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SpaceX to IPO soon?!

Elon says, under a post from Eric Berger who argues how it will take a lot of cash to design and build the satellites and launch the rockets to deploy data centers in space:
"As usual, Eric is accurate".

This created a lot of buzz, I’m keeping an eye on what Elon says about it next. We do know Elon has said previously that Tesla shareholders are going to be able to get in before others in some kind of a preferred manner, but we’re not sure how much room he will actually have to do that.

The latest SpaceX valuation inside the inner investors/employees circle is said to have been at around $800B, and it seems estimations for the IPO are already going beyond a trillion, making it easily the largest IPO valuation ever.

I’m curious about your thoughts, so let’s run a quick poll among our readers:

Since Elon always says the “most entertaining outcome is the most likely” due to us potentially living in a simulation… then I’m pretty sure the stock tricker $SEX is still available.

It’s short for SpacEX, the company that previously went by Space Exploration Technologies Corp, of course.

Since we’ve got more great posts to share from Elon this week, I’ll go for it:

Tesla Diner also set up a mini racetrack around the New Model Y Performance for kids to race the mini Cybertrucks around:

PS! If you’re liking the Tesla Space newsletters, you’ll love the Tesla Space Insider membership.

Biggest news this week is certainly the two nobody-inside Tesla Robotaxis driving in Austin: one on short video here and the other one here.

Elon comments:

I managed to catch another fitting post from Tesla around this right on my timeline there 👆 .

In fact, this video was quote posted by a lot of Tesla members, from Tom Zhu to high-level Tesla engineers (including Ashok saying “And so it begins!”), which means it was likely also a high internal milestone. Even Tesla official account hyped with a "The fleet will wake up via over-the-air software update" post.

This now happened quite a few weeks before Elon’s latest timeline of “drivers out before end of year”. Let’s see if they can remove the safety drivers from the whole fleet.

Interestingly, the spot in Austin is very near the exact same spot where the first-ever robotaxi with a safety driver was spotted. And it yet again came from an account that hadn’t been posting on X before — makes me think these are “leaked” on purpose by Tesla employees.

Anyway, the cars are followed by a chaser car, probably to intervene if there’s any trouble. Standard procedure for the start of going fully driverless.

Meanwhile, on Waymo, Elon comments: "Waymo never really had a chance against Tesla. This will be obvious in hindsight."

For context, Waymo just announced it completed 14 million paid robotaxi trips in 2025… so while it’s a lot harder (or near impossible) for Waymo to scale up as massively as Tesla can, and even harder to do so profitably, it is the largest robotaxi fleet out there today with ~2.5k robotaxis on the road.

And on Luminar, the LiDAR maker filing for bankruptcy, Elon writes:
“Amazingly, some companies are still betting on LiDAR 🤦‍♂️”

Here's a closer look at the new design of the Cybercab in a Tesla showroom at Tesla Santana Row in San Jose:

Elon mentioned: “AI5/AI6 engineering is my biggest time allocation at Tesla. AI5 will be good, AI6 will be great.”

On the software side - check out Grok in action for the Tesla navigation in this video — “ I just asked Grok in my Model Y to navigate to three different destinations, and it automatically added them all at once, in the correct order, to the navigation in my car. Grok can also remove or edit destinations.”

On my “other gig”, I have recently launched a large interactive Supercharging Report that is meant for EV businesses (hence the heavy price tag) to understand the Tesla Supercharging network down to the stall, globally across 72,335 stalls.

I’m sharing some insight nuggets from the report also on socials, and here are the first two:

Here’s how the Tesla Supercharging stalls are spread across the world:

46.2% of all Tesla Superchargers deployed are in the US
26.8% in Europe
16.3% in China
3.7% in Canada
1.6% in South Korea
1.3% in Australia & NZ

And the other insight I have put together so far is about the share of Tesla Superchargers globally that are open to all EVs (read the post for more):

Did you find the easter egg? :)

Tesla opened North America's northernmost Supercharger in Fairbanks, Alaska, with 8 stalls.

Turns out that one of the cool features of Tesla's new Supercharging Live Site Maps feature that I showed you last week, is that it shows you a stall is unavailable when an EV is taking up two spots due to their different charge port location. This will be great for crowded sites so you don’t park in a spot that another EV is taking:

Max comments: “Superchargers know when another EV, with a charge port on the front left or rear right is plugged into a short-cable Supercharger stall.” Now that’s just… smart.

Tesla has announced that the Powershare with Powerwall feature is still in development and is now scheduled for release in mid-2026.

Wes comments on the Powershare with Powerwall feature delay addressing the disappointments, and shares what the tough part has been:

“It turned out to be much harder than anticipated to make powershare work seamlessly with existing Powerwalls through existing wall connectors. Two grid forming devices need to negotiate who will form and who will follow depending on state of charge of each, and they need to do this without a network and through multiple generations of hardware and test and validate this process through rigorous certifications to ensure grid safety.”

Elon's companies now valued at combined $2.5 trillion:

Tesla: $1.5 trillion
SpaceX: $800 billion
xAI: $230 billion
Neuralink: $9 billion
The Boring Company: $7 billion

Elon gives more details on AI satellites, says it's easier, not harder, than the Starlink V3 design:

Also, says: "Harnessing even a millionth of the Sun’s energy would make every human a billionaire in purchasing power."

Mr Beast has been spotted touring Starbase, with employees seen giving him a private walkthrough. Will there be a SpaceX video?

🌍 In partnership with Airtel Africa, Starlink Direct to Cell will connect more than 170 million people in Africa across 14 countries, powering life-saving connectivity when it’s needed most. This marks the sixth continent for the satellite-to-mobile service and expands Starlink’s mission to end mobile dead zones.

The service will begin by delivering data that enables voice, video and messaging, and will advance to providing high-speed broadband service to smartphones with 20x improved data speeds.

xAI shared a photo of Elon with engineers standing with the caption "24/7/365. Rain or shine. CEO midnight meetings. All hands on deck building the world’s best data centers with maniacal speed and efficiency."

xAI also shared photos of its new Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system at its new Colossus 2 datacenter in Memphis, the largest in the world. There are ~420 Megapacks worth about $400 million. Says "BIG FANS of Sustainable Battery Solutions."