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[Huntn]

SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars program

Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars

www.theguardian.com

The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.

 

[RobF]

These are simple Google search’s. And they aren’t Tesla sources.

Solar powered, renewable clean energy. The fine folks at Tesla are doing fine work. And the fine folks in Australia are smart enough to understand the value. Visionary folks.

That isn't even subtle trolling at this point.

There is nothing particularly special or unique about 'megapacks', apart perhaps from the remarkably basic name.

There are multiple other providers, such as CATL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATL - who are stronger here, which is probably why Tesla are supplied by them.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

You know who really understood the how vacuums worked? No, not Dyson and those kind of vacuums. I'm talking about Nikola Tesla.

When you look at accomplishments in a vacuum, they can look more impressive than they actually are. The entire post below only looks at things in a vacuum, because Musk's accomplishments aren't that impressive when you compare them to the accomplishments of other people and companies.

“Tesla storage deployments more than double to 31.4 GWh in 2024
Tesla expects its battery storage installations will jump at least 50% this year.”

“Tesla Megapack and Powerwall battery storage deployments jumped to 31.4 GWh last year, up from 14.7 GWh in 2023, the company said in an earnings presentation Wednesday. The company expects storage deployments will grow at least 50% this year.

“We’re trying to ramp output of the stationary battery storage as quickly as possible,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during an analyst conference call.

Gross profit at Tesla’s energy generation and storage segment increased to $2.6 billion in 2024 from $1.1 billion the year before as revenue climbed 67% to $10.1 billion from $6 billion in the same period, according to Tesla.”

Tesla storage deployments more than double to 31.4 GWh in 2024

Tesla expects its battery storage installations will jump at least 50% this year.

www.utilitydive.com

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Apparently, Sendai woke up one day recently and thought, "I need to do more SaintForLife style pointless and nonsensical spamming, because I can't speak for myself, just like SaintForLife couldn't."

“As detailed in a report from Nikkei this week, Tesla plans to supply 142 Megapack units to support a 548 MWh storage project in Japan, set to become one of the country’s largest energy storage facilities. The project is being overseen by financial firm Orix, and it will be located at a facility Maibara in central Japan’s Shiga prefecture, and it aims to come online in early 2027.

The deal is just the latest of several Megapack deployments over the past few years, as the company continues to ramp production of the units. Tesla currently produces the Megapack at a facility in Lathrop, California, though the company also recently completed construction on its second so-called “Megafactory” in Shanghai China and is expected to begin production in the coming weeks.

READ MORE ON TESLA MEGAPACKS: Tesla Megapacks help power battery supplier Panasonic’s Kyoto test site

Tesla’s production of the Megapack has been ramping up at the Lathrop facility since initially opening in 2022, and both this site and the Shanghai Megafactory are aiming to eventually reach a volume production of 10,000 Megapack units per year. The company surpassed its 10,000th Megapack unit produced at Lathrop in November.

During Tesla’s Q4 earnings call last week, CEO Elon Musk also said that the company is looking to construct a third Megafactory, though he did not disclose where.

Last year, Tesla Energy also had record deployments of its Megapack and Powerwall home batteries with a total of 31.4 GWh of energy products deployed for a 114-percent increase from 2023.

Other recently deployed or announced Megapack projects include a massive 600 MW/1,600 MWh facility in Melbourne, a 75 MW/300 MWh energy storage site in Belgium, and a 228 MW/912 MWh storage project in Chile, along with many others still.“

Tesla Megapacks chosen for 548 MWh energy storage project in Japan

Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries have been selected to back an energy storage project in Japan, coming as the latest of the company’s continued deployment of the hardware. As detailed in a report from Nikkei this week, Tesla plans to supply 142 Megapack units to support a 548 MWh storage...

www.teslarati.com

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

“Musk doesn’t follow through on most things” might be one of the most ignorant statements I’ve seen in a long while

You clearly don't read you own posts, including this one.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Confirmation @Sendai does not read most of the posts...

I said the same thing before reading your response. The rest of your response is brilliantly witty.

...and links from here which document an unending torrent of actual ignorance from people like Trump and Musk, or his own posts and links for that matter.

But hey, maybe @Sendai posted that from a full self driving robotaxi zooming along at 200km/h through an underground tunnel on the way to take the hyper loop home where he'll check how his robot assistant is doing.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

These are simple Google search’s. And they aren’t Tesla sources.

Solar powered, renewable clean energy. The fine folks at Tesla are doing fine work. And the fine folks in Australia are smart enough to understand the value. Visionary folks.

You are correct in that there are fine folks at Tesla doing fine work. You are completely wrong that Musk is one of those fine folks actually doing that fine work.

Tesla was doing well before Musk came along. Musk arrived at the same time tax rebates for electric cars happened, which was a boost to Tesla that had nothing to do with any vision or brilliance on Musk's part.

Tesla is no longer the top dog in electric car innovation and it's been losing market share, mostly because of Musk's actions.

 

[RobF]

I said the same thing before reading your response. The rest of your response is brilliantly witty.

That was the edited version, the first thing I typed was pretty much exactly the same thing you said.

Although I think I missed a few things. Could also have said, "while paying for it all through X, the everything app."

To be fair, I couldn't say "carrying your Boring flamethrower to liven up parties and defend against zombies," because he did actually do that one. But then, "creating things that catch fire," does seem to be one thing they are good at; cars (https://www.tesla-fire.com/), spaceships (https://www.theguardian.com/science...explodes-texas-elon-musk-mars-project-setback), 'megapacks' (https://www.theguardian.com/austral...combe-energy-storage-site-project-rockhampton) ...

 

[Dragon]

Musk is a businessman - he is no inventor

He sees and buy into technology invented by others and then cut corners on quality controll in order to stay in front of competitors which has led to people dying!

His customer service is abysmal and there are several cases where people has had to take him to court to get things fixed and the danish transport authorities have multiple cases pending. And his cars and battery systems are losing market shares daily due to these problems. We have had at least 5 fires causes by his home battery system in Denmark and lots of problems with newer teslas, BYD is grapping the market as is