Wanbo from Ao Fei Si Qubits | Public account QbitAI’s 51st birthday, Musk’s Twitter followers also exceeded 100 million. Now, he has the 6th most followers on Twitter and the 1st most followers of a business figure. But until now, Musk has not said anything on Twitter about his b

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51 On his 51st birthday, Musk’s Twitter followers also exceeded 100 million.

Now, he is already the 6th number of followers of on Twitter , and the 1st number of followers of business figures.

But until now, Musk has not said anything on Twitter about his birthday and his 100 million followers.

time is pushed forward.

In fact, Musk has never "bubbled" on Twitter since on June 21, . It has been almost a week now. This is his last Weibo:

Regarding "Blogging" For Academician Ma, who is a madman and wants to update several updates a day, this seems a bit abnormal.

So, after disappearing for a week, what on earth has Musk been doing?

What did Musk do after disappearing for a week?

Let’s first take a look at what Musk was doing the day before he disappeared.

His updates on Twitter stayed at on June 21st . His actions on that day were not much different from usual ones, such as sharing trivial matters in life and lamenting the progress of science and technology:

Musk then disappeared.

After this, on June 22, a club called Tesla Silicon Valley Car Owners disclosed the latest interview video with Musk.

interview content, regarding Tesla’s current situation, there are two keywords:

one, new factory capacity .

Musk revealed that Tesla’s two factories in Texas and Berlin, which were put into operation not long ago, are facing difficulties in increasing production capacity due to supply chain and battery shortages.

What’s more serious is that on the one hand, the production capacity bottleneck is, on the other hand, because input and output are not proportional, Tesla has lost billions of dollars on these two new factories.

In Musk’s own words:

The Berlin and Austin factories are now huge ‘money-burning furnaces’. They were really making a huge roar, the sound of money burning.

is a very romantic metaphor, and it can also be seen that the two new factories that originally carried the task of Tesla's production capacity expansion are becoming a financial burden for Tesla.

second, battery .

Musk said that due to the impact of the supply chain, there are also challenges in the production capacity of the 4680 batteries produced at the Texas factory, which has also indirectly led to an increase in vehicle production capacity.

Tesla’s previous generation 2170 battery was also affected and production was in trouble.

I would like to mention here that at the opening ceremony of the Texas factory, Musk disclosed that the main model produced by the Texas factory in the first phase will be the Model Y equipped with 4680 batteries.

Looking at it now, let alone the Model Y equipped with 4680 batteries, even with the previous generation of batteries, the production capacity problem is difficult to solve.

Whether it is batteries or factory capacity, all problems are ultimately traced to the supply chain. Musk said that Tesla has been trapped in the nightmare of supply chain interruption in the past two years and has still not got out of the predicament.

Finally, Musk expressed Tesla's current situation in one sentence:

What Tesla is most concerned about right now is how to keep the factory running so that we can pay our employees without going bankrupt.

bankruptcy , this word seems to be less likely to be associated with Tesla after Tesla emerged from the crisis in 2020. This time it was mentioned again by Musk, although it is more like a warning to prepare for a rainy day than a description of the current situation. But it can at least explain some of the problems Tesla is currently experiencing.

Combined with Tesla’s recent series of layoffs, Musk’s “feeling that the economic situation is very bad” is one aspect, and Tesla’s internal operating conditions may also be one of the sources of streamlining layoffs.

Moreover, it seems that this layoff is not limited to streamlining. Even Tesla’s core autonomous driving department has not been spared.

Just now, Tesla was exposed to layoffs in Autopilot. The number of layoffs is about 200 people. It should be noted that the total number of people in this department is only 350. Now more than half of the employees have to pack up and leave.

So compared to birthdays and hundreds of millions of fans, Tesla's operating conditions may be more important. After all, they have already mentioned bankruptcy.

In addition to Tesla, Musk suddenly disappeared. Some netizens also proposed other possibilities. For example, it may be the acquisition of Twitter and entering the silent period :

or it is because of Dogecoin :

However, even if Musk disappears However, as a social symbol with strong appeal, every major event of his can still turn into a carnival for netizens.

Mr. Ma’s birthday, a carnival among netizens?

This time Musk celebrated his birthday, but netizens were more excited than him.

Many fans sent him birthday greetings, including emoticons and text versions:

His mother, Maye Musk, also sent him a birthday message on Twitter.

Musk’s mother Maye Musk’s birthday wishes also received a large number of forwarded comments.

And thank you to Maye Musk for giving birth to a good son:

One more thing

Maybe Musk’s worries are not limited to Tesla? There has been a little problem in the family recently:

On June 18, Musk’s eldest son, Xavier Musk (Xaiver Musk) , submitted a document to the court in Santa Monica, California, requesting to give up Musk’s surname and change it to His mother's surname is his, and he also expressed that he no longer wants to have any formal connection with his father Musk.

But the next day, June 19th (which happened to be Father's Day) , Musk also tweeted to celebrate Happy Father's Day, saying that he loved his children very much.

I have to say that this family is a bit dramatic.

Anyway, finally, I wish Musk a happy 51st birthday ~

Reference link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5w_VkAx6tc
https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1541779317428027393
https://www.barrons .com/articles/elon-musk-birthday-tesla-twitter-bitcoin-51656416163

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