[SPEAKER_04]: Hey everybody, I'm Zach, and I'm Jesse.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're watching Tesla Time News Episode 644, a night.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Tesla just released their Q2 supercharging data and it was their best quarter ever.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so we're looking at that medium green portion of the bottom line and I mean, wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, 17% year over year growth, two terawatt hours of electricity delivered across 60 million charging sessions in three months.
[SPEAKER_04]: 266 kilowatt hours of electricity delivered per plug.
[SPEAKER_04]: per day.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I see that the wait time at Superchargers drop below 0.5%.
[SPEAKER_04]: Plus Tesla added 2700 new Superchargers stalls in just three months.
[SPEAKER_04]: And EV drivers who charge at Superchargers from April through June didn't burn 246.7 million gallons of gasoline.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[UNKNOWN]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Which means that during this time of expensive gasoline, even if you don't drive in electric car, Tesla made it cheaper for you to drive your gas car.
[SPEAKER_04]: How is that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Supplying to me in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's good.
[SPEAKER_00]: You sure you want to smart guy in the world?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So if you have a Model 3 Highland or a Cybertruck, then you already have this feature.
[SPEAKER_01]: But everybody else, listen up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla software update 2026.20.6 is rolling out now was first spotted on June 29th, and it has a feature called Blind Spot Warning, while parked.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla's release notes say, if you attempt to open a door while an approaching object is detected in your blind spot, for example, a bicyclist approaching from behind, a chime sounds, and your door will not open upon initial button press.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait a short time, press the button the second time to override the warning.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know this feature may not seem like a big deal, but especially for bicyclists and e-bikers like us, it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the statistics spared out on average, 1,700 door-related injuries that lead to emergency room visits happen to bicyclists every year.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's 1,700.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, door-related accidents accounting for 10 to 27% of bike-related crashes in major cities.
[SPEAKER_04]: So now most Tesla models including Model Y Model 3 and 2021 plus S as an X's will get this feature.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you first.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my motto.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla Insurance has filed the paperwork to start offering auto insurance in Washington State.
[SPEAKER_04]: The proposed start date is September 1st of this year.
[SPEAKER_04]: This would be Tesla Insurance is 16th State.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla Insurance will use safety score and safety score with FSD supervised to adjust the premium every month.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I know a lot of you might be asking like, well, what does that even mean?
[SPEAKER_04]: But Tesla and independent analysts both show.
[SPEAKER_04]: The Tesla insurance saves customers on average 20 to 40% on auto insurance premiums.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a savings of about $420 to $840 per year compared to Geico, progressive state farm in all state.
[SPEAKER_04]: Drivers with a safety score of $95 in above can see savings of $500 to $900 per year.
[SPEAKER_04]: The most common are good drivers, those with safety scores of 85 to 94.
[SPEAKER_04]: They typically save $300 to $600 per year.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just to note, Tesla insurance is available in California, but they are not allowed to use safety score to set their premium.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's the only state that doesn't allow it at the moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, probably Massachusetts too, if they ever allow it.
[SPEAKER_04]: They will.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be a few years before they get to the level.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have no choice.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, Tesla posted this, looking forward to the long weekend.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that is, I don't know what they mean by this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that this is the real dog.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw I was scrolling and I saw that there's the world record holder Dashound.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's no way that's a real dog that they are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: How did it generate such a wide image?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think there's some artists somewhere who has to just draw it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so why are they looking forward to the long weekend?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, obviously it's the fourth July.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I think it has to at the fact that this dog is stretched a little longer than the most weiner dogs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, then a regular model, why?
[SPEAKER_04]: Because remember, last show, we talked about the fact that their head of engineering, Lars Morave, said that July 7th, they're going to have some announcement taking place in Texas.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe it's about the Model YL being produced there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So David Moss spotted this made in Texas land of the free home of the brave rapt cyber cab driving around Texas.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's so cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: So those wheel coverings there and everything they wrap those as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I mean Tesla wrapped this cyber cab because obviously no one had owned it.
[SPEAKER_04]: No one bought the cyber cab because he can't buy a cyber cab.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and then they wrapped it with this cool wrap.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I mean look at the front.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's got, you know, teeth.
[SPEAKER_04]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, stop for some SpaceX news.
[SPEAKER_04]: The Philippines has become the first country in Southeast Asia to commercially launch Starlink direct to sell through a mobile network.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and on Patreon, bone source today, we're going to talk about why that is super important.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm, you want to update on that sea turtle at Starbase?
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon reposted this from Starbase, Texas earlier this month.
[SPEAKER_04]: The city of Starbase was excited to support residents, local fishermen, SpaceX volunteers, and sea turtle ink.
[SPEAKER_04]: In rescuing 266 pound logger head, Arlin from Boca Chica Beach, Jettis,
[SPEAKER_04]: and released into the Gulf.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, she was jammed in there in the rocks.
[SPEAKER_04]: They had to pull her out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, humans are so nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: And no, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: We turtle'll do that for us.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon reposted this from SpaceX teams recently completed build an acceptance testing of our 1,000th Merlin 1D engine for Falcons first stage.
[SPEAKER_04]: With Falcons reusability recovering these engines has enabled continued reliability enhancements making Merlin one of the most reliable rocket engines ever manufactured.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a lot of engines.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, we've got the Patreon poll where people will ask what do you think Tesla means by this X-post?
[SPEAKER_04]: And 98% said the beginning of Model YL variant production in the U.S. A couple people thought it was just about how it talks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow!
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a pretty conclusive post!
[SPEAKER_04]: It is!
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow!
[SPEAKER_04]: One of the most conclusive we've had.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, it's time for Elon's X's of the week!
[SPEAKER_04]: And Elon posted this, I guess he was kicked off a path of exile, too, for performing too many actions too fast.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said I will take it as a compliment.
[SPEAKER_04]: Data posted USAID ran a secret fake Twitter to spark revolution in Cuba, funded Venezuela and opposition politicians directly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Got expelled from Bolivia after WikiLeaks, cables revealed the ambassador admitted aid was hidden by our use of third parties, all documented all sourced.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's been a lot of tips to the iceberg.
[SPEAKER_04]: There has.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm waiting for, I can't wait to see the iceberg.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Elon reposted this from XAI Memphis.
[SPEAKER_04]: Earlier this year, SpaceX acquired XAI, now SpaceX AI, which operates the Colossus data centers in Memphis.
[SPEAKER_04]: As SpaceX continues to invest in the area, SpaceX is offering our neighbors in the Memphis area, no upfront hardware costs on residential starlink kits for new customers and a discount on home internet service plans for both new and existing customers.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Elon said half price starlink for people in the Memphis region.
[SPEAKER_04]: Andrew Kerr said speaking of hoarding wealth, Rokana's two young children are the proud owners of three private golf courses in Ohio, where member initiation fees run upward to $45,000.
[SPEAKER_04]: Connus Children still in elementary school, earned up to $2 million from their golf courses in 2024, and I actually went and read the report that is true.
[SPEAKER_04]: He actually reported that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe they just really like golf.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like Wally though.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure they do.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you made $2 million a year, I'd love it.
[SPEAKER_04]: But elementary school is kind of young to own a golf course.
[SPEAKER_04]: And to be playing golf.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you legally own a golf course if you're under 18?
[SPEAKER_04]: Didn't know you could.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he launched that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon posted this is how USAID spent your tax dollars.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Those are terrorists.
[SPEAKER_00]: Elon's kind of nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice terrace with R-P-G. Yeah, seven, that's fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, did they get that for free?
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon then posted, walking the Optimus Production line in Fremont.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Optimus.
[SPEAKER_04]: Optimus.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fremont.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, baby.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon posted, NewerLink has solved through Dura Electrode implantation.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a very big deal as it greatly improves the safety and ease of interfacing with the brain.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Wall Street Journal posted on X-Claiming SpaceX showed investors a prototype handheld AI device, slimmer than an iPhone, running a proprietary OS with an X-AI integration, a SpaceX phone, and Elon said utterly false.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, it's not just other YouTubers who are making these like, but like, you will not believe what Elon Musk is working on in SpaceX.
[SPEAKER_04]: He is making a phone.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will not believe it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also the Wall Street Journal.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dr. Jack was asking about Tesla's Optimus V3 demo.
[SPEAKER_04]: He thinks it's coming out really soon and all sorts of positive things.
[SPEAKER_04]: But Elon said, no Optimus production will be extremely slow at first.
[SPEAKER_04]: As everything is new, it's not like making a car.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said, free money, housing, et cetera, acts as a massive financial forcing function to draw illegals to America and Europe.
[SPEAKER_04]: The US Office of Personal Management Posted, remember when Elon took over Doge and they were doing paper retirement for a personnel of the US government in a giant limestone mine?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, well yesterday marks the last day of paper retirement processing in the federal government We're turning the page on a decades-old process and embracing a full digital future for federal retirement services by modernizing how retirement applications are processed.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are delivering and he launched said nice work Yeah, they had hired so many contractors over the years to write bad code and things that didn't work and Doge went in just fired them and wrote it themselves, but we should get mad about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just remember it did
[SPEAKER_04]: You know all these federal employees now they they don't have to wait a whole year to wait a six months to retire while their paperwork is being taken care of crazy may musk Elon's mom said the left media has been hateful and dishonest about Elon for 20 years Now they have up to their game.
[SPEAKER_04]: There must be lots of money coming their way They depend on their readers and viewers being stupid and crazy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fortunately, we have X angry mom Elon posted or well was a genius and he posted this of animal farm
[SPEAKER_04]: Does anyone ever read Animal Farm?
[SPEAKER_04]: You should read it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did read the book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't see the movie, the movie they flipped it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what a goofy little gap that is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: A beautiful supercharger today, I want to point out the Test Logist Commission, Germany's first V4 supercharger site in Freeberg, Goonel Fingon, only the second one in Europe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Same thing right.
[SPEAKER_04]: That can't be true.
[SPEAKER_04]: We report on V4 stalls going online throughout Europe every week.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, so those are V4 stalls, but they aren't actually powered up to the full 500 kilowatts per stall.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're usually only powered with a V3 cabinet for 250 kilowatts of charging speeds.
[SPEAKER_04]: No more way, I got the first one of these true V4s in June, this is the second interesting.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so I guess they're gonna be upgrading the cabinets
[SPEAKER_04]: All right time for some supercharger reviews.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see what people have found out there in the world of supercharging
[SPEAKER_02]: Good afternoon, Zach and Jesse.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is Philip again on the way from Italy, Austria, through Germany.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are now in Germany in Bruxelles, where we charge at 190 kilowatts.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very recent charger arranged two by two, so that even BMWs Mercedes and other brands can charge with the shark plug on the other side.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a Chinese restaurant behind me, or what used to be a Chinese restaurant, but it's closed, and we are a bit hungry, so I give this 7 out of 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, you know, bye-bye.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hi, second Jesse I'm Mike, and I'm the Will Us Lake Supercharger, 250 KW, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and chargers, there's a winters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Golf door, have your stuff, and that, and the Walmart, that's where everyone will probably go, take a watch or a break, but it's pretty just one's about seven out of ten, now you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much for doing Supercharger reviews.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've got a map on our website where you can upload your own and see everybody else's.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, I forgot to put the new Supercharger Zint on Tuesday, so let's do them now, all right?
[SPEAKER_04]: What do we got?
[SPEAKER_04]: We got the eight-stall version four in Warren Bull, Victoria, Australia, number 246 in Florida, the 12th-stall in North Waterdale, Florida.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 73 in Maryland is the 20-stall in District Heights.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 170 in Norway, the 8-stall in Etna in Norway.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 107 in Italy is the 12-stall in Settagnola, Italy.
[SPEAKER_04]: The 8-stall version 4 in Kanab, Utah.
[SPEAKER_04]: The 12-stall in Malibu, California.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 64 in Colorado, the 8-stall in Rey, Colorado.
[SPEAKER_04]: An expansion from 12 to 16 stalls, federal way Washington, number 222 and the UK, 20 stall in Karta, an expansion from six to 10 stalls in Urdney, Turkey, a 12 stall in Udavala, Sweden.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number nine in Iceland is a six stall in Fasvagor, Iceland.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 20 in Kentucky, the eight-stall in Caves City, an expansion from 12 to 28 stalls in Haverwood, Slatut, Norway, an expansion from 8 to 14 stalls in Edsbrook, Sweden, an expansion from 16 to 24 stalls in Haukstorpe, Sweden, an expansion from 12 to 16 stalls in Venre, Netherlands.
[SPEAKER_04]: an expansion from 8 to 16 stalls in Istanbul, in Turkey.
[SPEAKER_04]: Another expansion from 12 to 20 stalls in Stimcare, Norway, and 8 stalls version 4.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is operated by Sammy Charge in Sandy, Utah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 11 in Arkansas, 16 stall in Little Rock.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 62 in Oregon is the 8 stall version 4 in Florence, Oregon, and expansion from 3 to 6 stalls in Huffin, Iceland.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 47 in Utah is the four-stall version 3 operated by car charging pros in Garden City Utah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 125 in New York, the four-stall operated by pure energy in Grand Island.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 671 in California is the eight-stall in Milipetus, California.
[SPEAKER_04]: Number 156 in Australia, the eight-stall in Helledon, Queensland.
[SPEAKER_04]: And number 24 in Maine, number 3,151 of the USA, number 8,769 of the world is the eight-stall in Bitterford, Maine.
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