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Here's a 24-minute interview with Elon Musk and André Thierig, the head of Giga Berlin. Yes, you read that right.

There's a lot of buzz around Giga Berlin this week, because the vote is happening today (2nd-4th March), likely why this interview took place now. Elon is essentially saying that the acceleration of Giga Berlin is hanging in the balance, determined to whether it can be free in its actions ( = free or union pressures).

I also found André firing back with facts at the misreporting from Handelsblatt on Tesla. The German media site has turned into a mouthpiece of IG Metall, the one trying to unionize Giga Berlin.

For added context, Tesla also caught someone from IG Metall secretly recording a team meeting, and had police escort them out.
Giga Berlin also has a huge banner in front of the lobby now:

By the way, on the interview, Elon also said FSD (Supervised) will likely be approved for use on customer cars on March 20th in the Netherlands. That's huge for Europe.

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FSD is getting natural language inputs!

Important milestone: Tesla was granted a waiver allowing it to use Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio technology for its wireless EV charging system that will be used to wirelessly charge the Cybercab. Normally, this kind of radio must be handheld and can’t be installed outdoors on fixed equipment. Tesla’s charging pad is fixed and could be outdoors, so they needed an exception.

Some remarkable FSD videos:

Another great FSD safety story: "I unintentionally fasted for 17 hours, took some medicine, and had a severe allergic reaction. My body shut down—I passed out while driving on the freeway, mid-conversation with my wife on the phone.

Thank God my Tesla had Full Self-Driving engaged. It detected I lost consciousness (thanks to the driver monitoring system), immediately slowed, activated hazards, and safely pulled over to the shoulder. No crash. No danger to anyone else on the road."

Tesla’s first FSD (Supervised) road trials have officially begun in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. Tesla has also applied to conduct local FSD (Supervised) testing in the city of Jönköping, Sweden. Now that FSD is close to ready for actual worldwide release, you can see the regulatory work gaining more importance.

I happened to break the news on Tesla about to start deploying Megachargers in Europe, based on a recent job posting.

Tesla has released a Tall Pedestal for Wall Connector for $900.

Tesla has released a new blog post: Solar Panel Payback Period.

Tesla Cafes at Supercharging stations? A user shared a rendering of one saying:

"I wish there were little Tesla coffee shops at Supercharging stations. Humans could get charged up while their cars are charging."

Elon replies: "Looks cute, we should probably try this out. For sure with Optimus!"

If it were me, I'd call it SNACS. And in Europe, I'd call it SNACCS. If you know, you know ;)

Elon gave two short updates on Starship:
"Starship V3 SN1 headed for ground tests.
I am highly confident that the V3 design will achieve full reusability."

and

"Should note that SpaceX will only try to catch the ship with the tower after two perfect soft landings in the ocean. The risk of the ship breaking up over land needs to be very low."

More than 5,700 commercial aircraft either already have Starlink installed or are under contract to receive it.

That would account for ~19% of the active global commercial aircraft fleet when all installs are completed.

The first airline in Asia, ZipAir, also just announced adoption.
Also, first eVTOL partnership announced: Archer.

Related: MrBeast says, on video, that once enough airlines start using Starlink, he’ll only book flights that have it. I didn’t know that MrBeast and myself are so much like, who would’ve guessed.

Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with Starlink to expand internet access in rural, agricultural, and hard-to-reach communities

Starlink Mobile (now rebranded from Starlink Direct-to-Cell) is growing like crazy. Now partnering with German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom to launch Starlink Mobile service for over 140 million people in 10 European countries.

Starlink Mobile website (starlink.com/business/mobile) got an update, along with a new video and coverage map that shows where the service is currently available and where it's coming soon:

Starlink Mobile is now:

Here is the 20-minute talk from Gwynne Shotwell and Michael Nicolls at the MWC26 conference in Barcelona with added subtitles. The scale of Starlink operations today just boggles my mind…

There's some interesting cross-pollination of Tesla & xAI team members I discovered:
a team member going from
at Tesla Energy working with xAI → at xAI working with Tesla Energy

On Grokipedia, the Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales calls Grokipedia a "ridiculous idea" that "will never work." Elon’s reply:

If there’s anyone on this planet that can provide receipts that they have proven the ‘this will never work’ people wrong and spectacularly so, it’s Elon…

Boring Company shared a quick video: "Tunneling has begun in Nashville - we are 2.5 feet in! Looking ahead:

This is announced super fast, right after approval on Feb 25th from the Tennessee DOT to officially begin construction on the Music City Loop tunnel in Nashville. Interestingly, Elon commented under the post that "Any fully autonomous electric cars can use the tunnels"

This hasn’t been too clear before. Will some automakers/robotaxi players bite and partner up?

Boring Company also announced 16 Tunnel Vision contest finalists, from 487 entries:

Neuralink is planning to expand Austin operations with $8.2M in renovations and new hires. The building:

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