Believer, husband, father, Star Wars Nut and technology enthusiast. I work for Tesla. All views and opinions expressed are my own.
Joined March 2013
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Zach schmidt retweeted
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
Zach schmidt retweeted
People are buying FSD with a car attached, not the other way around
Tesla has just released its Q3 earnings results.
Highlights:
• EPS (non-GAAP): $0.48 (vs. $0.45 est)
• Revenue: $28.05B (vs. $28.3B est)
• Adjusted EBITDA: $3.90B
• Active FSD Subscriptions: 1.74M, up 67% YoY from 1.04M
• Net income (GAAP): $787M
• Free cash flow: $1.53B
• Capex: $4.73B
• Cash & marketable securities: $45.45B, up 9% YoY
Zach schmidt retweeted
Tesla is now adding an average of 2,800 FSD subscribers per day, a record high.
Overall, Tesla is now generating $92 million per month, or $1.1 billion per year, from FSD subscriptions.
Zach schmidt retweeted
Teslas sold out in the U.S. for 2026 (new orders):
• Model 3 RWD
• Model Y L Launch Series
Teslas almost sold out in the U.S. for 2026 (new orders):
• Model Y RWD
• Model Y AWD
Zach schmidt retweeted
We’re literately having the Cybercab launch event, Semi factory launch event and the Roadster launch event all within a 30-day span 🫨
Zach schmidt retweeted
The future of transport is safer, more enjoyable & gives you more time back
With theater, music & gaming apps on a 22" touchscreen, Cybercab offers you a space to be productive or unwind
Soon to be equipped with V5 Starlink hardware, too, for complete connectivity
Zach schmidt retweeted
Tesla has introduced a new form that you can fill out if you are interested in purchasing a fleet of Cybercabs:
Form: tesla.com/robotaxi/interest
Zach schmidt retweeted
🚨 AWESOME! Argentina President Javier Milei is being praised worldwide for filing a law to BLOCK politicians from getting paid if they allow the country's budget to fall into a deficit
"For the first time in our history, if politicians don't do their homework, they won't get paid. It's not the people who'll go unpaid — it's the politicians."
🔥🔥🔥
DO IT IN THE USA!
This is BASED, @JMilei! 🇺🇸🇦🇷
Zach schmidt retweeted
I don’t think most people understand the massive scale of investment Tesla & SpaceX are making in Texas right now.
Everything the two companies are/going to build across the state:
• Terafab (Grimes County)
• Gigasat factory (in Bastrop, currently under construction)
• Optimus factory (at Giga Texas, currently under construction)
• Advanced technology fab (at Giga Texas, currently under construction)
• Tesla Project Crystal Sun (big solar cell plant in Fort Bend County. Late 2026 construction start date)
• Expanded Starlink terminal production facility (in Bastrop, currently under construction)
• Further Starbase expansion (in Starbase)
• Tesla Megafactory 3 (in Brookshire, just started prod)
Zach schmidt retweeted
Sophie Cunningham @sophaller is one tough lady. She’s not afraid to stand up. At the last three @IndianaFever games, she has been booed, criticized by other players and coaches, and even had rallies organized against her. What’s her crime? She simply believes that women and girls shouldn’t have to compete against or share a locker room with biological males. Well, I agree with her and support her request that the @WNBA and the media let her “get back to basketball!”
Zach schmidt retweeted
The guy who can’t even build 1 foot of train tracks with $120 Bn and 7 years in office is trying to take shots at the guy who is landing rocket ships backwards and catching them in midair with chopsticks?
Ok, bro.
Zach schmidt retweeted
Only when you drive the Cybertruck do you realize how incredible it is: a bulletproof tank that moves like a million dollar sports car!
Reason for the angular shape is that the thick, ultra-hard stainless steel body panels cannot be stamped like the thin, feeble, paper-strength mild steel of other trucks. Cybertruck body panels would break 5000 ton stamping machines.
One of Elon's most vocal critics just bought a Cybertruck.
Brian Krassenstein, who has spent years publicly clashing with @elonmusk, announced the purchase yesterday.
His reason had nothing to do with politics.
He has a young family and the Cybertruck is the only pickup truck in America to hold both an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award and a perfect 5-star NHTSA rating simultaneously.
When your fiercest critics are buying your product because the data leaves them no choice, that's a different kind of win.
Zach schmidt retweeted
Tesla
U.S. loyalty rates by make, February 2026
1. Tesla — 61.1%
2. Subaru — 60.5%
3. Toyota — 59.9%
4. Ferrari — 59.7%
5. Honda — 58.2%
6. Ford — 57.8%
7. Lucid — 57.9%
8. Chevrolet — 56.7%
9. Nissan — 55.7%
10. Mercedes-Benz — 54.7%
11. BMW — 52.9%
12. Kia — 52.9%
13. Hyundai — 51.7%
14. Lexus — 50.4%
15. Mazda — 48.3%
16. GMC — 47.8%
17. Porsche — 46.7%
18. Rolls-Royce — 46.2%
19. Lincoln — 45.9%
20. Volvo — 44.5%
21. Acura — 44.2%
22. Land Rover — 43.9%
23. Lamborghini — 43.6%
24. Jeep — 43.5%
25. Volkswagen — 43.2%
26. Cadillac — 41.2%
27. Aston Martin — 40.8%
28. Audi — 38.0%
29. Ram — 38.8%
30. Buick — 36.0%
31. Genesis — 36.1%
32. Mitsubishi — 34.3%
33. Polestar — 34.9%
34. Infiniti — 31.5%
35. Bentley — 30.0%
36. Rivian — 28.6%
37. McLaren — 25.0%
38. INEOS — 24.7%
39. Chrysler — 21.4%
40. Alfa Romeo — 20.2%
41. VinFast — 20.5%
42. Lotus — 16.3%
43. Jaguar — 15.8%
44. Dodge — 15.5%
45. Maserati — 11.7%
46. Fiat — 3.3%
47. Mini — 0.0%
48. Smart — 0.0%
49. Fisker — 0.0%
Zach schmidt retweeted
New video from Tesla of Cybercabs with NO steering wheels rolling off the production line and driving themselves to the outbound lot!
Zach schmidt retweeted
New release of FSD Supervised now starting to roll out
This update brings 20% faster reaction time to further increase safety, among many other improvements
Full release notes below
Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 includes
- Upgraded the Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage of training the FSD neural network, resulting in improvements in a wide variety of driving scenarios.
- Upgraded the neural network vision encoder, improving understanding in rare and low-visibility scenarios, strengthening 3D geometry understanding, and expanding traffic sign understanding.
- Rewrote the AI compiler and runtime from the ground up with MLIR, resulting in 20% faster reaction time and improving model iteration speed.
- Mitigated unnecessary lane biasing and minor tailgating behaviors.
- Increased decisiveness of parking spot selection and maneuvering.
- Improved parking location pin prediction, now shown on a map with a (P) icon.
- Enhanced response to emergency vehicles, school buses, right-of-way violators, and other rare vehicles.
- Improved handling of small animals by focusing RL training on harder examples and adding rewards for better proactive safety.
- Improved traffic light handling at complex intersections with compound lights, curved roads, and yellow light stopping – driven by training on hard RL examples sourced from the Tesla fleet.
- Improved handling for rare and unusual objects extending, hanging, or leaning into the vehicle path by sourcing infrequent events from the fleet.
- Improved handling of temporary system degradations by maintaining control and automatically recovering without driver intervention, reducing unnecessary disengagements.
Upcoming Improvements
- Expand reasoning to all behaviors beyond destination handling.
- Add pothole avoidance.
- Improve driver monitoring system sensitivity with better eye gaze tracking, eye wear handling, and higher accuracy in variable lighting conditions.