love the new graphic at the lower left quadrant, PERFECT!!!

those footings in the pit are gonna hold something massive

make it real time and win win win...

As I said to Tobias this morning Randy re GigaBerlin - Wunderbar

I have to laugh for a second, please join me... These guys working this site are like the first generation of workers working on a massive worksite with fakoking drones buzzing around everywhere they go with you, Joe, the rest of the quad squad doing it every day. I guess they get used to it after a while with the sound of the drone just kinda blending in with the rest of the construction going on, but you guys have kind of created a new segment of media called CONSTRUCTION PORN. Love the updates Randy! I know you have a ceiling you have to fly under due to your close proximity to the airport, but I'd love to see the site/building from a really high perspective. How close have you guys flown toward the ceiling? Is your drone limited in how high you can fly it due to "it knowing" your close proximity to the airport?

great vid great music

Wunderbar

Super job as always 👍

Good stuff! Thanks Randy.

Thanks Randy!

Thanks Randy.

My bet- Semi truck Assembly Line

Great footage as always :-) I also like the soundtrack today it works really well at two times speed :-)

Thank you!

Is it my imagination or are those footings in the pit particularly monsterous?

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that as well, but wasn't sure. Glad to know I wasn't the only one thinking that!

@slicksalmon6948

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas Then I’m going to stick my neck out and suggest that this is the cyber truck line.

@dirkkruisheer

2 жыл бұрын

@@slicksalmon6948 I was thinking the same!

@Rob_Womack

2 жыл бұрын

My guess is that they're bigger and further apart to support a larger span for the flooring (assuming 2 floors) and larger roof span. Maybe?

@stevenfierberg457

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rob_Womack I think this section will go higher than the other sections. Those footings are huge

Almost done with the exterior...

I think the south pit is for the CyberTruck. The CT will be made with new techniques/technology, and the south pit is made different from the other areas. The CT is delayed anyway to 2022, and it looks like the south pit will be the last to be completed, so it perfect timing for the CT

Cool. Sharing. 😎

Looking at Giga Shanghai there is way more loading bays. Wondering how material will get delivered and distributed here at Giga Texas, maybe there will be some innovative solution aka external conveyor pulling containers inside through tunnels or something? ;-)

@imconsequetau5275

2 жыл бұрын

Shanghai leaves trailers in the bays and pulls stock as needed. Austin will need to rapidly empty trailers and turn around for the next type of stock. That implies that Austin stock will be moved in forklift convoys and queued near the assembly lines. I think that will improve floor traffic.

Thanks!

So space frames all the way, but wonder why they stopped building out the bridge crane underneath. Probably space frames on the side of the south corridor too, but my guess is concrete beams and roof in between.

@BigBoneESB

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, no more widening of the latter corridor yet toward the south end as if they stopped adding these huge footers, perhaps they are still working out site plans?

@BigBoneESB

2 жыл бұрын

Lastly I wonder why haven't they made ALL efforts in the past 8 weeks day in day out to finish 100% of the Phase 1 storm water pipe system before fall rains and the flooding of the work site returns.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigBoneESB they had to rip out the central storm drain system to make room for the footers in that central corridor. Soon as they're done with the footers, they'll put it back in.

I don't get why they kept that bottleneck at 12:36, surely they could have bought the adjacent land from the state like they did with other areas?

@sammyk874

2 жыл бұрын

I feel they will eventually acquire it. Some say the state won't sell it but why not? Sounds like easy money.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@sammyk874 The state needs to preserve the right of way for future expansion.

@kkarllwt

2 жыл бұрын

It is a toll road. The state may not own it.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

it looks like a bottleneck from drone. What you dont see is that the factory is over a kilometer long. So it looks like a bottle neck, but it not. Ive seen that with two eyes, its not. The reason its there, is because Austin has bad rain problems. Austin gets absolute dump truck rain storms. So when theres water on the highway and its filling the drains, they don't want water to run off the highway INTO the gigafactory. They will not get rid of that hill inbetween the highway and the giga because it prevents water from draining directly into the factory.

@sammyk874

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn They are unlikely to expand there as that would have been where the access road would have been which is what that stub where the quad squad parks was for. With Tesla taking up the adjacent property there is no need for an access road.

Maybe it's two lines for CyberTruck.

Lots of people working there. Are there any places for Food Trucks? If you see 'em, could you show them? I saw several ques for Porta-Johns ...

@barepilot1954

2 жыл бұрын

Will be a very nice cafeteria see the China factory videos

@asitraining7664

2 жыл бұрын

Food trucks are there - near the chargers, about 11 of them I think.

👏👍👏👍

the roof needs more team, it's raining season and without roof completion water goes under... with the roof completed work could be done even if raining , snowing whatever..

Merci👍👍👍

That trench has huge footings. Is this for the Cybertruck larger Casting machines and Steel fab?

@imconsequetau5275

2 жыл бұрын

Aluminum casting is already assigned among the other Gigapress machines in the northeast corner. The Cybertruck will need bending machines ie "brakes", and automated seam welding.

Hi Randy! Your work never becomes a routine. I greatly appreciate that. That said, do you have any idea why they are spraying the finished parts of the roads with water? To clean them up? To protect them from the heat?

@ChrisHplusland

2 жыл бұрын

Keep the dust down

8:23 What are the hundreds of boxes on the roof all about? Anybody know?

@musaran2

2 жыл бұрын

Packs of insulation panels to cover the roof.

I assume the school buses moving employees from parking to the factory?

@aforman1951

2 жыл бұрын

And vice versa at quitting time.

Why’s going on inside the battery factory building? Are they filling it with robots and assembly equipment?

What is the grey/white mound in 17:07. It looks like a quarry but in such contrast to surrounding area and the way it spills over into the water it almost looks like it has been dumped there, but the quantity make that seem unlikely.

@DessieDoolan

2 жыл бұрын

Waste from the concrete plant. Returned loads, wash out etc.

@desmondcrosland7884

2 жыл бұрын

@@DessieDoolan cheers for that. I tried to find out what the site was previously but couldn’t locate it. Handy having all that hard fill sitting there.

@DessieDoolan

2 жыл бұрын

@@desmondcrosland7884 They are about to start exploiting it as well. Crushing and sorting plant along with a couple of elevators arrived a few weeks back.

I asked on Joe Tegtmeyer's 09 Sept 2021 video, and I'll state/ask here as well at 0:40 / 3:45: are the two giga-casting foundations currently under construction for machines #4 & 5, or are these for machines # 5 & 6? I think there's a foundation slab in background that could accept a giga-casting machine; there's certainly over-head gantry crane space (to be installed) for such. Thoughts?

@sammyk874

2 жыл бұрын

These are foundations 5 & 6.

@vermontsownboy6957

2 жыл бұрын

@@sammyk874 Thanks for confirm.

@imconsequetau5275

2 жыл бұрын

There is room for at least 13 Giga-presses.

My guess is the heavy footings are for a battery cell line. Elon mentioned the floor space requirements for the 4680 line are 10% of the older lines. He showed huge arrays of racks of batches cells being charged and discharged for testing. Giga Berlin built a monster of a floating foundation for their battery cell plant.

@imconsequetau5275

2 жыл бұрын

How about bridge crane rails above these huge footings, plus longer (heavier) spans?

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

The battery section is in the northwest.

I can imagine a Boring Machine boring a tunnel from the end of the trench to the Steel Factory. Hey imagination is out of control with me.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

the steel factory is quite a ways away. just the digger and the concrete make tunnels cost over 1 million per mile... but lolz.. Elon has started working with the city of austin to look into making tunnels tho

@barepilot1954

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 yep. Just would be supper cool. Heard they where building tunnels around Austin

@asitraining7664

2 жыл бұрын

@@barepilot1954 I think it was from downtown to the airport (which is very close to Tesla)

my imagination takes me the point of seeing the largest solar farm in texas !

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. They don't have enough land for that. Roadrunner is bigger. They barely have enough land to match Upton-2, Roserock, Buckthorn or Holstein. But only if they did not build any more buildings, and plowed up the parking lots.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

I just now counted 18 more solar installs in Texas, under construction, set to finish before the end of the year, all of which occupy more acres than Tesla owns here. So even if Tesla covered every square inch of it's Austin property with solar, it would only be the 25th largest solar install in the state.

@asitraining7664

2 жыл бұрын

They could put a whole lot of solar in the big parking lots. Just raise them up and let the cars park underneath. You can't have too much shade in Texas!