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Sixteen billion ordinary kilometres, still supervised

Tesla’s safety page showed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) past 16 billion kilometres in early May. In January Elon Musk had named that figure as the training data needed for safe unsupervised driving.

Brookshire starts Megapack 3

On 6 August Tesla’s Megapack account said Megapack 3 is rolling at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas. Designed capacity is 50 GWh a year. Each unit holds about 5 MWh.

Austin opens the two-seater on 3 September

Tesla posted Exclusive Access: Cybercab on 22 August. Invite-only in Austin on 3 September. RSVPs close 30 August at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Livestream for everyone else. 103 Wh/km, 48 kWh, 1,412 kg.

Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall

Tesla told JPMorgan in August that the Optimus Gen 3 design is finalized, the supply chain is essentially locked, and a production line is going into Fremont’s old Model S/X facility.

Sparks inaugurates the Semi plant on 24 September

Tesla Semi posted on 24 August that the dedicated factory in Sparks, Nevada, will be inaugurated on 24 September. The 158,000-square-metre plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year. The first high-volume Semi left the line in April.

Tesla told JPMorgan v15 runs on AI4

At Fremont in August, Tesla called FSD v15 a step-change the size of v13 to v14 and said the AI4 computer already in the car can run it unsupervised.