Farzad on Austin: "Wouldn't be surprised" + Grok Bot: "WAY more time working through changes"

Elon says efficiency improvements will allow a 40kWh Cybercab pack, and separately says the vehicle will come in liquid silver. Those are his forecasts, not confirmation of a current 40kWh pack or delivery date. Farzad reports Cybercabs as far north as Leander, and says he "wouldn’t be surprised" by a massive Austin expansion with v15. On Saturday evening, he also reported spending "WAY more time working through changes" in Grok Bot. SpaceX has published its planned Flight 15 return sequence, which remains conditional on regulatory approval.

"A 40kWh Cybercab pack"

Elon, Saturday at 1:39pm CST, replying to @WR4NYGov:

There are efficiency improvements coming that will allow for a 40kWh Cybercab pack. We will make this in liquid silver, so the colors are not too monotonous.

The biggest thing most people fail to understand is that there are a very limited number of smart, dedicated people! They can only do so many things.

If we have to maintain a complex production line, supply chain and allocate engineering for Cybertruck, we can't use those people or factory space and machinery for scaling Cybercab, which is the vehicle that will PROFOUNDLY transform the world of terrestrial transport!

Those are Elon's claims. He doesn't say what the efficiency improvements are, when a 40kWh pack would arrive, or what pack Cybercab uses today. "PROFOUNDLY transform" is his prediction.

He was answering a post WR4NYGov made Friday at 8:16pm CST:

Selling you a CyberSUV: 120 kWh batteries $20K gross profit

Putting Cybercab in robotaxi fleet: 48 kWh batteries $400K gross profit

In a battery constrained world, how many CyberSUV should tesla make?

Those are WR4NYGov’s estimates, not Tesla guidance or realized fleet profits. His post does not state the profit period or calculation behind them. Elon’s reply does not validate those figures or confirm a current 48kWh pack. He describes a possible future 40kWh pack.

Farzad liked Elon's post and RTd it at 2:53pm CST. A minute earlier, Sawyer Merritt had quoted it: "Elon says a liquid silver-colored Cybercab is coming 🔥". Farzad liked that too. He also liked James Cat's (TSLAFanMtl) 2:57pm CST quote of Sawyer: "I think it looks 🔥." Sawyer's post has a photo link, but this pull doesn't show the image.

At pull time Elon's post had 16,149 likes, 1,078 bookmarks and about 1.52 million impressions.

The November 6 Digest covered the Cybertruck wind-down plan. In his November 6 post, Elon put that plan around the middle of 2027, not an immediate stop. His Saturday reply adds his argument about allocating engineering, factory space and machinery to Cybercab.

Check Elon here. WR4NYGov here. Farzad's RT here. Sawyer here. James Cat here.

"What changed?"

Ben Schaffer, Saturday at 11:01am CST:

January 28: Elon said the Cybertruck line would go fully autonomous. This week: it's being wound down for Cybercab.

What changed? The Cybertruck line is Tesla's most autonomy-ready platform. My full analysis below. Tell me my blind spots.

The January 28, 2026 Tesla earnings-call transcript supports the narrower point behind Ben’s post. Tesla described Cybertruck as one of its most autonomy-ready platforms. Elon said Tesla would transition the Cybertruck line to a "fully autonomous line", then discussed autonomous Cybertrucks for localized cargo delivery. That context concerns autonomous vehicles; it does not establish a workerless factory. Ben’s stronger "most autonomy-ready" wording remains his assessment. His attached X article was not reviewed here. Farzad RTd Ben at 12:57pm CST and added nothing.

Ben and Elon address similar production trade-offs, but this is not a reply from Elon to Ben. Elon’s Saturday reply was to WR4NYGov. These posts do not establish what changed inside Tesla.

Ben asked for blind spots and got 78 replies. At pull time the post also had 138 bookmarks and 400 likes.

Check Ben Schaffer here. Farzad's RT here.

"As far north as Leander"

Trevor Scott, Saturday at 11:49am CST: Just saw a Cybercab mapping car near Leander/Cedar Park. Austin Robotaxi expansion soon?

Farzad liked it. He quoted it at 3:22pm CST:

I've seen Cybercabs as far north as Leander.

Wouldn't be surprised if Austin gets a MASSIVE expansion with v15.

Both posts start from sightings. Trevor ends with a question mark. Farzad goes further with "MASSIVE," but that's his projection. Nothing in this pull shows a Tesla plan for Leander. Trevor calls what he saw a "mapping car." Farzad doesn't explain v15 or give a date.

Trevor's post had 21 likes at pull time. Farzad's quote had 160 likes and 20 replies.

Check Trevor Scott here. Farzad here.

Sawyer reports 21 hours a day

ethanmckanna, Sunday at 2:00am CST: Tesla Robotaxi is now available starting at 5am

Sawyer Merritt quoted it seven minutes later: Tesla's Robotaxi service now runs 21 hours a day from 5 AM to 2 AM (from 6 AM to 2 AM before).

Getting very close to 24-hour operation.

That is Sawyer’s report, based on an Ethan McKanna post saying service now starts at 5am and an earlier post saying it runs until 2am. Their available text does not name a market or time zone. The reported schedule spans 21 hours, one more than 6am to 2am. These posts do not independently confirm operating policy for any particular market. "Very close to 24-hour operation" is Sawyer’s take. Farzad liked Sawyer’s post and RTd it at 7:27am CST Sunday. The post had 1,852 likes at pull time.

The hours report and the Leander sightings are separate items. Neither confirms a larger operating geofence. Farzad’s v15 expansion remark remains his forecast, not a Tesla announcement.

Check ethanmckanna here. Sawyer here. Farzad's RT here.

How Starship comes home

Sawyer Merritt, Saturday at 10:01am CST, quoted SpaceX’s new Flight 15 update, and Farzad liked his post. The planned date appeared in the November 6 Digest and the catch attempt in yesterday’s. The November 7 SpaceX update, "Returning Starship to the Launch Site," and Flight 15 mission page support the detailed return sequence directly. The mission remains pending regulatory approval. What follows is SpaceX’s plan, not a completed flight or an independent safety certification.

SpaceX says the planned return would pass over inhabited areas of northern Mexico and southern Texas. The ship initially targets a passively safe, suborbital trajectory toward the Indian Ocean. The company describes that initial path as keeping the vehicle headed toward cleared ocean areas if issues during ascent or shortly afterward prevent it from proceeding.

Flight controllers then check the ship's health and call "go" or "no-go" for orbit. On "go," Starship does an orbital insertion burn on a single Raptor sea-level engine. It deploys Starlink V3 satellites. Three of them are modified to take pictures of Starship's heatshield, a method SpaceX says it has tested on previous flights.

Then the ship coasts for about 21 more hours, until its orbit lines up with Starbase. During that time controllers check Raptor health, power and communications, the flight computers and navigation sensors, the propellant tanks and feedlines, tank pressure and attitude control. SpaceX calls the checks "intentionally conservative." If the mission ends early, the ship splashes down in precleared areas of the Pacific. There are early and late options around Hawaii and a mid-mission option several hundred kilometers off Chile. SpaceX says those contingency options were also provided for Flight 14, which ultimately splashed down in the northern Pacific.

Starship returns only if it meets conditions SpaceX describes as "internally developed, and FAA-approved." A deorbit burn on a single Raptor 3 engine sets up reentry over the Pacific, "thousands of kilometers uprange from Starbase." The four flaps steer the ship through small turns over "sparsely populated areas of northern Mexico and southern Texas." It goes around the major cities in the Rio Grande Valley, passes north of South Padre Island, heads out over the Gulf and makes a final turn south. People in Cameron County may hear one or more sonic booms. SpaceX’s description of FAA-approved return criteria does not establish here that a Flight 15 launch license has been issued.

Over Starbase, the ship bellyflops toward the tower at Pad 2. It lights three sea-level Raptors, flips vertical and stows its flaps. It drops to two engines between the tower arms, then to one as it nears a hover. The arms close on two catch fittings just below the forward flaps. When the ship registers contact, it shuts down its last Raptor.

SpaceX also describes an abort option that intentionally tumbles the ship to break it up before it reaches land, plus a late divert into the Gulf if the ship or tower cannot support a safe catch. Those are planned safeguards, not proof that every failure can be managed.

SpaceX says recovering an entire orbital launch system "has never been done" and calls it "the Holy Grail of rocketry." Those are SpaceX's words. At pull time Sawyer's post had 419,543 impressions and 497 bookmarks.

Check Sawyer here.

"WAY more time working through changes"

0xAlan_, Saturday at 11:03am CST:

Grok Bot has been nerfed incredibly hard since the @elonmusk tweet about the costs being unsustainable.

I'd assume they're routing requests to Grok's models now instead of Opus 5.5 or anything near equivalent.

Massive loss in quality this week

He labels the routing part with "I'd assume." "Nerfed" is his own judgment of quality. The cost post he refers to was not independently located or verified here. These posts do not establish which backend models Grok Bot uses.

Farzad quoted it at 9:59pm CST:

I'm feeling the same thing with Grok Bot. Still works for me for things I've already set up, but I find myself spending WAY more time working through changes.

That is his reported experience, not a diagnosis of the cause. He says changes take longer, while things he already set up still work for him. It does not establish that a routing change occurred or that every workflow is broken. Separately, he links Solo and Shorty in replies under his videos. His Grok Bot reply had 448 likes and 58 replies at pull time.

Sunday at 1:08am CST, dneighbors replied to Elon and Texas_Twins_Dad: Problem is last week a $200 plan lasted 7 days full throttle. This week it lasts 14hrs under moderate load.

The live thread identifies the product: Texas_Twins_Dad asked what to do when Grok Bot runs out of usage. The $200, seven days and 14 hours figures are dneighbors’ anecdote, not independently measured pricing or quota changes. Elon answered at 7:01am CST: "I will dig into this today". Farzad liked that reply. Elon’s reply promises to investigate; it does not confirm the reported change or its cause.

Sixteen minutes later, at 7:17am CST, Elon posted: Grok Bot fixes for improved token efficiency and smarter behavior are underway

Elon’s post names the goals, improved token efficiency and smarter behavior, but gives no implementation details or shipping date. It does not confirm Alan’s routing theory or establish the cause of Farzad’s experience. Farzad liked that post and quoted it at 7:27am CST: "Yay!" His reaction is to the fixes post, not the Robotaxi hours report.

At pull time Elon's post had about 1 million impressions and 2,136 replies.

Check 0xAlan_ here. Farzad's quote here. dneighbors here. Elon's reply here. Elon on fixes here. Farzad's "Yay!" here.

"my AI assistant"

Rob Miles (robertskmiles), Saturday at 8:03pm CST: Attention all companies: I never want to use your AI assistant on your website. I want to use my AI assistant on your website

Farzad RTd it at 10:24pm CST, 25 minutes after his Grok Bot post. It's Rob's opinion, and Farzad added nothing to the RT. At pull time Rob's post had 4,242 likes and 353 bookmarks.

Check Rob Miles here. Farzad's RT here.

Farzad's videos

Farzad posted five videos between Saturday at 12:01pm CST and Sunday at 6:25am CST. Only their posted titles are checked here, not the videos’ technical claims. Under three of them he linked his Grok Bot Shorty, and under the Sunday video he linked his Grok Bot Solo. Those replies name the same platform he discussed Saturday evening.

Check Why Anthropic Makes Claude Dream, Saturday at 12:01pm CST, here.

Check Why Walmart's Delivery Drones Don't Land at Your House, Saturday at 2:57pm CST, here.

Check The Most Unbelievable Rocket Launch In History, Saturday at 4:58pm CST, here.

Check Why Amazon's Robotaxi Has No Front or Back, Saturday at 6:10pm CST, here.

Check Why Elon Says We're About to Run Out of Internet, Sunday at 6:25am CST, here.

Check the Solo reply here. A Shorty reply here.