Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car!
Another great day to fly at Giga Texas and the start of another work week! Operations picked up from where we left off on Friday, with many Cybertrucks in the outbound lot ready for transport, while some more were staged in the north lot awaiting processing.
I have heard there was a module from a supplier that may have been faulty, and as a result, many of the Cybertrucks grouped together at the north lot we saw on Friday had to have this module removed and replaced. This work took place over the weekend, with some more of this underway today.
In the video introduction, I talked about some new large tents (aka sprung structures) being assembled at the Taylor Rail Yard, about 15 miles north of Giga Texas. This is the location many of the new vehicles are transported to from Giga Texas for shipping on trains around the United States. These large tents are meant to move some of the final End-of-Line functions to the point of departure and also, provide Telsa employees a conditioned environment to work in.
During the summers, this part of Texas is humid and very hot, while the winters can be cold with a lot of winds. These structures will make the 12 hour shifts much more bearable for the employees who otherwise would be outside for most of their shifts
I also talk about the official announcement by the Boring Company of the completion of their new Tunnel Boring Machine, the Prufrock-4! This is an iterative design with many improvements over the older Prufrock-3 that made the tunnel at Giga Texas recently. This new TBM was manufactured in their Bastrop, Texas facility and I was fortunate to see it during the final stages of assembly during my tour of the facility back in April of this year.
The Boring Company did mention some interesting statistics, including that it is 308 feet (~100 meters) long, including the assembled Gantries that extend off the rear of the TBM (~1 American football field), weighs 797,000 pounds (~361,500 Kg or ~150 standard-sized SUVs), and it produces up to 4.7 million pounds of thrust (which is~90% of Falcon Heavy liftoff thrust)!
Timestamps:
Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 4:07
Drone flight footage & infographics: 4:24 to 29:10
Many interesting things to see in the images and the video later today, including a lot of progress on the south end extension roof, interior, cooling system pipes and the three south tunnels. We also see work at the north end with electrical wires being fed into the new underground conduit system north of Tesla Road, temporary tailored cooling systems for the north end of casting, the Bag House filtration plant assembly, and the nearby concrete apron work.
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Video, photos, illustrations, and commentary on this video is by me, Joe Tegtmeyer unless otherwise annotated.
Music in this video is obtained from the KZitem free and unrestricted and royalty-free use library. Ending song is Mr. Sunny Face - Wayne Jones
Drones used are DJI Mini 2, Mavic Air 2 & Air 3.
Drone flight over Giga Texas is with permission of Tesla and CEO Elon Musk
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