After Dark Helmet’s recent overall win at Petersen Museum’s Time Attack I’ve been reminiscing on Pikes Peak 2021. We took a 2 week old family sedan, built a #42 race car out of it, and Randy won our division against cars with unlimited mods. DH is still dominant 5 years later. Wow so downforce!

Last year was just the beginning... Frunk or Treat returns to Unplugged Performance Fremont on Saturday, October 24th from 4–8PM — and we’re going much bigger this year. Bring the family. Bring the build. Bring a costume. 👻 And yes… we still have a few surprises we’re not ready to announce just yet. 📍 46701 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 🗓 Saturday, October 24th ⏰ 4PM–8PM Bay Area, we’ll see you there. 🦇

So thankful to all our incredible donors to this year's @theXtakeover raffle – over $15,000 of products contributed 🖤

Plaid Perfection… on Mars

Last year was just the beginning... Frunk or Treat returns to Unplugged Performance Fremont on Saturday, October 24th from 4–8PM — and we’re going much bigger this year. Bring the family. Bring the build. Bring a costume. 👻 And yes… we still have a few surprises we’re not ready to announce just yet. 📍 46701 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 🗓 Saturday, October 24th ⏰ 4PM–8PM Bay Area, we’ll see you there. 🦇

Hutto, Texas City Council has directed staff to compare costs for a three-vehicle test of @Tesla Cybertrucks for the Hutto Police Department, after Council member Jerrel Reynolds bought one in April and found its fuel and maintenance costs to be low. The Las Vegas Police Department has 10 Cybertrucks in its fleet (pictured below), Reynolds said, and he suggested the city reach out to that department for more information. “I think this is the future," Mayor Mike Snyder said. Each Police Cybertruck is expected to save the Las Vegas PD $9,500 a year in fuel and maintenance costs alone. It's the #1 most American-made police truck.

Am I crazy? Here's my theory: new Tesla Roadster deposit holders (myself included) may be funding the dawn of personal space transportation, the same way the original Roadster buyers funded the EV revolution here on Earth. There is a beautiful symmetry in that story arc. Let’s start with the incentives. Would Elon point his top SpaceX and Tesla talent at thrust-based propulsion purely as one of the world’s most epic stunts? Maybe! It is badass. But Elon plays the long game better than any entrepreneur alive, and he's the world’s most efficient capital and talent allocator. Elon’s track record is unbeatable when it comes to aiming every bit of energy at a specific high leverage inflection point in the future. It always has a theme of helping humanity. Why would we bet this would somehow be different? A short term fun side quest? Are we sure? Doesn’t sound like Elon. The new Roadster is the craziest car ever built. Set aside the record breaking craziness and look at the engineering choices: obsessive weight reduction, high-volume COPV tanks, insanely precise avionics. Now strip off all the earth going road gear. Imagine a limited production run of road cars leading towards and funding a SpaceX-only variant that keeps the production line humming long into the future. Those future ones are not designed to ever be used on Earth's gravity. Get it under 1,000 kg and even modest thrust gets interesting. At 50 N of thrust, you could cover something like 200 km in about an hour moving between nearby points in orbit. You'd be in a space suit, sure, but it's a personal vehicle that actually gets you places. Dragon and Starship would handle launch, reentry, and the long haul. This is the high volume, cheaper to build local ride. A space Cybercab for short trips. Then add a SpaceX charging network on the Moon. Electricity for driving on the surface, and propellant only when you need thrust. If that works, a space Cybertruck and Robovan would be the next step. Or maybe it's just a super epic car to showcase engineering as inspiring magic meant to make the next generation of engineers to take bigger swings. I signed up for that as a reservation holder, and I'm proud to support that. But what if it's something more and we are all too fixated on the shiny object in front of us to not see the bigger picture?

EVレース最終戦の筑波、#524 WIKISPEED MS PLAIDでポール・トゥ・ウィン＆ファステストラップで締めくくることができました！予選は59.920、EVレースでは史上初の1分切りを達成！ このModel S Plaidは、元オーナーのTeamTAISAN千葉監督が最後に作ったクルマです。 トラブルなどが続き、千葉監督には一度も優勝を届けることができませんでした。 今回ようやく石井工場長、そしてWIKISPEEDの仲間たちと一緒に勝利を報告できて、本当に嬉しいです。 そして、EVモータースポーツに高い志を持つオーナーのJoeさんと、改めて優勝を分かち合えたことも心から嬉しく思います。Joeさん、ありがとうございました！ チームの皆さん、応援してくださったすべての方に感謝します。 #EVレース #WIKISPEED #TeamTAISAN