Official Render Discussion 7 October 2022 Giga Texas Construction Update (07:45AM)

Gigafactory Texas on 7 October 2022! This is where the Cyber Truck and Model Y will be built!

Happy Friday! Thank you for watching today’s video and I hope you have an excellent weekend! But before that, check out the video with incredibly vivid oranges, reds and yellows in this morning’s sunrise! I was able to get a full-factory length shot with the sunrise from the west side of the highway looking to the east! What a view!
In the video intro, we discuss the “Cyber Berm” lights and compare to the official Tesla rendering of Giga Texas to show what we may expect to see over the coming weeks and months as more finishing construction work progresses to improve the overall architectural elements of the main site, and point out some differences from what we can see at the actual site, possibly indicating a number of plan changes since this rendering was revealed in April this year.
Timestamps:
Official rendering discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 5:09
Drone flight footage & infographics: 5:15 to 29:41

Here are some of the highlights from today's video:

Starting off at the south end, we once again see many Model Y’s exiting the factory and being temporarily staged on the (former) transport pickup location while they wait to be moved to the new east side staging and transport lot.

Also on the south end, the concrete demolition work continues and is expanding on the west and now south sides of the concrete lot, while on the east side, a large section of concrete has been saw cut in preparation of demolition and concrete removal work. In addition, south of the pond, we see much of the steel parts have been relocated to the new staging location just southeast of the stamping machine structure.

Also southeast of the stamping machine structure, we see some big changes at the horizontal drill site, with a large excavation now made in the center and what appears to be a bend in the larges pipe pulled under the river. This may indicate a different route for the pipes than just to the north along the east side of the main factory. We also see a large trench box nearby, which is used to help prevent trench collapse and improve safety for the workers.

On the Body-in-White (BIW) roof, we see some big progress at the opened section with six HVAC ducts now installed on the frame mounted on the exposed beams. We also see a small protruding short wall section that will likely frame the opening and allow for a raised transition to the rest of the roof.

At the east Warehouse on Wheels (WOW) Yard, we see yet another new graded section covered with gravel mix to expand the overall size. It appears the WOW fence in this area is being prepared for expanding to enclose this section in the rest of the overall Yard.

At the battery cathode plant, we see a frenzy of activity, particularly with interior wall, HVAC and pipe installation, exterior concrete walls, ground slab and deep foundation rebar and concrete construction and a newly poured rectangular concrete slab on the north end of the east staging section.

North of the battery cathode plant, more earthwork and grade improvement continues, while a new fenced off double section has been added, possibly for protection of some equipment or specialized materials. We also see workshop, trailers and steel component staging for the firs time in this area.

Big progress at the electrical substation construction site, with vertical steel assembly, footing, deep bore drilling and material deliveries onto the main graded section. The steel control room/building now has all walls and most of the interior rooms constructed, and soon the roof will be installed, closing off the building.

On the north end of the building, the paint shop was very busy with new deliveries of plastic wrapped metal components. We get some peeks inside through open cargo bays on top of the temporary platforms. Also, on the ground floor, through an open cargo doorway, we see a Model Y body on a red platform.

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Drones used are DJI Mavic Mini and Mavic Air 2.

Drone flight over Giga Texas is with permission of Tesla and CEO Elon Musk

[perlaursen]

Best Tesla channel for everyone. Also for the 90% of us, that has english as a second language, because the speech stands crystal clear, without annoying disturbing muzak. Thank you Joe.

[kevintheboxer]

20:38 is a kitchen being made. I work at Tesla

[unbreakableldorado]

Joe your updates are absolutely great, thank you so much for the continuous effort 🙏 it's almost unbelievable that it's possible to get access like that for free and all the time, just years ago magazines or blog articles were everything you could get on a topic like that

[DessieDoolan]

Thanks Joe.
7:18. Starlink/SpaceX site. Bridge crane beams. 24 now in this shot. Includes 12 removed from the south east corner of Casting as well as those removed from the north west.
White tanks. About the same number went into BIW as have gone into Cathode.
9:15. HDD site. Pipeline turned west. Elbow or ’T’?
10:16. Easement. Stack of blue potable water main. Could be the reason for relocating the Steel Fabrication Yard. More at 11:38.
10:30. Steel Fabrication Yard. Beams, beams, beams, beams, beams………………..no columns.
12:12. GA, Level 3 loading platform. Construction lighting only as far as the eye can see.
13:48. BIW roof. In Joe’s photos it’s possible to zoom in through the roof beams to see the pipework connected to the chillers by Evapco. West wall, bulk insulation laid horizontally.
15:16. WOW yard, east of. New workshop and an ever growing pile of steel. Columns to the left (baseplates), beams to the right.
16:07. Cathode. Clear now there will be a row of louvres or grilles along the west side. Too high for windows. Stack of grille like components at the foot of the light tower. Might be those.
16:42. Cathode, west. Couple of dozen square slab thickenings in an obvious grid pattern for columns over. There’s a building sized stack of columns and beams to the left. To the right U shaped slab thickening, for external plant perhaps, or the tanks.
17:54. Far north east. Clearing through the trees. New location for the production vehicle hardstand.
18:22. North of Cathode. Fence to keep people from peering in.
18:40. Cathode. Small outbuilding. A permit was lodged for a 2500 sq ft building a month or so ago. Likely this one. Vertical rebar for a concrete wall section in the closest corner.
19:46. Cathode. 3 large set-downs are pits, not footings. There’ll be formwork for walls in there shortly.
20:28. Cathode, inside. Large circular ductwork reducing in size as it gets closer to the floor.
20:47. Project X. There’s 50 of those a/c units on the roof (if that’s in fact what they are). Plus 6 huge extractor fans. Cool it down quick, shift it out quick.
25:26. Northend. Sidewalk/footpath. Going to a lot of effort with the kerb and gutter.
27:45. Westside panel storage yard. Removed white painted beams. Floor slab sections. Stack of auger/screw piles to the right. There was a truck attempting a delivery of same to Cathode a few weeks ago (not this stack).
28:22. Westside panel storage yard at Tesla Road. No columns. Infill floors for within the existing building.

[jbarvideo]

Fabulous update Joe. Thanks for your continued updates.

[pinkelephants]

Surprising to see the dust dampening water truck spraying the roadway on the far western side of the highway at the beginning of the video and so early on in the day. I wouldn’t have thought they'd have bothered seeing as it's only leading to a materials storage lot and there's not going to be any construction taking place there for quite some time to come.

[charleshaggard]

Thanks Joe. I read a post that stated that the 9K ton press arrived at the Port of Houston on Sept 28. I certainly don't know if the statement is true.

[cakesken]

It was that nice, had to watch it twice. Best reality video on the box. Thank you.

[eltonray]

Joe, Thank you for the early mornings and many flights. Been a while since the cell phone videos.

[eugeniustheodidactus]

Joe, I notice at 8:56 that the contrasting paint colors on the concrete creates a fabulous 3D effect on the building. If they go with this it would be brilliant. No need for _( use your own description here )_ euro art-murals.

[scrtsqrl]

Didn't Elon post on Twitter a few months ago that the building would expand to the south by 500ft in length? That would explain the demo in that south lot.

[bhollar]

Crazy idea...anyway someone in the quad team getting to the Houston docks to try to get a peek of the IDRA casting equipment unloading or loading on trucks?

[GoCoyote]

A fantastic sunrise for your fantastic efforts. I would appreciate a lower level and more comprehensive survey of the western areas outside of the material laydown yard, such as the water management areas next to the river and alongside the road, and the other areas to the north and west of the river and the road.

[perlaursen]

Hey Joe. I wonder when the new IDRA 9000 will arrive in Austin? I do especially look forward to see the new STØTEK (GigaPizza) furnace, that feeds the Giga 9000 press with floating alluminium. STØTEK company are situated close to my place in Mainland Denmark, and we are very proud that our community can provide products that Tesla finds usefull. Thank you Elon for chosing STØTEK and Mainland Denmark.

[henryD]

THANK YOU! For showing the context the of the setting the factory is in.
Videos are always sort of claustrophobic, camera always pointed inward. No clue as to what's outside the property.
Maybe at times you could say This is Austin downtown skyline, This is Bergstrom airport control tower, and similar.
I really enjoyed seeing the nearby Colorado River and a full tour around Gigatexas Texas.

[larryparrish]

those metal trailers added southeast of battery cathode bldg may be long term temporary cooling towers. Not actually the same design as what we have used at our plant but similar. long term, I mean 2-3 years. easy set up & connect up, quick & easy tear down & removal. wait and see if blue piping is ran towards them.

[patricksherry]

I think where they are cutting up the cement lot, is where they are going to build supercharging stations with solar canopies like they do at Giga Shanghai. They are already running out of superchargers to charge newly built Ys. With the progress of the ramp they will need many more superchargers to prevent a bottleneck in that stage of production/logistics prep.

[douglswelsher]

Awesome Job, My friend. Keep them coming. Thumbs-up. Peace and love to one and all

[budgetaudiophilelife-long]

Since you mentioned it WE REALLY LOVE ❤️ ☀️ THE SUNRISE 🤗💚💚💚

[DavidJohnson-tvnn]

@ 23:30 (Substation) My guess is that the east side will be a mirror of the west. Each side of the substation will connect to one of the three phase transmission line circuits. The output will be at two large 345 kV transformers (large excavations to the south). But that is just speculation.