Tesla & SpaceX investor since 2016 🇪🇺 1M+ km of real diesel vs EV data. FSD in Europe, EU politics, xAI/Grok. Calling out bots and "experts".
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17 years, 4 cars, 1,026,976 km, all mine and all real numbers, not brochure values. The two Peugeot diesels burned 35,280 litres over 659,000 km, that is almost 30 tonnes of fuel, and at today's €2.392/l in Bavaria it would cost €84,389. The same 659,000 km in my 2019 Model 3 would cost about €42,000 charged at home, losses included. A short thread for everybody who still thinks EVs are "too expensive" to run 🧵
Danish drivers already use it every day, now Danish motor journalists call it the best assistant on the market, so the big car countries still "evaluating" it could try one test drive instead of one more study.
Danish motor journalists have named Tesla FSD (Supervised) the most impressive driving assistant on the market, and gave it the Innovation Prize at Car of the Year 2027 in Denmark 🇩🇰 on 10 November.
Sold in Europe as Tesla Assisted Driving, the jury said it's intuitive and works remarkably well in practice, but noted it still makes mistakes and is expensive.
Bil Magasinet drove it through some of Copenhagen's worst traffic areas and said it handled them really well.
Denmark has had it since June through recognition of the Dutch approval. It's now live in the Netherlands and recognised in 10 more EU countries, with Finland the latest, while Germany is still reviewing. It's still not approved in Great Britain 🇬🇧.
It looks like Danish motor journalists judged it on how it drives, not on the headlines.
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Iridium asked the FCC to make SpaceX "coordinate first", the FCC checked the numbers, found an impact of no more than 0.4% and said no, a small lesson for every regulator that lets the incumbent's lawyers set the pace 😂
The FCC granted 36 SpaceX gateway earth stations
The Space Bureau approved every application in Order DA 26-1225, covering the 19.4-19.6 GHz downlink and 29.1-29.5 GHz uplink bands for SpaceX's V3 operations
SpaceX showed it can share the band without causing unacceptable interference, even collocated with an Iridium feeder link site. The calculated impact is no more than 0.4%
Iridium had petitioned to deny all 36 applications, then asked the FCC to require coordination prior to operations. The FCC dismissed that condition
FCC: docs.fcc.gov/public/attachme…
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Tonight SpaceX starts its first attempt to catch both stages with the tower arms, the booster minutes after liftoff and the ship about a day later. In Europe the window opens just before midnight, so for a lot of us it is coffee instead of sleep 🚀
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Seven years ago Elon said the new Gigafactory would be "near the new airport", and Germany laughed because that airport was a running joke for being years late. Tesla then turned a pine forest into a working Model Y plant while the "experts" were still explaining why it would never happen 😂 Now the "impossible" factory is what people point at when they ask if Europe can still build fast.
On this day in 2019: Elon announced Tesla's first European Gigafactory on stage at a German car awards show, sitting next to VW's CEO.
His only details that night: "It's in the Berlin area, and it's near the new airport."
Then: an announcement.
Now: Giga Berlin has built 7,000 Model Ys in a single week, with a team of nearly 12,000.
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Mercedes just froze every new investment in its German plants because a production hour here costs up to five times more than in Eastern Europe, so the "Made in Germany" star may soon be "Made in the EU", which, funny enough, is exactly what the single market was built for 😅
MERCEDES ZIEHT IN DEUTSCHLAND 🇩🇪 DIE NOTBREMSE!
Der Vorstand stoppt alle weiteren Investitionen in die deutschen Standorte. Ein Konzernsprecher hat das bestätigt.
✅ Grund: keine Einigung mit Betriebsrat und IG Metall über niedrigere Kosten
✅ Eine Produktionsstunde kostet hier laut Mercedes bis zu fünfmal so viel wie in Osteuropa
✅ Werksschließungen werden jetzt konkreter geprüft
❌ Beschlossen ist noch keine Schließung, Standorte sind nicht genannt
Ohne Einigung sollen künftige Modelle nur noch im Ausland gebaut werden.
Tesla baut in Grünheide weiter aus, Mercedes legt die Heimat auf Eis.
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SpaceX painted "DON'T PANIC" next to S42 on a ship that could launch on Friday the 13th, the same words the Roadster showed on its screen on the way to space. The only people who really need that advice are the "experts" who said Starship would never fly 😏
Ship 42 is now being transported to the pad to be stacked onto Booster 22 ahead of Flight 15, NET Friday the 13th!
@NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
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Back then the robot snake charger was the "scary" part of the interview 😂 Now the cars drive themselves to the charger, and the scary part is reserved for the rest of the industry.
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Thursday data from Blanca, my 2025 Model Y Long Range: 30,000 km so far. At my home power price that works out to about €5 per 100 km. Every few weeks another "expert" explains that driving electric is a luxury for rich people. Supercharging on long trips costs more, sure, so this is the home charging number, not a magic one. Winter tyres are on now, so the next months will look worse, and I will show that too.
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Spain and Portugal learned what "grid stability" means the hard way, when the voltage control of a whole peninsula leaned on manually switched reactors and the lights went out 😅 Europe's own expert report says the stabilisation was too slow, and fast stabilisation is exactly the job a Megapack does.
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In Europe today is Armistice Day, and the same quiet story plays out in every mountain valley and island where fibre will never arrive. Starlink turned "you live too far away" into a normal internet connection, no politician's broadband plan needed. And the soldiers who depend on it most right now are the ones defending Ukraine 🇺🇦
Home in rural Oklahoma is where this veteran and his wife enjoy the things that matter most.
With Starlink, they can stream, study, and stay connected with family and friends, reliably and seamlessly.
Discover their story this Veterans Day.
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Masa had the choice between a quarter of Tesla and office desks with "community adjusted EBITDA", and he picked the desks 🙃
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Texas now has more Tesla robotaxis registered than Waymo ones, and a good part of them are Cybercabs with no steering wheel at all 😂 Meanwhile in Europe we throw a party because one more country lets a human with both hands ready use a "supervised" assistant.. Same company, same software, two different centuries. The Texas DMV counts cars, Brussels still counts meetings. One day a Cybercab will cross the Atlantic in a container and wait at the port for a comitology "opinion".
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BREAKING NEWS! 🇫🇮 Finland is in: Tesla Europe just announced Tesla Assisted Driving is approved there, rollout begins soon. Traficom had been "assessing" the Dutch RDW approval since June, the Baltics moved first. That makes 11 EU countries, while Germany, France and Italy are still "reviewing" (source: Tesla Europe).
