Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car!
Early morning flight today (although not as early as I had planned due to traffic on the way up from San Antonio), and we get to see a beautiful sunrise to complement interior views of most of the west side 3rd floor (and some 2nd floor) of General Assembly. We also get a nice look at the main entrance area lit up in red lights along with the new construction going on just in front of the StoneGlass black trapezoid feature.
In the video introduction, I talk about several areas we visit today, and these are included below in the additional highlights section. Perhaps the most significant of these items we discuss is the rapidly expanding installation of huge glass panels on both the ground and second floor area of the new building extension. From all the mounts on the perimeter grade beam, the facing beams along the entire perimeter and hanging mounts along the top perimeter, we see the entire south facing part of the extension will be a large glass wall!
Timestamps: Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 4:06 Drone flight footage & infographics: 4:28 to 34:46
Some of the other highlights from today include:
The Boring Company continues to assemble the Prufrock 3 TBM, and it appears wired connections have been made to one of the newest parts of the machine. The belt cassette assembly and spoils area continue to make progress, which is a necessary and important part of the tunneling process. I also noticed about 6 or 8 new concrete tunnel segments have been delivered just to the south of the area where the Prufrock 3 is being assembled, and this may be where we see many more of these delivered soon form the Bastrop main facility where these are manufactured.
The west Supercharging site continues to grow and more trenching was noted next to the End-of-Line south end and also another new area south of the current Supercharging location for what appears to be more conduit. We also see preparations for more asphalt paving on the north and west sides of the EOL facility, as well a HVAC installation on west side. Crews were also continuing work to prepare the new outbound lot for lighting.
Castings were multiplying at the NE side of casting today, with many in racks and on the ground all along the east, northeast and north parts of the factory today. In this area, we also see crews drilling holes in the sides of the concrete apron slabs to extend rebar from the existing concrete apron to a much wider area that will reach to the east berm that surrounds the east side.
The Cathode plant has had all concrete wall panels installed now on the south end and crews were adding one of the last panels onto the east side. Also on the east side, crews were preparing a large section running the length of the building for asphalt, including adding Geotextile membranes and fill dirt on top pf the membranes ahead of the asphalt layer.
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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
By: Joe Tegtmeyer Title: Inside Views! S Glass Wall Expands! Castings Everywhere! 7 February 2024 Giga Texas Update (07:05AM) Sourced From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=35w01GejXlo
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