Tesla to Mars - The Podcast

Florian Minderop, Demian Beenakker, Kees Roelandschap
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Welcome to Tesla to Mars – The Ultimate Podcast on everything Tesla & Musk! 🚀 We offer you a unique European perspective on all things Musk – from Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, The Boring Company, and beyond. 🔹 Florian – Founder & CEO of MisterGreen, a pioneer in sustainable mobility, managing a fleet of 5,000 Teslas. 🔹 Kees – Chief Content Officer & Business Development at MisterGreen, expert in Full Self-Driving & European regulations. 🔹 Kenny – Founder & Managing Director of MAKE & Partners. Finance, M&A, and investment specialist. Tesla investor since 2019. 🔹 Demian – Founder of Next Level Human. Entrepreneur with a passion for Elon’s vision and future tech. From Robotaxis and Optimus to Tesla Energy and stock insights – we break it all down.

  1. May 22

    Tesla to Mars #63 - 4000 kilometer later: Wat FSD je leert over jezelf

    Kees rijdt inmiddels bijna 4000 FSD-kilometer in Nederland en wordt op zijn schouder getikt door het Autopilot-team zelf. In deze aflevering vertelt hij wat er sindsdien is gebeurd: de Reuters-foto die de hele wereld over ging, de Belgische kranten, het Tesla EMEA-evenement in Amsterdam en wat de gasten van dat team hem letterlijk in zijn gezicht zeiden. Demian en Florian nemen dat als startpunt voor een eerlijk oordeel: hoe staat FSD er nu voor in Nederland, na een maand en 10 miljoen kilometer aan data? In deze aflevering 🚗 Kees als Mr. FSD — Reuters, Belgische media en een schouderklop van het Autopilot-team📋 De staat van FSD in Nederland: wat goed werkt, wat irriteert en waar het systeem bewust is beperkt🚦 Driver monitoring, snelheidsprofielen en het verschil met de Amerikaanse versie🏙️ Fietsers, rotondes, parkeergarages en waarom assertiviteit soms gewoon nodig is📊 10 miljoen kilometer in één maand — wat die data betekent voor de volgende update⚖️ Level 2 vs. level 3: waarom die indeling niets zegt over wat de auto kan🗓️ Europese goedkeuring: de stemming in juni, België dat al wil instappen en hoe Duitsland ertegenaan kijkt🤖 Wat het Autopilot-team intern al kan — en waarom dat in Nederland (nog) niet mag🔋 Batterijcertificaten: hoe Electrify Europe en Ziva Global de markt op zijn kop zetten met data rechtstreeks uit de auto

    1h 16m

  2. Apr 15

    Tesla to Mars #62 - FSD Goedgekeurd: Kees als eerst in Europa

    Kees is terug in de studio — en hij was de eerste niet-Tesla-medewerker in Europa die FSD gepushed kreeg. In deze aflevering vertelt Kees wat er die vrijdagavond precies gebeurde, waarom hij met twee glazen wijn op toch meteen die eerste livestream deed, en wat hij de afgelopen dagen heeft geleerd van bijna duizend kilometer FSD in Nederland. Demian en Florian nemen dat als startpunt voor een breder gesprek: over wat de RDW-goedkeuring werkelijk betekent, hoe de bewijslast is omgedraaid, en wat er nu van wetgevers, gemeentes en verzekeraars wordt verwacht. In deze aflevering 🚗 Kees rijdt als eerste non-Tesla-medewerker met FSD in Europa — hoe dat moment voelde📋 Het RDW-rapport: 1,5 miljoen kilometer, 4000+ scenario's en wat die goedkeuring écht inhoudt📡 De omgekeerde bewijslast — waarom Tesla nu de benchmark is in plaats van het doelwit🗞️ Zembla, de Telegraaf en hoe de Nederlandse media omging met het nieuws🏙️ FSD door Amsterdam in de spits: fietsers op de Marnixstraat, trams en de slechtste chauffeurs van Nederland🔁 Hoe early access data terugvloeit naar Tesla en wat die camera-knop bovenin het scherm doet🤖 Supervised vs. unsupervised: waarom het geen binaire keuze is en wat er tussen zit🚕 De Cybercab-infrastructuur: schoonmakers, shepherds, fleet managers en first responders📊 Drie voorspellingen van Demian: FSD als verplichting, hybride robotaxi-uitrol en unsupervised zones per gebied📅 Weddenschap: wanneer rijdt de eerste commerciële robotaxi in Europa?

    1h 33m

  3. Apr 1

    Tesla to Mars #61 - Nederland rijdt zichzelf

    Demian en Florian namen allebei deel aan een Tesla FSD-testrit in Nederland — Demian in Eindhoven, Florian met zijn vrouw en een vriend door het centrum van Amsterdam. In deze aflevering vergelijken ze wat ze zagen, voelden en dachten. Van de Spiegelgracht tot de Leidsestraat, van een fietsende Amsterdammer die schreeuwt naar een robot, tot een supervisor die hands down kiest voor duizenden FSD-auto's boven duizend menselijke bestuurders. Maar de rijervaring is slechts het startpunt. Het gesprek escaleert naar de grotere vraag: wat betekent het als honderdduizend Nederlandse Tesla's straks allemaal deze software krijgen, in een staat die al further is dan de meeste mensen beseffen? In deze aflevering 🚗 FSD in Amsterdam en Eindhoven — wat werkte, wat verraste, en de ene interventie op de Leidsestraat🤖 De supervisor die FSD al prefereert boven menselijke bestuurders🏙️ Hoe fietsers, toeristen en voetgangers reageren op een auto zonder bestuurder📡 De uitrol in Nederland: RDW, hardware 4, en wat er nodig is voor goedkeuring🚕 Cybercab vs. Model Y vs. Cybertruck — drie platforms, drie doelstellingen📊 10 miljard FSD-mijl en wat dat zegt over de intelligentie van de vloot🔋 TerraFab, Starship en waarom energie de echte bottleneck is🛰️ SpaceX IPO, datacenters in de ruimte en de kosten per kilo richting orbit💡 Superchargers als decentrale compute-infrastructuur en als ondernemerskans

    1h 18m

  4. Feb 26

    Tesla to Mars #60 - The Age of Abundance

    They’re back after a break — and the comeback starts with a real-world “Musk economy” moment: Demian’s Starlink dish dies after a power outage, and a Grok-powered support bot replaces the entire kit in seconds, delivered the next day. That single experience becomes the lens for the episode: what happens when AI doesn’t just answer, but acts? From Tesla’s near-autonomous service workflows to the rise of screen-clicking agents that can replace most digital work, the conversation escalates into “levels of abundance” — from removing chores, to proactive health support, to AI helping you manifest bigger life goals. Then comes the harder question: if the doing disappears, what happens to meaning, identity, ethics, and even consciousness? In this episode 🛰️ Grok-powered Starlink support and AI with real authority🧾 Tesla service as a preview of agentic operations🎚️ Level 1–5 “abundance” and what it does to purpose🧠 Human beings vs human doings — and the fear of acceleration🧬 Human 3.0: biomarkers, extremes, and a new renaissance of thinking

    1h 22m

  5. Feb 6

    Tesla to Mars #59 - Amazing Abundance

    Tesla kicks off 2026 with a subtle but profound change: its mission shifts from “sustainable abundance” to “amazing abundance.” In this episode, Demian and Florian unpack what that change really means — not as branding, but as a framework for how Tesla, Elon Musk, and the broader ecosystem are thinking about the future. They explore how AI, robotics, and autonomy don’t just reduce costs, but fundamentally redefine what is economically possible. From removing mental friction and daily administrative drag, to a world where labor, energy, information, and transport become abundant resources. Step by step, the conversation builds toward the idea of “level 5 abundance”: a phase where projects no longer fail due to labor shortages, capital constraints, or bureaucracy — but simply get executed. The episode closes by grounding this philosophy in concrete, measurable Tesla milestones: FSD subscribers, Robotaxi miles, Optimus production, CapEx, and AI compute. “Amazing abundance” turns out not to be a vague vision, but a roadmap that can already be tracked today. In this episode 🚀 Tesla’s new mission — why “amazing abundance” is more than semantics 🧠 AI as leverage — productivity, creativity, and the removal of mental friction 🤖 Optimus & Robotaxis — labor and transport as abundant resources 🌍 From scarcity to abundance — moving beyond zero-sum thinking 📈 Levels 1–5 of abundance explained with real-world examples 📊 The Tesla milestones that determine whether this vision is real 💰 Subscriptions, CapEx, and why cash flow matters more than profits 🔺 The “triangle”: AI, energy, and execution as one system

    1h 32m

  6. 12/13/2025

    Tesla to Mars #57 - The Streisand Effect in Europe & the Race to Space Compute

    Europe feels stuck in a loop: welfare strain, bureaucracy, and a growing sense that the system is becoming unsustainable. The conversation kicks into “peak chaos week” after the EU’s fine on X and what the crew see as speech being regulated based on what institutions “don’t like.”  From there, they zoom out into geopolitics and incentives: why alignment between the EU and US is fraying, what that signals about long-term strategy, and who gets to build the next economic order.   Then the lens shifts to the actual constraint underneath everything: cheap energy and fast-growing compute. “Misconomy 2.0” becomes the frame—capital, regulators, and companies either solving the bottleneck together, or losing the decade. Finally, they connect Starship scale to a wild but logical endpoint: cloud computing and AI infrastructure moving into orbit and beyond.   In this episode🇪🇺 Europe’s pressure cooker — welfare strain, bureaucracy & why the system feels unsustainable❌ EU vs X — fines, speech regulation & the Streisand effect in action📈 #1 app in Europe — why suppression backfires faster than ever🤝 EU–US alignment — trade, defense & why strategic cooperation is fracturing⚡ Energy as the real bottleneck — cheap power, compute & productivity as destiny📉 “Misconomy 2.0” — how Europe misses the capital–energy–innovation triangle🔺 From triangle to pyramid — energy, consciousness & Maslow in economic form🚀 Starship scale — why cheaper launches change cloud computing forever🖥️ Space-based compute — AI infrastructure leaving Earth as the logical next step🧠 Media & AI races — incentives, narratives & why speed now beats control

    1h 43m

  7. 11/27/2025

    Tesla to Mars #56 - FSD in Europe: Safety, Robotaxis & the Cost of Waiting

    The crew sit down in peak FSD-chaos week: Tesla calls on owners to message their road authorities, RDW gets flooded, and suddenly there’s an official path on the table — Article 39 with a February target. What looks like “FSD is coming to Europe” turns out to be much more messy, political and philosophical than headlines suggest. They unpack why RDW matters so much, how a temporary exemption could let Tesla *shape* future regulation instead of just absorbing it, and what happens if the Article 39 route fails and everything slips to 2027+. Along the way they zoom out: Europe’s shrinking importance for Tesla, the shift from “owning a car” to “buying transport”, the coming Cybercab wave, and how AI, energy and autonomy collide into a new economic order. Check out:- Tesla’s post on FSD in Europe: https://x.com/KRoelandschap/status/1992320393185742857?s=20- Kees’ take on FSD and RDW repsons: https://x.com/KRoelandschap/status/1992971468162912495?s=20- Post of Greentheonly: https://x.com/greentheonly/status/1991414891958473103?s=46&t=xqdJJOleebMe_vzuGspn1g In this episode 🚦 RDW, Article 39 & why a February “commitment” isn’t a done deal🌍 1.3–1.4M Teslas in Europe & what that means for FSD priorities🛡️ Safety first — Tesla’s data, regulators and “regulating for stupid”🚕 FSD vs Cybercabs — supervised driving or straight to Robotaxis💶 Cheap energy, transport & labour — sustainable abundance or lost decade for Europe🧠 AI 2027, arms races & why delaying tech only makes the shock bigger

    1h 36m

  8. 11/20/2025

    Tesla to Mars #55 — Ancient Engineering and Future AI

    A deep dive that bridges 5,000 years of engineering with the frontier of AI and robotics. From Demian’s on-site exploration of Egypt’s pyramids to Tesla’s chip strategy, CyberCab rollout and Optimus economics, this episode tracks how civilizations rise on manufacturing breakthroughs — and why we’re entering the next one. The crew zoom out from the shareholder meeting headlines to the real story: scale, compute, robotics, and the societal transition that follows. What the pyramids were for ancient Egypt, the TeraFab and Optimus may become for us. Check out:- Robot IRL: https://x.com/robotinreallife- Jeff Lutz: https://x.com/thejefflutz- Larry Goldberg's Muskonomy 2.0 Article: https://x.com/TeslaLarry/status/1990060509979119670?s=20 In this episode 🏺 Ancient Tech, Modern Parallels — Why the pyramids look less like tombs and more like early gigafactories: pressure chambers, ammonia production, conductivity and large-scale industrial design. 🤖 Optimus Ramp & the Money Glitch — Elon’s claim of the fastest product scale-up in history, the economics behind a billion humanoids, and why labor decoupling changes everything. 🔌 Chips, Compute & the TeraFab — What Tesla’s chip strategy implies for AI scarcity, inference at planetary scale, and why data centers may move off-planet. 🚕 CyberCab & Unboxed Manufacturing — A new vehicle architecture, a new supply chain, and why robotaxis won’t just disrupt Uber — but the entire ICE market. 🌍 FSD Deployment Reality Check — Europe’s regulatory gridlock, loopholes used by early adopters, and geopolitical fragmentation in autonomous driving. 🛰️ Space-Based AI — The blueprint for AI data centers in space, Starship cadence, lunar cooling advantages, and the economics of off-world compute. 💸 The Next Economy — Deflation, unemployment, value creation without labor, and the tension between societal collapse and abundance-driven entrepreneurship. 🧭 A Pro-Human AI Future — What a “pro-human AI” actually means: preventing harm, augmenting human capability, and shifting from a money-driven to a value-driven society.

    1h 52m
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Welcome to Tesla to Mars – The Ultimate Podcast on everything Tesla & Musk! 🚀 We offer you a unique European perspective on all things Musk – from Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, The Boring Company, and beyond. 🔹 Florian – Founder & CEO of MisterGreen, a pioneer in sustainable mobility, managing a fleet of 5,000 Teslas. 🔹 Kees – Chief Content Officer & Business Development at MisterGreen, expert in Full Self-Driving & European regulations. 🔹 Kenny – Founder & Managing Director of MAKE & Partners. Finance, M&A, and investment specialist. Tesla investor since 2019. 🔹 Demian – Founder of Next Level Human. Entrepreneur with a passion for Elon’s vision and future tech. From Robotaxis and Optimus to Tesla Energy and stock insights – we break it all down.

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  • Creator
    Florian Minderop, Demian Beenakker, Kees Roelandschap
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    40
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Florian Minderop, Demian Beenakker, Kees Roelandschap

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