(upbeat music) Why wear a seatbelt? The math speaks for itself. You have a one in 40 chance of being in a crash this year, but wearing a seatbelt reduces your risk of serious harm by 50%. The rollover crash more than three out of five deaths are from those who weren't wearing theirs. Seatbelts save lives. Over 370,000 in fact, most passengers killed in crashes weren't buckled up. Nobody is above the laws of physics. Buckle up and shift into safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation. How dangerous is it to unwrap a burger at 40 miles per hour? More so than you think. In a little over two seconds, your car can travel slightly more than 117 feet, which is the same length as 20 bicycles. Anything that distracts you while driving is dangerous. That's why driving while texting can be deadly too. So put it down, it can wait. Don't drive distracted, shift into safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation. Hey everybody, I'm Zach. And I'm Jesse. 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And that has led to so many poorly researched articles and headlines and stories about the end of the Tesla supercharger network. Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. Well, let's go to the source to get some actual information. Tesla Australia issued an email last week with an update on the supercharger network. They said the supercharger network is still core to Tesla's mission of accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Reducing costs and increasing efficiency are important for fulfilling our mission and remain a priority. The supercharger network will continue to be expanded. Projects currently in construction are continuing to be completed and put into operation. Supercharger sites are continuing to be serviced and maintained by our team with operational support being provided. And Tesla is charging X channel posted. Since 2012, charging has been a pillar of Tesla's mission providing dependable freedom to travel. Supercharging is the largest network globally with the highest capital plus operational efficiency and we will continue to sustain and grow the network. Thank you to site hosts and suppliers for your patience as we restructure internally. All right, so let's all just take a minute and think about what is about to happen. Tesla is going to be making a big announcement on August 8th about robo taxis. What are robo taxis? They're electric vehicles that drive you around without a human driver. But they are still EVs, right? They have batteries that need to be charged. The existing supercharger network has stalls where you, a human, get out of your car and physically plug in your vehicle. Robo taxis will either need to have humans at each supercharger location to do this or test the bots. Sure, or test the bots, but either way, that's expensive and the whole point of robo taxis is to reduce the cost of transportation. So Tesla is probably planning a way to charge the cars without the need for a human or a robot to plug them in. My guess would be wireless charging or a robot snake arm. Either way, this would mean that some existing supercharger stalls would need to be updated and the new supercharger locations would need whatever new tech is going to be installed. And that, I think, is Tesla's new focus for the supercharger network. And just in case you still don't believe us, the Tesla will still keep expanding the supercharger network. Elon said, "Just to reiterate, Tesla will spend well over $500 million expanding our supercharger network to create thousands of new chargers this year. That's just on the new sites and expansions, not counting operations costs, which are much higher." So there you have it. Stop reading those articles about the end of the supercharger network, it is not true, right? So if you drive a Tesla, you already know how fast supercharging is, but now we've got an official report that proves that the Tesla Model 3 Highland, that's the refresh, is the fastest charging EV out there. AMCI testing is an independent automotive research firm and they have been testing EVs to see which ones charge closest to what they call MP6. - What's MP6? - MP6 is what they named the duration of a typical gas station stop, which is six minutes MP6. So it's how many miles of range each EV can add within this essential and expected six minute window. - All right, so what did they come up with? - Well, here are the top eight. And as you can see, Model 3 is at the top with 60.5 MP6, meaning you can charge 60 miles in six minutes. Followed by number two, the Toyota BZ-4X, which was a surprise to me that it even made it onto the list. So these eight EVs were charged at a Tesla supercharger using the Magic Dock, the director of AMCI testing, Guy Mangiumelli says, "It will be interesting to see "what happens to Tesla's performance when we turn the tables "and test the Model 3 on a non-Tesla network." - He also said that the 2024 Model 3 shows just what a manufacturer can do when they control both the vehicle and the chargers protocol. It's also important to note that this performance is achieved on Tesla's lowest price vehicle and with a battery chemistry, likely less favorable to fast charging than other Tesla models or non-Tesla competitors. So it says the Model 3 pulled 174 kilowatts in the first minute. Feel like this result for the Model 3 of 60 miles in six minutes or 600 miles an hour is actually low. If you pull into a supercharger with a low state of charge, like let's say 15%, you should be able to pull an even higher kilowatt average, likely close to like 250 kilowatts is usually not unheard of. - Yeah, state of charge has a huge role to play here. If you pull in a BZ4X with zero charge, you'll charge faster than a Tesla at 90% state of charge. So it seems like they should have talked about that. Also the size of the battery, the efficiency of the car. - Well, and I don't think that they tested any other Teslas in their test. - It didn't seem to be? - Right, I mean, they would have been near the top of the list. - 'Cause I just feel like a Model Y, while it's slightly less efficient than a Model 3, if you have the larger battery, or even a Model 3 with a larger battery pack, should have been able to charge faster. I don't know, 'cause we've seen 1000 mile an hour charging speeds, and that was back in like, what, like 2019, 2018? - I mean, I don't particularly find this MP6 that useful, but maybe you guys do, like maybe the average American would like to know how fast you can charge in six minutes. I just feel like they're kind of apples and oranges, but I don't know, let us know down in the comments if you think this is a useful metric. - Right, I thought that it was interesting that they were using a magic dock charger. This means that I think the connection speed is gonna be pretty quick, because we've experienced this using Tesla's app entirely, not even using any third-party app, you can charge most EVs that way. - Also weird that he said the tables might be turned when they use a non-Tesla network, kind of implying that like, Teslas won't do as well if they're plugged in at an EA charger, which makes no sense. - Because that's not discriminate. - Well, it also is completely irrelevant, because let me just think of the last time that I used an EA charger for my Tesla. - Oh, right, never. I never needed it. I've never gone like, oh darn. I wish I could have used the EA station on the other side of the highway. - It's just, you know, we've had Teslas now for over a decade, and it's just like these companies are just realizing now how amazing they are. I don't know, it just still surprises me that it takes this long. So Elon said probably starting rolling out 12.4 next week, and that was last week, so it would be this week. - He went on to say 12.4 has almost completely retrained models. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes accelerates or breaks too fast for most people's taste. 12.5 and 12.6 are in various stages of testing. We're getting into rare, complex situations. For example, going down a narrow one-way road, encountering a road closure and having to reverse out to find a new route, which is something that many human drivers have extreme difficulty with. That closure also needs to be communicated to the rest of the fleet, so you don't get a whole bunch of Teslas stuck down a road. - That's awesome. - I like that he has a little bit of sense of humor. - I don't know, I thought it was funny. - And that also, they're testing this very, I won't say that it's a common problem, but it's definitely like a big problem for people who don't know how to reverse their cars. - Yeah, I mean, to me, this was big news, but I think this next part was the even bigger part of the news for most people. Holmar's catalog said, "The nag has no reason to exist anymore, kill it." - Kill it, if you have to. - And Elon said, "Fixed in 12.4." - So a lot of people didn't know what exactly meant, so far as I'd tried to enlighten us, he said, "Elon Musk insinuates that the nag present in FSD that asked the driver to lightly pull on the wheel will be removed in 12.4, Elon, can you confirm? If true, this is a pretty big deal." - And Elon said, "Yes." - That nag, which I think a lot of people judging from comments I've read, they're tired of it. - Oh, it even has a sound, it goes nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag." - Seems like it's gonna go away in 12.4. - So the question for me is, the nag I thought was like, part of NHTSA or some kind of agency that had control? - Yes, but I think that now if you have a cabin camera, you can use the cabin camera, 'cause in the Ford, if you're on blue crews, they use the camera to tell whether you're paying attention or not, not the steering wheel. - I see. - Now, I find that annoying. I think you're about to find out that it's not as good as you think, because in the Ford, when I'm doing a good job driving, but I happen to be like looking to my left or looking at the console, I will get a like, - pay attention. - Hmm, so I don't know. But I also want to talk about this thing. I mean, I think we just overlooked 12.6, right? Which could be like the ultimate version. - The greatest of all time. - Is this gonna be ready for the Robotaxi discussion on August 8th? - Or is August 8th agnostic to what the current version of full self-driving is because they've gotten it close enough to where he can talk about the plans? - I don't know, if I'm Elon, on August 8th, I want to be able to show off something. - Just roll it out. - Yeah, just I want it to be like, and by the way, while I've been on stage, this car has been picking up people or something. - That's true. I mean, I feel like in a close course, like if they go somewhere in Hollywood, like a studio lot or something, and they have the cars just driving around autonomously, maybe you could show it off, or maybe they're just gonna talk about it. And no one is gonna understand what he's talking about 'cause it's so new. - Look, I know I sometimes say, oh, post strange things, but that's just how my brain works. - Yeah. - Let us know down below your thoughts. I mean, what's gonna happen? Is it gonna be FSD-13 Robotaxy Edition? So Arthur posted Tesla FSD 12.3.6, recognizing hand signals. Is FSD-12 finally recognizing handheld stop signs and hand signals given by roadway workers? I tested this in an actual function construction zone with traffic being diverted wrong way and witnessed some impressive results. - Elon said, yeah, I wouldn't count on this in 12.3, but 12.4 is a big improvement and 12.5 might nail it. - And I just wanna point out, in this video, a construction person tells him to go this way, the wrong way, and it follows the directions, which is pretty cool. Although, I suppose that would mean that if you just put on a vest, you might not even need to start telling cars where to go. - You might not even need the vest, which might be the weird thing. I mean, as a human, you have to make that distinction, too. - Right. - Everyone's gonna go like, oh my gosh, the guy in a vest can divert traffic, let's write an article about it. If a guy in a vest puts out a couple cones, holds a stop sign and tells you to go a certain way, do you ever go like, let me see your credentials there, mister? - No, you never do that. You go like, oh, I guess we're going this way. - What credentials would they pull out? - I'm not-- - I'm an official fragment. - Yeah. - My father was an official fragment and my grandfather was. - Watcher Guru says, President Biden's $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle charging has only produced seven stations in two years, Washington Post reports. And Elon tweeted, wow. So according to the Washington Post, only seven charging locations in four states have been built in the US in the past two years with this money. That's just 38 actual chargers. Wait, now when was the bill signed into law? - We signed into law at November 21st, 2021. - Okay, so that's 29 months. So to be fair, this is the federal government. So let's say it takes 12 months just to get up and running, to get all the filing cabinets into some building. And then that would be 17 months or a year and a half to start building the chargers, which, you know, you got to pull permits, you know, you got to, you got to talk to people, you got to do studies. - Sure, yeah. - So how many chargers has Tesla installed in the US in the past 17 months? - Well, let's see. - Tesla had 1820 supercharger locations in North America as of the 1st of January 2022. And now there are 2,517. So that means Tesla opened 697 locations in the past 17 months in North America. Now each location averages about nine stalls. So that 6,342 supercharger stalls in the past 17 months opened in North America. - And just to be clear, that's giving the federal government a year to get started. - Right, that's the full year. - That's the past, you asked for the past 17 months, that's what it is. - Right, yes. And the federal government just, they built 38 plugs. - Yes, so for every one EV charger that the federal government opened, Tesla opened 166. And I'm just counting the superchargers. I'm not even counting the destination chargers. - But, I mean, what were the plans, right? Like how many chargers did the Fed's plan on actually building? - That money should have paid for 20,000 chargers in 5,000 locations according to analysis by Atlas Public Policy. - And where are these four states where federally funded chargers were built? - Hawaii, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania and under construction, they're in four other states. So this photo is from November when they started building a location in Ohio. - Okay, but what the heck is taking so long? - Well, I mean, each state has to start a program to accept the bids for projects. And so far 17 states haven't even started that process. - Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I get it. So you take 12 months to set up the federal program. And then those filing cabinets. - Then you got to set up the state program. And then they got to start accepting bids. - Well, so then each state has to approve the projects, then submit those projects back to the federal government for approval there. And each project has to be operational 97% of the time, provide at least 150 kilowatts of power and be no more than one mile from an interstate highway, along with many other requirements. So you see, building a charging network is no easy task. And yet Tesla makes it look almost easy. - I mean, it's actually a miracle that we have these seven locations. - Yeah, it's kind of, wow, great work guys. I'm sorry, I just, I thought I had not paid attention to this for a while and I thought by now we would have hundreds of thousands of them. And to have seven is just kind of a joke. Well, you clearly don't understand, we got to do this the right way. - Well, as Elon says, I'm starting to think that the government is not efficient at spending. So last week we reported on Ford's massive Model E division losses in Q1. Now Bloomberg is reporting that Ford cuts battery orders as EV losses top $100,000 per car. And Elon responded on X, making a great electric car at a great price is extremely difficult. - Hey, it's just like we said last week. Ford is losing about $120,000 per EV that they sell on average. - Yeah, and because of that, Ford is forecasting, get this, that their EV division will lose as much as $5.5 billion, that's billion with a B this year. CEO Jim Farley said during the Q1 earnings call that the Model E division is the main drag on the whole company right now. - Wow, isn't it a drag making EVs? It's such a drag. - I just, how do you? - Can't we go back to making them the old way? - I just, how did you, how do you do that? Like there's people who work at Ford. This isn't like, if you told me, like one day you're just like, Jesse, quick, how does Ford make EVs? I go like, oh, the buy batteries and they'll put them in cars and buy motors and put them in cars and then you sell the cars. And then they go like, Jesse, you messed up. You didn't think of all these four billion things that are the problem. And then each car now costs $120,000 in losses. And I would have gone like, oh no, but man, it wasn't my job, but Ford has thousands of employees. Who are all like trained engineers and analysts and people who have offices and computers. And then they go into work every day and they have health insurance and they have like paid time off. And they can think about things and spend time and work with other people and have meetings and do all this kind of work. And they end up with this? How do you do that? Wasn't someone gonna like at a meeting go like, okay, so I did the math. - Well, you actually just said why. They spend a lot of time doing all those things. None of those that you mentioned had the word EV on. - Whoa, but I mean, you had time to think about it and no one at a meeting was like, oh, I just did the math. And if we do all this, we're gonna lose $120,000 per vehicle on average. - They didn't spend any time thinking about it. They thought that it wasn't gonna be a problem. They thought people weren't gonna buy EVs. - Wow. 'Cause they're morons. - Hey, if you like the work that we do, please hit the like button, it really helps us out. All right, so the Franz signed cyber hammer is now available for sale on tesla.com. - We got ours using referral credits, but now Tesla has apparently decided to release it for sale as a limited edition for $700. - Tesla's director of product design, Javier Verdera posted, it's hammer time. - Hammer time. - And it's sold out. - Yeah, I think they only made 800. So yeah, well, I guess a few extra people got together. - Yeah, don't use it on your cyber truck. It says right on the label, not to be used on hard surfaces. - It's just for gym use, this is a gym hammer. So now is the time to buy a Tesla Model Y, I guess. - Yeah, as we reported last week, Tesla just came out with a new variant, the long range rear wheel drive that starts at $44,990 before any incentives. So with the federal $7,500 EV tax credit, it starts at $37,490 with 320 miles of range. - Now, all that is true, and Tesla just announced they're offering 0.99% APR financing through the end of this month. - 0.99%, what's the average auto loan rate in the US right now? - It really depends on your credit rating, but you can easily pay 7% or more. - So how much savings would a 0.99% APR be over a 7% APR? - Well, let's say two people bought identical Model Ys, both cost $39,000, let's say, after the federal tax credit and you know, got a couple upgrades. - Okay. - And both got 60 month loans. - Okay. - The person who gets the 0.99% financing from Tesla pays a monthly payment of $666.49, and over the life of the loan, pays a total of $989.29 in interest. The person who gets the 7% financing, pays a monthly payment of $772.25 a month, and over the life of the loan, pays a total of $7,334.80 in interest. - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold up, wait a minute. - Hold on, you're saying that the 0.99% financing from Tesla could save over $6,000 in interest? - Yep, and it lowers your monthly payment by over $100, but I'm not saying it. Math is, you can do your own calculations, go to any auto loan calculator, I used Investopedia's, the link is in the show notes. Auto financing is one of those things that most people don't think about when buying a car, but it makes a huge impact on the total cost. - So Tesla is essentially giving a huge discount to the car. How are they able to do this financing? - I don't know, I don't know if they have their own financing arm, or if they're gonna make the extra payments or something, and I don't know exactly why they're doing this. Probably to boost sales in this quarter, but I don't know if sales are sluggish or what? - Would this save you more money if you had a longer-term loan? 'Cause I know they offer 72 months. - I just chose 60 months, but yeah, you can choose 72 months, I mean, which you might wanna do to lower your payment. - But usually the problem with a 72 month loan is that you're paying more in interest because it's over a longer timeframe. But now with a lower interest rate, so this is lowering the monthly payment, this is getting more people into these cars. - Totally, and I think that's the problem right now, is we haven't been thinking about these high interest rates for a long time, they've been really low, and so if you got used to that, and then you went into a car dealer or a bank, and you're like, "Wait, how much do I have to pay?" - Right. - And then you're like, "Maybe I can't buy that car." - Wow. - And I think a lot of people just didn't do that math until the day that they were gonna buy it, and then they were like, "Oh crap." - So I mean, I think that this is really exciting, but I'm sure a lot of people don't know about this. I feel like if your friends and family have kind of been like on the fence about buying a Model Y, this might be a good time to be like, "You need to buy this by the end of the month." - Yeah. - All right, time for the Cyber Truck Roundup. - Yeah! - The Cyber Truck Roundup. - Tesla owner Silicon Valley says, "When will FSD come to Cyber Truck? "Traffic has been killing me." - Elon said, "We must focus on full self-driving "for the other 99% of the fleet. "Cyber Truck full self-driving is a few months away." - Oh, I have to drive my truck. - I keep driving my truck home. I mean, I would like it if they just got autopilot working. - That would be good. - Just for the highway. Otto Olson posted this awesome DJ setup using the bed of the Cyber Truck and the power of the Cyber Truck. - I used to be a DJ. I can only imagine if I pulled up to a middle school with my Cyber Truck. - I have accidentally driven past a middle school and disrupted the entire lunch. Like, we're like 300 yards away and you can see the kids go like, "You just blocked on." That is a Cyber Truck. I mean, except that they're 12. So they're going like, "That's a Cyber Truck!" And you just see the pandemonium and then I drive away. And for the rest of the day, it's like, "Sit down, sit down, calm down, calm down." It also turns out that a rigid toolbox slots perfectly into the slots on the bed. - Oh, so doesn't move around. Doesn't move around, at least as much. - Did rigid know about that? - Did you see the memo about this? - Sir, did they like-- - Did Cyber Truck, did Tesla know about this? - I don't know. Or did they just put it at 12 inches or 16 inches and then it just worked out. - And it turns out that the rumors are true. The Cyber Truck does rust. - Look at that. - What? - I'm just kidding. - I'm just kidding. - It's a wrap. (singing in foreign language) - It's a wrap, so they intentionally-- - Yeah, I mean, stainless steel again. But somebody thought that that-- - I wonder if there's any bad journalists out there that are going to be like, "I told you!" (laughing) - Tesla didn't respond to me, come in. - And check out this, mirror rose gold wrap Cybertruck with 30 inch dual tone wheels. (laughing) - Those wheels. - Um, okay. - Yeah. - That's wrappers to the lights. - Interesting. - And according to car scoops and some other sources, the Cybertruck Foundation series is getting two new options. We didn't get these options. Number one is the tactical gray interior. - Tactical gray sounds so cool. - I like the white interior. I mean, you keep the dark seats, but you still have the white, I like that. The next is a new set of 35 inch all season tires that boost range. So for instance, our dual motor with the off-road Goodyear tires has a range of 318 miles. If you switch to the all seasons, you get 340 miles of range. - 22 miles more. - Wow. And by the way, Tesla plans to make about 20,000 foundation series Cybertrucks. I think ours is in the 6,000s. I've heard about the 8,000s are out now. So not that many more that they plan to do before they're gonna cut the $20,000 off the price. And I think when that day happens, there's gonna be a whole lot more people signing up. - Yes, 'cause it's the same basic truck. It just, you don't get the little laser edge foundation series on the side. - There's a couple of other things. I mean, you don't get the full self-driving included. And you don't get a couple of like, we got the nice floor mats included, but yeah, we just wanted to get the truck earlier. And we were willing to pay for it. And look, if you wanna find out about everything Cybertruck, you have to go over to the Cybertruck Owners Club. They help support the show every week. We thank them for that. And you're gonna find out where you are online. You're gonna find out all the Cybertruck news. What's true, what's not? Do they rust? Do they not? That's where you're gonna find this information. So head on over there. You're gonna really be glad you did. And then three hours later, you're gonna be like, "Oh, I was just on there for three hours." - Over on our now let's review channel. We review everything electric. And that includes EV chargers. This week we reviewed the Wolfbox EV charger that looks like it was designed specifically for the Cybertruck. And we tested it with our Cybertruck. So you wanna know about the features, right? How long is the charging cable? Is it well built? How does the RFID card work? How many amps? Safety protections, how to mount it and more. And that's what we do. - That's what we do. - We use it and test it and run it through its paces because there are a lot of EV chargers out there. And we think it's helpful to see all these products, including e-bikes and composters and EV chargers, reviewed by two guys who have been using these products for years. - So go subscribe to now to review today and let us know what you'd like us to review for you. - And over on our other channel, Now We Adventure, we have a new video up this week, our e-bike adventure number four, and what an adventure it was. - We almost didn't make it to our destination. - Yeah, we traveled from Topsfield to New Report, a route that I didn't think was possible, but with our fat tire e-bikes, well, you'll have to tune in to see how we fared. - And thank you to everyone who's joined us over on the Now We Adventure channel so far. I love reading your comments and sharing our routes with you. - E-biking has brought some much needed adventure into our lives, and I hope we inspire you to try e-biking and go on some adventures of your own. - If you do, please share them with us. In fact, coming up later on today's show, we have an e-bike adventurer from Germany, so stay tuned for that. - So cool to think that we might have inspired that. - Yeah. - All right, so last Friday, the break posted on X, the anti-tessel activist break through the police lines and reach the fence of Gigafactory, police seem disoriented. (yelling) - So reports are that one activist and three police officers were injured, and authorities have said that there were several arrests made. S.E. Robinson, Jr. says Tesla Giga Berlin is under siege by an army of black-clad anarchists. Everyone dressed in black is not a coincidence. The spoiled youth of the coming generations are bored, unsocial, seeking attention, and easily manipulated, they're protesting the greenest company on the planet. - And Elon said, "Why are they not jailed "for breaking and entering?" (yelling) - Yeah, yeah, that's (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) - Robinson Monance, this is just weird as hell. Why does Germany have a national protest week? Why do all these people have the same gear? The police are suggesting it is organized by the Vulcan group, but who funds them? Elon said, "Any idea who's orchestrating and funding this?" - Yeah, and Robinson reiterated, "Police are pretty sure it's the Vulcan group, "but who funds them?" So what we're learning is that Tesla set up a temporary perimeter fence, in fact, two of them, around Giga Berlin last week, in preparation for the protest. I don't know how they knew it was gonna happen. Maybe they have a spy in the organization. And Elon went on to say, "Something fishy about this. "That they be that dumb." Andrea Strapa said, "Sooner later, "we'll find out who is behind these puppets." It seems strange that these German activists are interested in Tesla, but they are not about the chemical industries and legacy automakers that pollute enormously and have many factories in Germany. Ian went on to say, "It's Antifa, they hate Elon. "Police know who they all are. "They get arrested and then released." Elon says, "Why do the police "let the left-wing protesters off so easily?" And it is weird because one of their big arguments is that Tesla's Giga Berlin factory uses so much water to make their cars. But let's take a look at actual data, okay? So Tesla Giga Berlin uses 1.8 cubic meters of water per vehicle. You might be like, "That's a lot." But then look at what Volkswagen uses or the industry average. It's more than double. And Elon said, "Yeah, it makes no sense." And then he went on to just be like, "Something super weird is going on "as Tesla was the only car company attacked. "Something strange is going on. "There is more to this than meets the eye. "I wonder who their puppet masters are." Yeah, you can tell that he's just like, "What is doing this?" Because I mean, okay, if you care about the environment, go protest a billion other companies out there, not Tesla. It's like, why are you going after the highest hanging fruit? You know what I mean? Go after the low hanging fruit first, like oil companies, you know, just like the obvious ones. I just... Luckily, because of those fences they put up, I mean, the most damage they did, I think was like they got some paint on one of the cars. So luckily it didn't really have an effect, but I hope it stays that way. So Neuralink just posted. We just passed 100 days since the first participant in our clinical trial received his Neuralink implant. Read our latest progress update here. And Elon said, "Successful 100 days "with first human implant of Neuralink." Well, that's not what I heard. I read that Neuralink is a failure. New York Post said Neuralink says it's first in human brain implant malfunctioned. CNBC said Neuralink's first in human brain implant has experienced a problem. Company says it's bad. Can't put chips in people's brains. That sounds like it's a bad sci-fi movie. Have you seen sci-fi movies, old man? All right, look, Elon responded to this on X. He said this illustrates just how much the legacy media lies to the public. Well, I just don't understand how this works because you say that Neuralink is great, but the New York Post says that it had a malfunction. Well, let's get to that. So this is what the legacy media does, right? They spin the news negative to get eyeballs. Would you have read their articles if they had said, "First human Neuralink brain implant patient says quote." This is a quote from the patient. "Y'all are giving me too much. "It's like a luxury overload. "I haven't been able to do these things in eight years "and now I don't know where to even start "allocating my attention." Uh-oh, luxury overload, overload, overload. Overload, oh, that's bad, that's bad. You should go work for Business Insider, that's perfect. Say he even admitted it. Look, that's an actual quote from Nolan Arba, the first Neuralink patient. So yes, in the weeks following the implant, a few of the 1,024 electrode threads retracted from Nolan's brain, and he had a decrease in what's called BPS or bits per second, which is the standard measure for speed and accuracy of Nolan controlling the computer with his mind. People before the Neuralink were you playing this game as well, and they had certain records in this game. I think that record was like four point something at that time. I think I broke that on my first day doing this. Uh-oh, uh-oh, the threads retracted from his brain. Did they suck his brain out of his skull? Oh no, malfunction, overload, uh-oh. Danger, danger, I guess the ads in his brain are not gonna play properly now. All right, there, you can see the decrease in this chart, right? But the engineers at Neuralink quote, modified the recording algorithm to be more sensitive to neural population signals, improved the techniques to translate these signals into cursor movements and enhance the user interface. These refinements produced a rapid and sustained improvement in BPS that has now superseded Nolan's initial performance. Isn't that incredible? So some of the electrodes did pull out, but they reprogrammed it so it works even better with less electrodes. And yet of course, legacy media goes negative. One of the most amazing new technologies to come along ever, and the legacy media decides to spin it like you did negative so that most people walk away not knowing the truth that this young man's life has been changed for the better by an incredible new innovation. Shame on you legacy media. By the way, Nolan posted this. Also, also, you should have me on your show, Joe Rogan. So yes, Joe Rogan, put him on your show so we can ask him if he's getting ads in his brain or whether this is not making his life different. And I just want to talk about this just a little bit because most people have no idea what Neuralink is. No clue at all. This should be the biggest news story of the decade. And here's why. Because we haven't had Neuralink before. You've been able to put a thing like a cap over your head and kind of assess some of the brain sickness. Why wear a seatbelt? The math speaks for itself. You have a one in 40 chance of being in a crash this year. But wearing a seatbelt reduces your risk of serious harm by 50%. Their rollover crash more than three out of five deaths are from those who weren't wearing theirs. Seatbelts save lives, over 370,000 in fact. Most passengers killed in crashes weren't buckled up. Nobody is above the laws of physics. Buckled up and shipped in a safe. 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From the launch your online shop stage to the first real-life store stage, all the way to the did we just hit a million orders stage? Shopify is there to help you grow. Whether you're selling scented soap or offering outdoor outfits, Shopify helps you sell. Wherever and whatever you're selling, Shopify's got you covered. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com/try. Go to Shopify.com/try now to grow your business. No matter what stage you're in, Shopify.com/try. No, but you haven't had a direct interface between the brain and a computer. What this allows people to do, just for everyone who doesn't know, the first few little easy ones are, if you have your spinal cord severed is, first of all, Nolan, which is, this is his case, he can control a computer now. So when he normally can't move a mouse around with his hand, he can now do it with his brain. And that has allowed him to essentially live his life a little bit nicer than he was before. Yeah. The next part is, if you can take brain signals and turn them into computer signals, then what you could do is implant a different set of chips in your lower motor cortex area. What you can then do is stimulate muscles using external sources to be able to walk again using your own muscles. Oh, and a third one would be pretty soon. They're hoping to restore eyesight. We are so lucky to be living right now, right now. This could have been in your history books, right? You could see a picture of Nolan in your history books and have a little blurb paragraph, but you are able to get primary sources in real time because he is alive right now and he is able to tweet using his brain. He's inviting people to play video games with him. Like, that's amazing. So I just take a minute, think about it, using your brain because there are so many advances that are gonna help so many people and we're just at the very beginning of it. And look, if you wanna share what you've learned here on Now You Know With A Friend, but you don't wanna share the whole hour-long episode, go to our clips channel on YouTube or go to X where we chop these into little bite-sized pieces that are easy to share. Then there's so much more, right? There's Star-based Surfer saying tile works on May 3rd and Elon said, "A super reliable, light, reusable, "heachield is the biggest technical challenge "remaining for Starship." I'm seeing a business. I'm seeing a business I want. I don't tell everybody. I want bathroom tiles that look like that. Oh, I mean, hexagonal tiles, I'm sure it's already in somebody's bathroom, but I just think it's gonna be way more popular when it's space age, you know? Space age tiles, real ablative. You can let a giant fire in your bathroom. Don't do that. Doge designer says literally the best shot ever in the history of space exploration. Elon said, "I love this shot. "A lot more video is coming with flight four. "Bill Nelson says, "Who's ready for a rocket launch, "Starliner?" And Elon said, "Godspeed." And then it didn't launch. Oh, yeah. Eric Berger said, "Here's my deep dive "into why Starliner is seven years late." And Elon said, "Although Boeing got $4.2 billion "to develop an astronaut capsule "and SpaceX only got 2.6 billion, "SpaceX finished four years sooner." Note, the crew capsule design of Dragon 2 has almost nothing in common with Dragon 1. Too many non-technical managers at Boeing. Oh, what a dig. Does he mean by non-technical managers? Does he mean hitmen? I don't know. William Hardwood said, "Starliner CFT, "unexpected behavior of an oxygen relief valve "in the Atlas V's centaur upper stage, "described as a chattering, "has prompted a scrub of this evening's launch. "It's not yet clear when another launch dry will be attempted. "We'll pass long updates as soon as more information is known." And yes, so Starliner was delayed. Mario says, "Record Brazil flooding, "Starlink to the rescue. "Elon sends 100 Starlink devices to the Rio Grande, "dissole region in Brazil to assist them "with their historic flooding." And Elon said, "Glad, Starlink could be helpful "to the people of Brazil." Then he loaded up jets full of them. In fact, a thousand of them, given the terrible flooding in Rio Grande de Sol, Starlink will donate 1,000 terminals to emergency responders and make usage for all terminals in the region free until the region is recovered. I hope the best for the people of Brazil. And the governor of Rio Grande de Sol says, "Thank you Elon Musk for the donation "of a thousand Starlink internet antennas, "with this equipment providing data service "and connectivity throughout the entire calamity period, "it will be immensely valuable "during the reconstruction phase of our state." And Elon said, "You're most welcome." Elon retweeted the SpaceX post of photos from today's Starship Static Fire. So we can get ready for number four. And Elon said, "Starships preparing for space flight." John Kraus says, "When is flight four? "Any new objectives or profile changes "or repeat a flight three?" Elon said probably three to five weeks. Objective is for the ship to get past max heating, or at least further than last time. So max heating is when the rocket is coming back into the atmosphere. Oh, and the heat tiles are getting warm. The heat tiles are getting warm because you're taking something that's moving faster than you've ever seen anything move and slowing it down to something to where it's probably the fastest thing you've ever seen move. (laughs) And Elon said, "What Earth looks like in radio frequency "from the Starlink direct to phone satellites?" Ooh, that's a neat map. You can go on and say our 75th launch from Vandenberg, California. And Eva Fox says, "SpaceX's Starlink has received approval "as an internet service provider for retail consumers "in Indonesia, the country's communication minister, "Boudi Ari Setiati said." Elon said, "This will really help Indonesians "in remote locations that don't have internet today." Lot of space news. Lot of space news. All right, now it's time for Into the Future, sponsored by our friends at Henson Shaving. If you wanna pick up your Henson razor, you can get 100 blades for free. They're still offering this amazing deal after over a year and a half of offering it. Just use the code, now you know, when you check out and make sure that those blades are in your cart. (upbeat music) So we report on VPPs a lot here on TTN. VPPs, of course, are virtual power plants, homes with solar panels and batteries that aggregate their stored power and can feed it back onto the grid to power their neighbors' homes when the grid needs some extra juice. Well, Tesla isn't the only player in this space. In fact, the company with the biggest VPP in the United States is Sunrun. Sunrun has a VPP in California, consisting of 16,200 of their customers' homes. It's called CalReady VPP. And last summer, CalReady delivered 32 megawatts of power to Pacific Acid Electric's grid during evening peak hours. Sunrun expects to double the 8,500 homes that participated last summer. CalReady will support the California grid from four to nine PM May through October. During this five month period, the California Energy Commission may use power from CalReady's members' batteries up to 35 times and Sunrun CEO, Mary Powell, said that, quote, "A typical consumer won't even notice that they're sharing their stored power to bolster the grid while getting compensated for doing so." And the cool thing is that Sunrun primarily uses Tesla Powerwall batteries. So as Sunrun expands its VPP, it helps grow Tesla energy's bottom line. Pretty cool. That is really cool. 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Now, it may be too late to get one for your mom from Mother's Day, but she's still your mom and she'll still love getting it from you so that that bear doesn't get her the next time she's charging. All right, so we have an episode coming up soon on Disruptive Investing, where we talk again with our friends Brett and Kira at Solarola out in Wisconsin. They are the amazing duo that makes these solar powered electric VW camper vans and microbuses. So many cool different projects. - And while we were talking with them, they mentioned that they were thinking of converting a pontoon boat to solar electric. And we were like, wait a minute, we were gonna convert a pontoon boat too. So we decided to turn it into a bit of a competition and see who could build one first and who's will go faster and who's will have more solar and any other competitive thing we can think of. - But well, I think we're already off to a bad start because Brett and Kira already have their pontoon boat. Damn it, they're so fast. - We don't have one yet. So, okay, here's where you guys come in. You lovely, now you know community. We need a pontoon boat so that we can beat Brett and Kira. Okay, so we need to convert it. If someone has an old pontoon boat lying around collecting leaves, maybe the engines died, maybe it sprung a leak or maybe you forgot you had it. Let us know and maybe we'll come pick it up with our cyber truck and tow it back to the workshop and fix it up and convert it. We need to catch up with Brett and Kira. Come on people. So, if you have a pontoon boat that you'd like to see us convert to solar electric, we made a quick and easy Google form to fill out. The link is in the show notes below. It only takes like 30 seconds to fill out. Let us know and maybe your pontoon boat will get a second life as an electric pontoon boat and maybe, just maybe, we'll beat Kira and Brett to the punch, although our odds are not looking very good right now. - And stay tuned to our disruptive investing interview with them that which is coming up soon over on our disruptive investing YouTube channel. - And I feel like, I mean, if someone has a pontoon boat that they even use, but they're like, it's kind of loud and stinky, let us convert it for you. - Sure. - And we'll bring it back to your lake and we'll just come visit you from time to time. We'll have like a little pass we can show like, coming through, coming through. All right, it's time for sunspots. (upbeat music) All right, so let's go to Galita, California, where they've got this Tesla megapacks, 60 megawatts, 160 megawatt hours of Tesla megapacks at grid stores, LLC site in Galita, California. And they're now Santa Barbara County's largest power resource surpassing the local peaker plant. So you know all the time we talk about that batteries can actually replace gas peaker plants. And a lot of people are like, that can't be true 'cause gas peaker plants are really big and these are not that big. So how could that work? - Right, 'cause gas peaker plants have a lot of stuff that you have to do to make the power and batteries are really condensed and small. So that's how you do it. - And so when the grid is calling for power, because like everyone's turning on their AC at once, you can either fire up that gas peaker plant, which takes like a half an hour, or you can just go like with the digital switch and the batteries turn on. It's so amazing. And I just love showing these to more and more people because I think first of all, most of the time you don't see from the air, you just drive by and these are, you know, have fences around them. So you don't even know they're there. - And then you're like, oh, there's a bunch of white boxes. Maybe those are shipping containers. Maybe those are trailers for that people will do work in or something like that. - New storage facility or something. - Oh, it's self storage. No, it is storage, but it's storing energy. - Yeah, and the other part is that as the tweet says here, the battery storage system bolsters grid reliability for the region and supports California's transition to renewables. So you need the batteries to go with the solar and the wind 'cause obviously they don't blow or shine all the time. And this is making life better for Californians, making life better for everybody basically because it makes the grid more resilient. And that's the other piece of this. So many people push back up against EVs. They're like, well, the grid can't take. It's gonna make our grid really brittle. No, it actually makes it really strong. And if you'd like to have your own solar and maybe batteries in your house, but you have lots of questions and you don't know how the tax incentives work and all that stuff, talk to our friends at EnergyPal. They'll set you up at the right installers. They'll do all this work for free because that's what they do. Let them know that Zach and Jesse sent you. All right, it's time for our video contributor stories. Remember, we need your stories to make the show great. It's a community driven show. So send them in to HelloIt, now you know channel.com. Make sure they're two minutes or less. Shoot them in landscape with good audio and no music, you guys have been great at doing that lately. Thank you so much. What do we got this week? - Philip sent us this story about the solar field near Leipzig, Germany that he found while on a bike ride. - Hey Zach and Jesse. So you mentioned in the previous "Now You Know" episode that near Leipzig, my hometown, is a new solar field. So I had to do my own boots on the ground reporting and see it for myself. And in the process, check out the really nice bikeways that lead up to it. So getting to the solar field is such a treat. I mean, look at the video. It's beautiful out there and can't wait to go there again when the bike paths are actually finished at the solar field. It's gonna be really great and the solar field is coming up now. - So let's have a look. (upbeat music) - Man, all this. (upbeat music) - Guys, we found it. - Nice one. Damn, that's huge. What the hell? - That's like a real bummer is a fence and the signs say don't enter. In the end, I found my way around the solar field. Unfortunately, I don't have a drone so I can can't show you the solar field from above. But to maybe give you guys a sense of scale for how big this field actually is, I rode around it and fast forwarded the video so I can fit it in these two minutes. And yeah, I'm going to leave you with my closing remarks. (upbeat music) - Yeah, it all ends here for me anyway. So I think it's gonna be great when it's finished. And yeah, now you know. - That is awesome. - Nice. - I love they didn't let a fence stop when we found a way around and he showed us the solar field and yeah, that is amazing, isn't it? I mean, I just feel like a lot of these solar fields should have bike routes around them and like, that'd be so cool. - I agree. - Thank you for showing us that to fill up. I really appreciate it. All right, it's time for our Patreon bonus stories. We've got so many Patreon bonus stories, investor club bonus stories. We've got our disruptive investing this week, so much more content for you guys to learn about what's really going on in the world, not the bullshit you learned from other sources. So please support us on Patreon. It's only a buck a month for all the bonus stories. We'll see you over there. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - All right, we're back from our Patreon bonus stories. It's time for the poll. What was the poll this week? - What Cybertruck video should we make next? - Oh, that's right. So over on Patreon, we posted like, what do you want? And hundreds of people gave us their ideas. You counted the ones that had the most votes, right? - Yes. - So let's just go through here. So real world range, power outlet tests, steer by wire, can you change a tire at home and camping trip? I wanna do all those right now. But let's, what's the winner? The winner by 1% seeing your vote does count. Power outlet test with power tools, including while charging, which are submitted by many different people. There was a bunch of people that submitted it. - You know, we've done these in the past with the Rivian and the Ford. Now let's add the Cybertruck. - We have the Rivian and we have the Ford and we have the Cybertruck. - Let's go see. - We can do a side by side test. - Let's go do it now. - All right. - Thank you by the way, everybody. I love, I'm just so looking forward to this now. I love that it's community driven. - And we have like a hundred other ideas and we are going to be doing more videos like this. So if you want to vote, you can head over to Patreon, submit your ideas, vote on the polls. We are going to be doing a couple of polls over on YouTube. So because YouTube allows us to run polls. - Also on X. - And we'll do that and we'll do one on X as well. - Speaking of X, it's time for Elon's Xs of the week. And I know a lot of people ask, like, why are you doing this? Why do you do this X part? - This is how you learn about what's going on in Elon's mind, which means all of his companies is exposed to you if you just read it. What we do is we go through and we take out the hundreds of posts that you don't really need and give you the ones we think are either super funny or super relevant. - Elon said, "Actually smart summon "and banish auto park with no one in car coming soon." - Tesla owner Silicon Valley said a joke, two weeks. Elon Musk always delivers, but hello late. - Elon said, "I am pathologically optimistic with time, "have been ever since I was a kid. "My brother, Kimball, would tell me an earlier time "for the bus schedule from school "so that I would actually be there on time, lol." - Thank you, Kimball. - Yeah, for you we might not have gone to school. James Stevens says, "Hey, Elon, "when will FSD solve the last mile problem "when returning home? "I don't park at the curb in front of my house "like a delivery person. "I park in my garage and back in my house "so I can charge. "Can FSD train on my actions and video "after I intervene upon arriving home?" - And Elon said, "Yeah." - Nice. - Cool. - Doge designer says, "Elon Musk attended "an American Express event in Miami last night." - Elon said, "That's my eldest son Griffin, "who is with me at the event?" - Doge designer said, "What if there are more robots "than humans in the future?" - Elon said, "If current trends continue, "robots will far outnumber humans. "Will Optimus fart?" - And Elon said, "A hundred percent." - "Yes, we're gonna have farting optimises." - Elon said, "The new Optimus Hand later this year "will have 22 DOF." And if you're wondering what DOF means, that's degrees of freedom. That's the number of independent axes in which a robot can move. Currently, today it has 11 DOF. - Elon said, "And the actuators will move almost entirely "into the forearm just like how humans work." - Peter Dumontus says, "Why is the news so negative?" - Elon said, "I tried reading the legacy news today "and it just made me feel sad "and the reporting about things I knew about "was almost completely wrong, sad and misleading." - Homar's catalog says, "Exhibit A, "roiders run story about one day off "after a holiday at Tesla's lowest volume factory." - Elon said, "roiders is truly the worst of the worst." - And Doge designer said, "Legacy news." - And Elon said, "Especially roiders." - Rossimus posted this meme. - Elon said, "Hitman jokes aside, "they spend billions on R&D, "but their product evolution is super slow "and sometimes backwards." - Ian says, "Why is Grox so funny?" - Elon says, "It's going to get way funnier. "We are aiming to have, by far, "the funniest AI on Earth. "Laughter is the best medicine." - Massimo says 32 years ago today, Wolfenstein 3D, the first popular game with ray casting was released. - Elon said it was a breakthrough. - I'd love to get game when I was a kid. - Mario says, "Zuck's new $300 million yacht." - Elon says, "Looks cool, to be honest. "My work doesn't allow me time for a yacht, "even if I did have one." - Historic vid says, "When two masters "of different crafts meet." - And Elon says, "Pizza for the win." - Honest says, "I was ashamed of myself "when I realized life was a costume party "and I attended with my real face." That is a quote from Kafka. And Elon said, "Like a true artist." Historic vid says modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 5,500 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost forever. - Elon said something happened much sooner than 200,000 years, less than 10,000 years ago, in my opinion. And Elon said, "This was Optimus not long ago." Stephen King says, "I think Putin and Zelensky "ought to stop killing people "and settle their differences mono-ammono on pay-per-view. "I'd love to see Mr. Z kick Putin's ass." And Elon said, "Decision by single combat is underrated." Elon says, "Worth watching." And this is Robert F. Kennedy's new 30-minute video. I think it was amazing, we should watch it. It was narrated by Woody Harrelson. - Yeah. - Smokeaway says, "The for you algorithm on X "got significantly better in the past few days. "Every time I refresh their new accounts, "tons of posts from small accounts with just a few likes." - Elon said, "algorithm update." - Yeah, I did notice that this week. - DogeZiner said, "AI would be very dangerous if powerful, "but trained to lie to be politically correct." And that was a quote from Elon. - Elon said why it is so important for XAI's grok to succeed. This is a much bigger deal than it may seem. - Insider paper says breaking AstraZeneca withdrawing COVID vaccine worldwide months after admitting that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, the telegraph. - Not the bee says, "And yet if you make a post "on Facebook questioning any vaccine, "your account will be demonetized "and threatened with the ban hammer." - Elon says, "I generally believe in vaccines, "but anything should be subject to debate. "And why is it a bad idea to major in physics?" And Elon says, "Kind of true, "although I still like action movies." George Hott says the reason the internet sucks now is because it has a different ruling class from the '90s and 'thousands. "A subject mindset now versus a citizen mindset then. "Fix this and you fix the internet." - Elon said, "I agree, any ideas?" - Fox News says GOP bill adding citizenship question to 2030 census passes House without a single Democrat. - Elon says, "The Democratic Party's goal is to "disenfranchise U.S. citizens by importing "as many illegal immigrants as possible. "Given the massive influx of illegals from every country "on Earth, 2024 will probably be the last election "actually decided by U.S. citizens." - Stephen Miller says, "Alert, House Democrats "just voted unanimously to give illegals representation "in Congress and the Electoral College. "House seats and Electoral College votes will be added "to areas with the most illegals, including all Biden illegals, "unless Senate passes the bill, invasion by design." And Elon agrees. Elon says, "Just started a supercharger community." So this is on X, we just joined. Seems like a really fun place to talk about superchargers. Markets in mayhem says, "Ah, to be self-made must be nice." And if you look down there on the right, it says that his dad owned an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa. And Elon said, "You are a liar. "There was no emerald mine and I have inherited nothing." World of Engineering says the U.S. government has issued its first severe geomagnetic storm watch in nearly two decades, highlighting the risk from multiple Earth-directed coronal mass ejections and extensive sunspots. And God says, "Not gonna lie, it would be kind of funny "if our civilization just got completely wiped out "by a solar flare right now." Elon said, "SpaceX satellites are feeling "this solar storm, it's big. "Major geomagnetic solar storm happening right now, "biggest in a long time. "Starlink satellites are under a lot of pressure "but holding up so far." And if you're going like, "Oh, that's funny how, like, "almost the entire United States can see "the Aurora Borealis, they're related." Quite, because of the solar storm. This intelligence article came out, "Why has Elon Musk dragging his three-year-old "all over the world?" And Dema said, the quote here, "I only have little X every other week "so I try to spend as much time as possible with him." Yeah, screw Elon, dragging his poor son. He looked so sad, playing with robots and rockets. Getting to, getting probably the best education in the world. All right, it's time for Community Mail Time. ♪ Community Mail Time ♪ And remember, share your stories, photos, and videos with us at a low at nowyouknowchannel.com. Diane sent us this picture of her Ionic 6, and her husband's R1T at the Greensboro, North Carolina Earth Day event. Jeff spotted this VW bus that was converted to all-electric. David saw this Kia EV9 in Dolly City, California. TK spotted these lucid air test vehicles in Leige, Belgium. Bruno sent us this picture of his Cybertruck that he took on a camping trip. Nice. Jerry spotted this Cybertruck being used by Maynard Realty in Winter, Georgia. Make the sign bigger. Yeah, no, no, you can't read it. Don saw this Model Y with some bales of hay in Charlottesville, Virginia. Angelo spotted this rap Cybertruck in Palm Springs, California. Wow. Steven spotted this custom-wrapped Model 3 in Luduk, Alberta, Canada. Wally spotted this EV delivery van in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Tariq found this fleet of EVs being used by the Los Angeles government. And Caroline spotted these two Cybertrucks at the Cars and Coffee event in Lafayette, Colorado. Nice, you can see the high and low. Man, when you're in super high, it feels amazingly high. Yes, I've learned you can actually park the Cybertruck in extract mode, meaning that it has the 16-inch ground clearance. Wow. You just have to make sure before you leave that you check underneath it that no one's crouched under there, yeah. All right, it's time for our EV tip of the week. What do we got here? Don sent us this tip about having multiple EV chargers at home and how to avoid doing some extra electrical work. Hello, Zach and Jesse. My name is Don. I'm proud owner of our 2021 Tesla Model Y. And I have an EV charging tip. When I first got this car, I had an electrician come and add this sub panel here and what was a 50 amp and now a 60 amp circuit for charging. And this wire run that was compatible to handle that. And I had an electrical stove outlet, an EVA 1450, which worked great with the mobile charger, able to charge the Model Y at full speeds in terms of the mobile charger. But when we decided to add a second Tesla to the family, a Model 3, we wanted to be able to charge both at the same time or at least leave them plugged in for scheduled or overnight charging. And I found that not all chargers are the same. The Tesla wall connector does allow circuit sharing. In fact, it's a little unclear in the manual and this is where my tip comes in. But if you look into the electrical codes, at least in North America, you are allowed to have this single circuit with a shared home leg, I think is what maybe what it's called and just tee off and run to the second wall connector since they are configurable and talk to each other and share the load, they won't overwhelm whatever circuit you put it on or the wiring that it's on. So now we can charge both cars at the same time, anytime we want, and if only one is charging, then it can get the full rate for that one car. Thanks for what you do, Zac and Jesse, now you know. - That is a great tip, Don. You were absolutely right. The Tesla Gen3 wall charger allows for sharing. So that's a great way to not have to hire the electrician back, yep. As long as you're comfortable hooking things up, Germans. We get so many texts from Germans. - Oh, you're not allowed to touch the wires, the wires you're not allowed to touch. - Well, we are allowed to touch them here in America. All right, sign for our supercharger reviews. Remember, we have a website with a map and you can go there and post your own reviews, look at the reviews and even if there's one there, you can make another one. Let's see what we got. - Hi there, this is John Donovan again. At the Hope, British Columbia subcharger with 24 to turn the spots to 150 kilowatts, including three pullouts. This is that's what the partner has got. (indistinct) In this door with everything car parts to include food and a grill next door, bathrooms, showers and three pull in trailer spots. Fair people towing and it even has some old-fashioned gasoline stalls for those driving at fees. Actually, it's probably a eight out of 10, it's great. It's a little bit off the highway if you're going west, but it's worth stopping at any correction. Now, you know, welcome to Ronda, Manitoba in the sixth stall, 250 kilowatt supercharger and there's a shell station with a convenience store and it looks like an eatery of some sort goes by and there's also an ESO with some Chester's chicken looks like on the sign over there. Not much in terms of amenities, but the basics are here, so I'd say about a five out of 10. Now, you know. Hey, Zach, hey, Jesse, Brad here from sunny St. Petersburg in the beautiful Tampa Bay, Florida with a supercharger review for you guys. Behind me is a brand new 20 stall Tesla supercharger station. To my left is a Lowe's hardware store and if you keep turning, there's a Walla gas station. If you don't know about Walla, they're amazing. They got a belly, they got coffee, they got milkshakes, hashtag, gotta have a walla, hashtag for the best, but I think what I'm most excited about with this supercharger's location is not only is it brand new, but it features magic, which is exciting for me because I drive an F-150 Lightning. So obviously it's super convenient for me to be able to charge my pickup while I wait for four to send me my max adapter. As far as I know, this is the only supercharger location that features the magic dock and super easy to use. And it's so new, it literally just showed up in the app yesterday, so, but I think I would give it a nine out of 10 simply because it's in the lowest parking lot, which is super convenient for, you know, contractors who are driving new electric trucks, cyber trucks and fans. But it does seem like obvious oversight that there's no trailer full-through stalls, but I think that's minor. Anyway, I'm excited about it. I wanted to share the news and, now you know, thanks guys. - So we're on I-80, the turnpike in Ohio, and we have a eight-stall supercharger, 250 kilowatts, you can see that right there, which is backwards. And we also have a side right there, which I don't know if that's for like trailers or whatnot, and I'm entirely certain, maybe for other cars or whatever. But it's on mile marker 170 going westbound. I think it's the same mile marker on the eastbound side I'm not entirely sure, but really nice. You can eat, get gas. There's the gas station right back there. And this is the place where you can eat right here. Two or three restaurants inside, so I would definitely give it a 10 out of 10. There you go, now you know. - Hello world. This is Holger from Austria again. And here at Rügerwach, supercharger in Croatia. It has six dolls, we too. There are some coffee to go and some slot machines. You have to pay one euro for parking here. You can eat at this hotel over there. And there's also a little shop. So it's not far from the highway. So I give you six out of 10, now you know. - Thank you so much, that helps. - Awesome. - It really helps when you're going to go to a supercharger to kind of know what to expect and to know if it has the amenities you want. So thank you for doing those guys. All right, what do we got for new superchargers in the world? Are there none this week? Oh, no, there are sounds. We have the eight stall in Castle Germany. We have number 28 in Denmark, the 16 stall in Belund Denmark. The eight stall version four in Ursen Solen Germany. We have number 207 in Germany. We have the eight stall version four in Alberhausen Germany. We have number 83 in Pennsylvania. It's the eight stall in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. We have number 58 in Georgia, the 28 stall version four in Covington, Georgia. - Wow. - The six stall in Ninggu, China. The four stall version two in Hangzhou, China. Number 74 in New Jersey is the 12 stall in Woolwich Township, New Jersey. Number 2062 in China is the two stall version two in Guangzhou. The eight stall version four in Gloucester, Southbound UK. The eight stall version four in Gloucester, Gloucester. However, you pronounce it in Europe, Northbound UK. - It's not Europe, it's England. - I'm sorry, yes. - Right. - Number 104 in Taiwan is the six stall in Yilan, Taiwan. Not Yilan, Yilan. - Number 92 in New York, number 2265 in the USA is the 12 stall in Lagrangeville, New York. - And number 138 in the UK, number 1,207 in Europe. - But they're not in Europe? - They're not in Europe. And number 6,366 in the world is the eight stall version four supercharger in Penhale, UK. - Nice. And I was thinking about this today, Jesse. We started the show nine years ago, whatever. What you and I have accomplished in making over 400 shows of TTN together couldn't be accomplished by two people in a year. - What do you mean? - All right, so I mean, if you spent every day doing the work that we do to produce TTN, the writing, the recording, the editing, every day of the year, you still could not create 401 shows because it takes over a day to make each show. Isn't that crazy? - Yeah, and I mean, remember, we can't do this show without your support because it's not just two guys. You might be like, oh, I can Jesse, no. We have Brent, our super lead producer and editor, master of editing. Then we have our producer, Julie, who sets everything up for us. Then we have a whole team of editors around the world who take this footage. As soon as I stop hitting recording, we're gonna take cards out of the camera, we're gonna bring it down to Brent. 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Their rollover crash more than three out of five deaths are from those who weren't wearing theirs. Seatbelts save lives, over 370,000 in fact. Most passengers killed in crashes weren't buckled up. Nobody is above the laws of physics. Buckled up and shifting to safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation. How dangerous is it to unwrap a burger at 40 miles per hour? More so than you think. In a little over two seconds, your car can travel slightly more than 117 feet, which is the same length as 20 bicycles. Anything that distracts you while driving is dangerous. That's why driving while texting can be deadly too. So put it down, it can wait. Don't drive distracted, shifting to safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation.
