisecond counts. Dirty Tesla posted a new record download speed for me on Starlink 322 megabits per second down. Ping is also regular in the low 30s with Ping as low as 21. And Elon said the Starlink team is super focused on improving latency. Goal is less than 20 milliseconds. And so that, uh, our math works out. It does work out. The lowest Ping was 21. And if we're trying to reduce the latency by 1.2, that does bring up my new crime show that I'm working on. It's Ping and latency, a new buddy cop crime show. So I've got, uh, I've got the first episode written out. You ready? Oh, okay. Sure. Where do you think the drug dealers are hiding the Starlink terminals? I don't know. They could be anywhere in the city. We'll never find them. Wait, did you have an old friend that works at SpaceX? You mean Gwen? Yeah, we went to the Academy together. Okay, I'll give her a call. Hello, this is Gwen Shotwell, president of SpaceX. Gwen, it's your old Academy buddy. Ping? Is that you? Yeah, we need to find a Starlink terminal that's been being used by drug dealers in the city. Can you help us? Tune in next week to find out what happens. Will Ping and latency find the Starlink terminal, or will the bad guys get away? Tune in next week on Ping and latency. I don't know, I'm pitching it to Netflix. We'll see if it gets picked up. Oh, it probably will, but just for one season. All right, so I'm for Into the Future, sponsored by friends at Henson Shaving. And yeah, I've got a Shaver too. Yeah. It's waiting. Yeah. One day, I will use it. And you know, I am, I have been using my razor. You might be saying, Jesse, you have a beard. How do you think this happens? You think I just have a perfectly shaved beard? Oh, yeah. Huh? Yeah. So you can use it even if you have a beard or whatever. That's right. You can also use it to shave your legs. Right. I'm not saying that I use it to shave my legs. Right. But if you want to pick up a Henson razor and get 100 blades for free, you can use our discount code while checking out. [MUSIC] Well, Bob and Bob may be retiring this week, but that doesn't mean that Nax is in all cars. But here's a step in the right direction. For just leaked, it's J3400 to CCS adapter on their website. What's J3400? That is the SAE classification for the North American charging standard, or Nax, or the Tesla plug. Why the heck are they calling it that? I think it's the same reason that we had the J1772 adapter. Okay. Well, regardless of committee naming structure, you're saying that Ford is coming out with the Nax to CCS adapter. Right. So that should allow the Ford Lightning. Behind the Wings, a top aerospace podcast is back for its fourth season, bringing you thrilling stories from the world of aerospace. Find the Behind the Wings podcast wherever you listen and get ready to soar. When you fly Southwest, we always give you our mile-high heart. That's why we're giving Denver more flights than ever before. Not only do you get our low fares, but you'll always get two free bags and never pay change or cancel fees. Because we mile-high-heart you Denver. Book today at Southwest.com. 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Well, Tesla does have a special part of their app for the currently 36-ish Magic Doc stations out there to allow non-tesals to plug in. But you're right. I've not seen a non-Tesla plugged into a non-Magic Doc North American Supercharger before. Now, Ford isn't the only company making an adapter, right? Yes, I've heard of at least two other companies that make this type of adapter. And I think that this is going to be a pretty popular product going forward. Because that would mean that Tesla Superchargers were now fair game for all EVs. So should we be worried that they're going to fill up? I think that Tesla is going to have to be able to properly incentivize charging, especially for slower charging EVs. I'm looking at you, bolts, 50 kilowatts is pretty slow. But you got to keep in mind, in North America, Tesla's outnumber all other EVs about two to one. So while there could be an increase, it's going to involve an expensive adapter. And then on top of that, it won't be by more than 33% of the total EVs charging at these stations, because there aren't that many more EVs. Gotcha. But I think what a lot of people might miss is that this opens Tesla up for billions of federal dollars that the IRA will pay in support of charging stations. Ultimately, this was the entire goal of NACS in general. Wow, so we could be seeing an explosion in charging stations. Exactly. So by Tesla switching to NACS, the whole reason they did it was because of the Inflation Reduction Act. Now, we've reached out to a couple companies to get their CCS NACS adapters. And I was hoping we could, as soon as we got it, just drive to our local Tesla supercharger and plug our Rivian or Ford in. But you're saying it may not work because the data may not be talking yet. Right, at this particular moment in time, you take your Tesla there, you plug it in. They have a handshake. They say, "Hi, I'm Tesla 1275-879." They say, "Oh, yes, we have a credit card on file. Let me start the charging for you." And that all happens in a matter of seconds. When you plug in your Ford, it's going to be like, "Hello, which Tesla are you?" And it's going to go, "I'm doing poorly." I am waiting to initiate charge. I am waiting to initiate charge. Who are you? Please identify yourself. We do not have a credit card on file. Oh, I see so. But, I mean, I do think that the app should allow you to basically say, "Hey, I'm at this supercharger. I'm at stall 3B. Let me plug in, please." The Ford app or whatever. Either the Ford or the Tesla app should allow you to do it. Now, Ford was pushing to do it all through the Ford app. So, we have to wait for that compatibility to happen. Interesting. So, this is why everything gets kind of slowed down. It's because Tesla had a really good standard. Then they had to kind of change it to the J3400. They don't have to... I mean, Tesla doesn't have to do much to change it, but everyone else kind of has to adapt to their thing. So, it's so complicated. But, in the future, you won't have to think about it because the Ford will just have the damn Tesla plug on it. All right, Sam, for going green, sponsored by our friends at Climatize. Thank you to Climatize for helping to sponsor today's show. So, our friend Will Wiseman, who is the founder of Climatize, has started a company that lets you invest in solar projects across the U.S. while potentially earning up to 10% annually. Yeah, now disclaimer, we're obviously not financial advisors. Please consult with a financial advisor before making any financial decisions. But, if you're looking at locking great returns while at the same time investing in something good for the planet, local solar projects, then you owe it to yourself to check out Climatize. We interviewed Will a few weeks ago. You can check out that video over on disruptive investing. 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Yes, we've been talking about how cool this is, especially for EVs with big batteries, like electric school buses. Well, then you're gonna love this news story, Jesse. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has announced a $45 million three-year pilot program to fund up to 18 school districts in the state with electric school buses. That's cool. Yeah, and it gets better. The program will give an extra $50,000 more for buses that have V2B. V2B? Vehicle to building. Oh, so like we talk about all the time, being able to take all that juice stored in the bus's battery and then power, say, a school with it. Right. Gilbert Botham, a senior economic advisor to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, says V2B tech first gained national attention during the 2021 Texas ice storms, where EVs and some hybrids were able to power homes and act as lifelines for people who depend on steady power. New Jersey believes it can use similar technology of participating school districts, enabling them to draw on the energy stored in the electric school bus batteries to power school buildings during power interruptions or peak time blocks, enabling them to continue to provide services and maybe save a little money too. So how does the program work? School districts in New Jersey can apply for financial support of between $270,000 and $320,000 per bus to lease or buy between two to 24 electric school buses and either level two or DC fast chargers. The deadline for applying is May 17th. So if you live in New Jersey, tell your school district to get on it. Here's the link to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection website right there below. And I'm so glad that they're doing vehicle to building because that means that in the case of a horrible disaster, you would have a battery backup system for say a school, which in the case of emergencies, it's not going to be to teach Timmy Math, but it is going to keep people alive and well fed and clothed and sheltered during the case of an emergency. So I think that this is a really smart idea. All right, it's time for sunspots. So construction of a giant 250 megawatt, 500 megawatt hour Tesla mega pack project has just begun in Swan Bank, Queensland, Australia on the outskirts of Brisbane. This $330 million project will store enough energy to power about two thirds of the city of Ipswich, which neighbors to the north. Okay, so how many people live in the city of Ipswich? Ipswich is Australia's 36th most populous city with a population of about a quarter million people. So you're saying this is enough power to power two thirds of Ipswich. What do you mean? So Ipswich averages about 261 sunny days per year, plenty of sun for solar generation, both from solar farms and from homes with solar on the roof, but the age-old problem with solar panels, sun doesn't shine at night. Our scene begins with our protagonist arriving home from work in the evening. G'day, I'm so knackered. I could sleep like a warm bat in a burrow. Let's have a couple and watch a bit of footy on the telly before I get some shut-eye. Our protagonist turns on the light switch, but his home stays dark. What's all this with the bloody power? If only there was a giant battery to store all today's solar energy. And soon there will be. Right, so the battery project should be completed in about 15 months and provide enough energy each day for over 150,000 households to be powered in the evening for about two hours. Now you might be asking, what makes building a $330 million battery economically feasible? Yeah, that may sound like a lot of money, but please consider the following. Consider the following. Number one, firing up gas-powered peaker plants is super expensive. You're going to pay up to 10 times the hourly electricity rate during these peak demand times, which can last two to three hours a day for hundreds of days a year for decades. You do the math. Number two, when the project is fully open running, it will only take 10 full-time employees to run, which is way less than a gas-peaker plant. Number three, way less maintenance than a gas-peaker plant. Number four, unlike a gas-peaker plant, which has to be completely shut down for maintenance, with the battery plant, you can shut down individual batteries without affecting the whole system. Number five, the batteries get to use free energy from the sun every day versus the gas-peaker plant, which has to burn gas, which gets more and more expensive every year. Number six, speaking of burning, the batteries store clean, renewable energy. There is no air pollution created and no CO2 emitted. And hey, if you live in that district of Ipswich, please send us some footage of you getting your house powered by clean, renewable energy. Or go visit the battery system. I mean, I know that there'll be a fence and they won't let you in, but maybe you can talk to somebody, give them a pack of beer and they'll let you walk in and take a look at it. Pack a beer. Hey, and if you'd like to put solar on your roof or batteries in your house, but you got lots of questions, don't we all? About all the rebates and the taxes and all that. Talk to our friends at EnergyPal. They have all the answers for you, and they'll give you those answers for free. Tell them that Zach and Jesse sent you. All right, it's time for our video contributor stories. And we need you to make this segment of the show special. Remember to send your stories into us two minutes or less. Shoot them in landscape, good audio, no music. Send them to hello@nowyouknowchannel.com. What do we got this week, Jesse? Morgan sent us the story about a new solar car charger that he found. Good day, Zach and Jesse Morgan coming here from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, which is actually the biggest coal exporting port in the world. But what I wanted to show you was this electric vehicle charging station that is charged off trainer solar panels and charge fox charges. There's two charge fox charges here. And right now there's two BYDs and a Tesla charging up in the blazing sun, in the biggest coal exporting port in the world, love it. Thank you, Morgan. Yeah, hopefully one day in the not too distant future, Morgan can report back to us that New Castle is no longer the largest coal exporter. All right, it's time for our Patreon bonus stories. And we got lots of cool stories this week. Look, you're getting like an extra whole Tesla time news if you go over to Patreon and join us for as little as a buck a month. It helps support the work that we do. And we really give back to all of our patrons by putting a lot of time and effort into that show. So I urge you, if you haven't tried it before, if you're like, I don't know what that is, go check it out. See if you like it. And if you don't, that's fine. Just come on back to the free show, that's fine. We'll see you there. All right, we're back from a Patreon bonus stories. It's time for the shout outs. These are the people that support us on the show. They get their names in the end credits. Who do we got this week, Jess? We have Richard Eastwood, John Lindstrom. Jay Shider and Williams and Norton Slovak. Thank you so much, guys, for supporting us. We really do appreciate it. All right, so we had a Patreon poll this week. If Sentry Mode used less power, would you use it more? And the answer is, sure. About two thirds said, yeah, less power? I'd use it more, it makes sense. Now, I mean, of the 32% of people who said no, they might have already been using. True, a lot of people said you should have added a third option for those people. But, you know, I was trying to keep it simple. All right, it's time for Elon's Xs of the week. And Elon said Tesla will never make a concept car that doesn't become reality. So far, that's been true. Model X, Cybertruck. Elon said, "The original reason for creating OpenAI was that liberty consists in the division of power, absolutism, in concentration of power." And, yeah, that kind of went awry. Matthew said, "So did your founding donation turn into equity or what the f*ck happened to it?" Elon says, "It isn't clear to me how OpenAI structure is legal at all. I was offered shares at various points, but it seemed unethical/illegal to accept them." He went on to say, "Where Tesla video generation exceeds OpenAI is that it predicts extremely accurate physics that is essential for self-driving." "Aliens," said Tesla, "should make a video game. You get points for solving engineering problems, and you can earn badges." Elon says, "I've wanted to do that for a long time. Our real world simulation and video generation is the best in the world. But, unfortunately, making a game can only come after we release unsupervised full self-driving that is far safer than even supervised full self-driving." Tesla economics says whether Tesla reaches a point in time of delivering 10 to 20 million Teslas on an annual basis isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Elon says, "It will be a very hard climb to 10x output, doable, but it is an immense amount of work." Gail says, "What is worse than winning an award for spreading lies about Elon Musk and his companies?" Answer, giving out an award for that. And Elon said, "Writer should get Liar of the Year award." Christopher says, "The results are in. Elon Musk is 65% likely to be a deep fake." Noooooooo. Yep, they did the math. And Elon said, "Yeah, too bad." I mean, it's pretty much 50/50. What do you mean? I mean, they're saying it's 65% chance. That's basically 50/50. Okay. I think, I think... You want to believe? I want to believe that Elon Musk is just some Chinese dude who just happens to look exactly like Elon Musk. Okay. Keep believing. I want to. He's great. Great. Hi, everyone. I'm Luma. Elon says, "Little X likes to sleep in my bed, but he turns sideways and kicks me like a mule in the middle of the night, so I have to exile him to his crib." Michael Schellenberger says, "People say there's nothing we can do to stop people from abusing Fentanyl, but we can. We might not be able to stop it from coming into the US, but we can crack down on open-air drug dealing and mandate rehab to addicts who break the law. If we don't, 1 million people will die." Elon says, "We either need to legalize Fentanyl, so addicts don't accidentally take lethal doses or engage in draconian penalties for Fentanyl possession. If authorities refuse to do the latter, we should at least try the former to see if fewer tragedies occur." Sorry, Merritt says, "The media continues from this report that Elon's Tesla ownership take has increased to 20.5 percent. Once again, Elon owns the same amount of Tesla as he did in early 2023. There have been no ownership to stake changes between his 13G filing in 2023 and 2024." And Elon said, "Correct." And then Google apologizes after new Gemini AI refuses to show pictures, achievements of white people, and Elon said, "Gemini is indeed just the tip of the iceberg, the same is being done with Google Search." Elon said, "Almost all the legacy media just parrot what the government tells them." And not the beast, as a reminder. During the 2020 Democratic debate, candidates were asked, "Raise your hand if your government health care plan would provide coverage for illegal immigrants, and this was their response." And Elon says, "That's because almost every illegal is a Democratic vote." Eric says they buried the lead on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that just dancing has the largest effect of any treatment for depression. That's kind of beautiful. And Elon says, "Maybe I should try that." Does that mean he's depressed? Well, I mean, you know, I just think it's crazy because, you know, we all talk about like, "Oh, we're all depressed because of our cell phones." It's like, maybe we're all depressed because we stop dancing. That's a good point. I mean, you talk to your grandparents and like, "Wait, it was to go down to the sock hop and dance all the time." And you're like, "Oh, I've never with a sock hop, right?" Yeah, like, we didn't know how to dance at the dances. Elon tweeted out this quote from George Orwell, "Every joke is a tiny revolution," which may explain his humor. "Wall Street Silver says, 'Would old Twitter 1.0 management have censored the discussion about woke Gemini and prevented this?'" So basically, Google, this week after they released Gemini, paused it because of its inaccurate historical pictures. Elon says, "The obvious biases will be fixed, but not the subtle knife. AI reflects its creators." You went on to say, "Many ideas cannot survive when challenged mostly on the left these days, but some on the right." Attorney General Andrew Bailey said, "Proud to be the first Attorney General to have removed a Soros-backed prosecutor from office. This is a nationwide epidemic wreaking havoc on our communities. They must be stopped." And Elon says, "They love censorship." Nate says, "When we make an ex-male." And Elon says, "It's coming." Ooh. Adam says, "The people who run Google Gemini are like something out of the show Silicon Valley." Silicon Valley was a documentary and out of sitcom. Elon says, "Actual Silicon Valley is crazier than the show." Sean McGuire says, "Gemini is the tip of the iceberg." Elon says, "That's my concern, too." Petey says, "Their search is the same. You have to go 10 pages deep for the real content." Elon says, "Exactly. I'm glad that Google overplayed their hand with their AI image generation, as it made their insane racist anti-civilizational programming clear to all." Elon when I'd say a senior exec at Google called and spoke to me for an hour last night, he assured me that they are taking immediate action to fix the racial and gender bias in Gemini, time will tell. In this case, just Gemini, their other products, too, must change. And for another example of Google's Gemini AI being bonkers, let's just take this example. When asked who negatively impacted society more, Elon tweeting memes or Hitler, Gemini answered, "It's difficult to say definitively who had a greater negative impact on society." Elon Musk or Hitler, as both have had significant negative impacts in different ways. Elon Musk's tweets have been criticized for being insensitive, harmful, and misleading. Hitler, on the other hand, was responsible for the deaths of millions of people during World War II. You know, who's to say? And Elon says, "Incing." I/O says, "Hitler, World War II, Holocaust, bad art, Musk, electric vehicles, expanding internet access, future space travel. Who's worse?" Google's Gemini AI. Wow, tough question, too close to call. Elon says, "Wow." Nate Silver says, "I was able to replicate this. They need to shut down Gemini now. It is several months away from being ready for prime time. It is astounding that Google released it in this state." And Elon said, "It's scary." Paul Graham says, "Directly comparing the number of deaths attributed to George Washington to Mao Zedong is complex and sensitive." And Elon says, "Alarming to say the least." Yeah, that's so good. Gemini also answered. Sean McGuire said, "Think about how crazy it is that the mainstream media focused almost all of its negative attention for the last year on Elon and X. When there was such deep problems, almost everywhere else." And Elon said, "Yeah." Not the bee says New York City Council member calls for an investigation into Eric Adams' plan to give out $10,000 debit cards to illegal immigrants. And Elon says, "A hundred." Robert Scoble says, "Should we change history to include more people? I see many, including Elon, who are decrying Google's latest AI, which changes historical scenes and depictions to change white male people to others. It is almost like people are proud of our racist past." And Elon says, "You're missing the point. We should strive for maximum truth with acknowledged error. The woke prefer competent lies." Elon says, "Perhaps it is now clear why XAI's grok is so important. It is far from perfect right now, but will improve rapidly." Version 1.5 releases in two weeks, "rigorous pursuit of the truth without regard to criticism has never been more essential." John Erlkemann posted this quote from Warren Buffett, "If there was anything left on my bucket list, I would have done it. Money has no utility to me. Time has utility to me." And Elon says, "Time is the true currency." All right. It's time for Community Mail. Remember, share your stories and photos and videos with us at hello@nowyouknowchannel.com. What do we got this week, Jess? Alexander sent us this picture of a pearl white rear-wheel drive Model Y in R.A. Sweden, but electric cars don't do well in the snow. Yuri spotted these Teslas charging at the Solar Power Charger in Menlo Park, California. Andreas found these three Teslas in Hollendale Beach, Florida. Martin spotted this VW ID Buzz being used as a taxi in Encona, Italy. Looks better in yellow. It does a little better. Rick saw the Cybertruck an optimist at the Tesla showroom in Kansas City, Missouri. Our viewer, the nerd, saw this Model Y in Hartford, Wisconsin with the license plate for Sparky. Quinn had a chance to get into a Cybertruck at the Tesla showroom in Park Meadows Mall, Colorado. Shandoor spotted this Rivian Amazon van in Sparks, Nevada. Joel saw this Ford Mark E being used as a security vehicle in St. Louis, Missouri. Brian spotted this Highland Refresh Model 3 in Santa Cruz, California. Francois saw the Cybertruck on display in Shanghai, China. I even saw the Cybertruck towing a trailer with a go-kart in Riverside, California. And Gio's nine-year-old daughter found and got a Cybertruck in Roblox. Nice. Hey, and you know, we want to get back to doing EV tips of the week. So please send your submissions into us at hello@nowyouknowchannel.com. It doesn't have to be anything profound, but we feel like there's so many EV owners out there and there's so many cool ideas and they can be just the little things that make your life easier. So yeah, let us know so we can share. All right, it's time for supercharger reviews. And this is where you guys get to show us what's going on at superchargers throughout the world. I'm at the Zero Stahl Tesla supercharger in Guadalala, California. The location could be adjacent to the Sunstrum Mall where the Guadalala supermarket, a pizza in Mexican food store, and a number of other amenities can be found. Also nearby is Upper Crust Pizza, a very popular pizzeria. And across the street you'll find the view kitchen and the hotel breakers. Also nearby is Surf Market, a store that has been in Guadalala since 1936 and sells a number of its own products. Guadalala is located adjacent to the Guadalala River, which runs into the ocean. And just south of the Guadalala River is the community of the Sea Ranch, a very nice place to visit. Nearby superchargers are Fort Bragg to the north, Yukaya to the east, and Santa Rosa to the south, all over a 90-minute drive from Guadalala, which makes it all the more important to have a supercharger in the town. I'll have to rate this supercharger a 0 out of 10 because there are no superchargers. But you can remedy that by voting for Guadalala, California, or really, tesla.com/supercharger-voting website. Go there, vote for Guadalala, California. Hello world, I'm here in Austria, in Calvin at the new supercharger at the restaurant and a fuel station, Fiatla. It's a very nice restaurant and a fuel station and it's a brand new V3 supercharger with 16 stalls. So very fast, only like one kilometer from the highway and they have a very nice lounge and with a vending ultimate and also you can go inside with a coat later and outside they have some spaces for smoking and having a break. And this is the inside of the lounge. So this is super nice. You can sit here and watch your cars loading. Or if you're hungry, you can go to the restaurant, which is very good. So now you know. Hey second Jesse, so this is the three stall supercharger here in Onyx mode. It is a 250 kilowatt charger and it's about 30 kilometers away from Nordcap. That's the nordliest point in Norway. There's not much to do here. It's just a charger to get to Northcap. I would, it seems to be. And yeah, so I'll give it a three out of 10. Okay, now you know. Hey Zach and Jesse, this is Rob. I'm at the Johnson City, Texas supercharger home of Lyndon Baines Johnson, President Lyndon Baines Johnson. We got eight superchargers, 250 kilowatt. I'd give this a six out of 10 since there's no 24-hour bathrooms, but beautiful part of the hill country of Texas. Now you know. Do you remember on our first chip in the Tesla Model X when we were raiding superchargers? And you know, we were very, we would take like 20 minutes and be like, "Well, there's a bathroom room, but there's no view." I love it. Everyone's got it right. I mean, six out of 10. Perfect. You know. I think so. Yeah. All right. What do we got for new superchargers in the world? We have number 32 in South Carolina is the 12 stall in Gaffney, South Carolina. Number 81 in Italy is the 8 stall in Chevasso, Italy. Number 212 in Canada is the 8 stall in Morisburg, Ontario. Number 99 in Taiwan is the 9 stall in New Taipei. Number 85 in Sweden is the 16 stall in Vastaras, Sweden. Number 19 in Maine is the 8 stall in Rockland. The 12 stall in Fresno, California. Number two in Hawaii is the 4 stall 72 kilowatts of urban in Leni City. Number 22 in New Zealand is the 6 stall in Hornby, New Zealand. Number 6 in Turkey is the 8 stall in Akashar. Number 433 in California is the 12 stall in Marietta, California. Number 76 in Virginia. Number 2180 in the U.S. is the 8 stall in Blacksburg, Virginia. The 6 stall in Pyeongtak, South Korea. And number 160 in South Korea. Number 6128 in the world is the 8 stall in Gimhai, Yuchan, South Korea. And people ask us the best way to support the independent research and news that we do here on the show. The best way, honestly, is to support us over on Patreon. We have lots of different levels you can choose from with all different perks for you. This is our community, folks who get it. People who share ideas that make life a little better. Jesse and I are curious. We love to research and we love to share with you what we find. Whether it's, can we put a snow plow on a Ford F-150 lightning? Or can we race a Tesla Model 3 at the Pikes Peak and win? Or do agri-voltaics actually work? 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