Tesla is getting there. Nice, I can see progress being made for the plants. Ponds in place with drain systems ready for rain to be leveled between flooding. Good sign for recovering plants 🌱 life in there Area’s balance with nature.

This channel is my favorite of all the folks covering this project. The speed the drone moves is just right and the distance is close enough that you can see what’s going on but far enough out to get a good overview. Great coverage where there’s something to see without dwelling on ares where nothing is happening.

The steel parts in the central area are darker Gray than those stored in the cathode area on the east. I saw some of these dark grey parts staged for delivery yesterday morning on the west side temporary storage area. This suggests the light grey parts on the east will be for that structure and not for the central area as some have speculated. This is a significant revelation!

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

Great observation Joe! Could we soon start to see activity on the east to indicate the actual start of construction over there?

@PM_82

2 жыл бұрын

When you look at Jeff's video from yesterday ( my time yesterday but the morning of this video texas time ) , in the long flyover on the westside, south side and back over the allyway you can see the truck leaving the west storage area and then reappear in the allyway driving behind the crane.

@BigBoneESB

2 жыл бұрын

Would you say this is a West Side Story?

Randy, I love the progress recaps that you and Joe provide in your videos. I find that these are incredibly valuable. Thanks again for the great work. EDIT: As to work in the central corridor, I wonder whether the two rows of footings in north end are for a gantry crane above heavy works? Similarly, I wonder whether the massive footings under construction in the south (narrower) trench are really the in sides of supports for two parallel gantry cranes? I find this plausible as very large footings are under construction on west side at 13:10.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

At 2:45 those nine closely spaced footings look like they're going to be bearing a heavy load, I'm thinking concrete columns. The close spacing means that the areas between and around them are not going to be for workspace. Could be heavy machinery. Or I've been speculating that it might be for vehicles to access the upper floors. Thanks, Randy.

I've always thought they would need a large freight elevator somewhere in the plant, but I've never seen any signs of that. They will still require at times, moving heavy parts/machinery between the floors after everything is enclosed.

My guess for what is going into the south end gap: Some sort of elaborate truck handling equipment for unloading semis efficiently.

It seems like they are leveling and draining the East side of the pond at the South end of the main building. Pushing all of the pipes and water to the Westside and filling in and leveling the Eastside in preparation for building something there. My guess would be a parking structure just like the north end.

@saff226

2 жыл бұрын

Musk said the factory will be extended another 500 feet so it could be for that

@NinetooNine

2 жыл бұрын

@@saff226Hadn't heard that. Technically if you built a parking structure and connected it by sky bridge it would still be considered part of the factory though.

Great video, thanks Randy! 13:40 very interesting to compare Jeff's view of the south alleyway in the afternoon to this view in the evening. In the former, crane is moving into place and no steel on the ground yet. A lot happens in just a few hours.

@PM_82

2 жыл бұрын

In jeff's video you can see the first truck entering the allyway at the end of the video and parked earlier part as the video is not in the order as filmed.

Hm, I could've sworn that the double row of large footings in the pit will get concrete pillars give the larger distance between one another. However, I also expected space frames on top so wider footers and steel pillars could still hold space frames I guess. Dunno about the middle footers, we'll see if they either widen the pit (probably won't) or if it will have one more footer between stamping and the other side of the factory, or even something entirely different.

Large concrete footings in the southern gap may not relate to the type of work done above them in that part of the factory, as much as the unstable ground beneath that area of the factory ; which may have had pools of water that were filled in on the original site. That area might need more structural foundation because of the nature of the soil underneath it.

My guess for the southern gap is: most likely location of the machinery to fold the steel to make the Cybertruck exoskeleton/bodies/superstructure.

Thank you!

Those 2 wide sections look like they could be hosting heavy bridge cranes, the likes of those in the Model 7 stamping area. Cybertruck panels stamping :thinking_face:

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

I was actually thinking something similar!

@laurilehtomaki

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas I think the south end where there are single columns at the middle could house loading docks for the west side of the factory. So the area would have inner roads as once suggested by Elon. But there could also be 2nd floor too for CT things?

@HMexperience

2 жыл бұрын

Or perhaps it is a new cast press area for Cybertruck. They need 8000 ton cast presses and should be larger than those in the current cast press area that are 6000 tons.

19:20 First time iv'e noticed cargo bay doors.

I'm still of the opinion that the special footing in the southern gap are needed to support some kind of heavy manufacturing equipment. Not traditional stamping machines, which require vibration isolation pits, but possibly heavy steel forming machines that will be needed to fabricate CT exoskeletons?

@reddog9978

2 жыл бұрын

those footings are only supporting the columns. you would need heavy slabs if you had heavy machines in that area

@MsAjax409

2 жыл бұрын

@@reddog9978 They're too close together to be simply for columns, that is unless the floor above will be heavily loaded.

Whatcha wanna bet the reason the southern gap footers are like that is because the more northern section is fully roofed side to side but the more southern end includes an open section where the concrete panels on the stamping cathedral are? Might not have a fully enclosed area on the south side, could include some loading docks or an area to drive up a bit.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

While the concrete wall panels indicate an exterior wall, they have had several changes in the plans.

You might be my favourite yt channel just saying

Thanks Randy!

Whoo!!

I was guessing that the heavy duty footings might be used for the CT "folding" machinery.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

The wide east-west column spacing suggests a bridge crane or very wide equipment.

@imconsequetau5275

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Yes. The short N-S spacing is also compatible with beams supporting the bridge-crane rails. Since these foundation footings are so large and also centered in the corridor, they could be for a pair of parallel bridge cranes.

The two shrink-wrapped things outside of paint look like standby emergency generators. My first guess was natural gas generators, but if they are going in the ground floor it is more likely they are diesel.

@mjcamp01

2 жыл бұрын

Surely not, I'd be really disappointed in Tesla if their emergency backup isn't powerwalls, I mean, diesel... 😱

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjcamp01 Powerwalls are too small for the factory's energy requirements, and Megapacks are not cost effective compared to generators. Plus generators can operate indefinitely. As long as the fuel supply lasts. They also have a permanent connection to the local power grid (NOT the temporary power) on the south end. Which can provide power for essential needs if they lose the substation feeds.

@mjcamp01

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn surely solar, plus megapacks would be most effective? Given the excessive price of electricity in the US. My energy bill is circa $40 a month in UK (gas and electric). So cheap in fact that solar, which is also cheaper here btw isn't cost effective either.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjcamp01 For emergency power, you can't beat the cost of generators. But more important is reliability. In an extended power outage the Megapack batteries will die. While generators will keep running as long as there is fuel.

@mjcamp01

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn well I'm certainly not qualified enough to disagree with you David, I just think if Nevada was planned to be powered by solar, and Austin smelting is natural gas anyway,, I would have hoped Austin roof space, plus solar covered car parking would have produced by far enough power for the factory with excess for the local grid, and the sun will be burning longer than any diesel generator.

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02:30 Stamping extension???

I'm gueesing the southern part with the single row of footings will be an internal loading/offloading area. Specially considering they bizarrely covered the loading docks on the west side. With a dingle central footing, there will be ample space for trucks and manouvering.

@simonfries6624

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going with the theory that it will be a robotic shipping-container management system. Trucks pull up, drop the full containers, and 3 minutes later, stacked with empties, and off they go. This would need widely spaced columns for a strong gantry crane.

@imconsequetau5275

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinasVepstas Bridge cranes?

Is is possible the south end is for cybertrucks 8 ton stamping press?

Looking forward to the "ecological paradise" coming into action. So far I see none of that.

@kennyg1358

2 жыл бұрын

Most people wait till they are done construction before landscaping.

@LinasVepstas

2 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for (1) bus route from the downtown to here. So far, there are none. (2) some reasonable bike-path/lane from downtown to here. There's one out to Decker Lake, which is the same distance, but not to here.

Unless you start saying "Giga Austin" instead of "Giga Texas", I will unsubscribe and stop viewing your blog. The Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada is called "Giga Nevada" because there is nothing else in Sparks. So calling the Tesla factory in Austin "Giga Texas" is an insult to Austin, which is a beautiful vibrant city and the capital of Texas -- just like Berlin is the capital of Germany. You don't say "Giga Germany" or "Giga China" do you? Why not? Please help us promote Austin Internationally as the beautiful location of Tesla's largest giga factory to date. Thanks.

@mrschuyler

2 жыл бұрын

You will unsubscribe because of terminology? Really? Who assigned you to the thought police? Then do so. We have enough pedantry around here already.

@jeffatchison2294

2 жыл бұрын

Bye!

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

wow. dude woke up and decided to be a mega karen today. i would care what word they use, but im so de stressed after spendig the night with your mom. giga-mom

@sammyk874

2 жыл бұрын

You won't be missed.

@mjcamp01

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 wow! 🤣🤣