A Tesla Cybertruck was seen towing a trailer with a statue of Elon Musk in Texas over the weekend, although the story behind the bust will not be fully clear as of but.
On Sunday, X person S.E. Robinson Jr. shared video footage of the Musk statue and Cybertruck, as taken by Sandra Helena Garcia in Brownsville, Texas. The Cybertruck seems to be lined within the matte black wrap, and the sighting takes place close to SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas.
Credit score: Sandra Helena Garcia (by way of S.E. Robinson Jr. on X)
W T H… Elon noticed round Brownsville 😆
📹 by Sandra Helena Garcia pic.twitter.com/cFPAg6OoBz— S.E. Robinson, Jr. (@SERobinsonJr) August 18, 2024
Whereas it isn’t fully clear the place the statue is headed or what precisely it’s for on the time of writing, Musk donated $30 million to colleges in Brownsville and Cameron County in 2021, and it wouldn’t be too stunning if this was associated.
SpaceX has been constructing out a $100 million industrial manufacturing facility at Starbase, positioned at 52190 San Martin Blvd. in Brownsville. The location will finally characteristic a five-story workplace constructing and what SpaceX has known as a “particular use industrial manufacturing facility” of round a million sq. toes.
The corporate has additionally introduced plans to take a position roughly $15 million into a shopping mall in Brownsville, set to incorporate a grocery retailer, a restaurant, and a handful of retail outlets at first. As a part of the second part of the challenge, the middle may even get an outside deck overlooking the Rio Grande and a further restaurant with round 3,500 sq. toes of indoor eating, and the completion goal for the entire challenge was initially slated for the top of this 12 months.
Earlier this month, a report from CNBC alleged that SpaceX’s Starbase had been polluting waters surrounding Texas, citing a violation from the Texas Fee on Environmental High quality (TCEQ) relating to the corporate’s water deluge system. In response, SpaceX posted on X saying that the story had been “factually inaccurate.” The corporate additionally added that it had been working with authorities from the TCEQ and the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) and had been cleared to proceed utilizing the system resulting from its lack of dangerous results.
“All through our ongoing coordination with each TCEQ and the EPA, we’ve explicitly requested if operation of the deluge system wanted to cease and we had been knowledgeable that operations might proceed,” SpaceX wrote on X. “TCEQ and the EPA have allowed continued operations as a result of the deluge system has at all times complied with widespread circumstances set by an Particular person Allow, and causes no hurt to the surroundings.”
Tesla Cybertruck noticed towing Starship Raptor engine at Starbase, TX
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