Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car!

Start of another week at Giga Texas and we see changes with production as far as the number of Model Y's and Cybertrucks that have been moved off site, and production coming out of the factory ramping back up on this early morning. Hard to say for sure, but likely 100 or so Cybertrucks have left the outbound & testing lots, so inventory is definitely changing out now!

In the video introduction, I discuss several news items and a few updates for Giga Texas, including the delivery of a slag skimmer at the casting machine section, job openings for furnace technicians at the DIE shop, and the Boring Company posting about their tunneling operation and the Prufrock 3 at Giga Texas, potentially pointing to the start of tunneling operations this week!

I also discuss a new trend of Cybertruck reselling happening, with prices climbing into the quarter million dollar or more range! How this is happening, given Tesla's purchase agreement prohibiting reselling within the first year of ownership is unknown, as is what Tesla's actions might be. In any case, an interesting development!

Timestamps:
Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 3:46
Drone flight footage & infographics: 4:08 to 33:01

Other highlights from today include:

The Boring company shows operations are nearing, with the belt conveyor system being installed on the beams and "A-frame" structures, leading form the belt cassette to the Prufrock 3, and a small "train" device used to move concrete tunnel sections to the Prufrock 3. This will allow the tunnel section to be installed during the tunneling operation. We also see crews working on cooling pipes and systems and generators being refueled. I hope we see tunneling this week!

On the south end, the extension work continues, and the steel structure is growing larger, particularly on the southwest side and the second crane is setting up on the east side, possibly to being adding more steel in that area too. It appears the new steel structure is starting to fill in the gap with the original structure, and in two places is now attached to the original structure. Another big development is the installation of the first glass panes on the south end of the structure, starting from the southeast angled corner and working to the west. More crews were installing metal frames for the glass along the 2nd floor beam and the roof attachment points.

The multi-level parking garage has gained even more size in the north portion of the structure, while crews were pouring concrete on the west roof ramp section. More concrete parts such as beams, columns and Double "T" panels were being installed in the middle section next to the second set of vehicle ramps. Conduit, concrete vaults and additional trenchwork was underway on the south, west and north sides of the structure.

On the east side of casting, the concrete saw-cutting and removal effort seems to have ended (for now), and crews are using a water and vacuum system with many bore holes to apparently prepare excavations in a controlled manner and avoid damaging subterranean pipes and structures where the concrete was removed. This implies the excavation work here may not be a deep or wide area, but instead a series of trenches.

The cathode and DIE shop complex of structures is getting additional asphalt paving on the south end today, while the crash testing facility new concrete "tank" is having additional work around its perimeter, possibly preparing this area for a concrete slab to finish the surface treatment. It is still uncertain what this is for, but the leading theories is a dunk tank in cast of fires following crash testing.

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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 YouTube 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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