Tesla Gigafactory Texas Is Officially OPEN!!

the tesla gigafactory in austin texas is officially open for business this now joins fremont california shanghai china and berlin germany in a growing list of international locations where the company produces their electric vehicles with an official cyber rodeo opening party on april 7th elon musk will deliver the first model y vehicles from giga texas which are also the first in a new generation of tesla vehicle architecture that incorporates their in-house developed 4680 battery cell and structural battery pack these cars may look like a regular tesla model y on the outside but on the inside the made in texas vehicles are a great leap forward in design and technology this is all made possible by one of the largest and most advanced manufacturing plants in the entire world and unlike the odyssey of its sister factory in germany giga texas has come together at a spectacular pace and will be a legitimate game changer for tesla's operations in north america so today we are talking about everything that has gone into making gigatexas what it is today and where this factory will take us in the future let's get going the sheer size of this factory is pretty difficult to grapple with the middle section is three quarters of a mile long with one quarter mile in width to walk a lap around the entire thing would be nearly two miles in distance there are four levels to the factory that make up a height of about seven stories and the total floor space adds up to around 8 million square feet underneath that monolithic diamond shape that we see today is actually three individual buildings running lengthwise across the factory the reason that tesla did this was to allow for covered roadways to run through the interior of the gigafactory this way they can drive full tractor trailers in the center of the plant to make pickups and deliveries directly to the location that they are needed tesla did something similar with the new gigafactory in germany they surrounded the entire perimeter of the building with docking bays for semi-truck trailers to allow targeted deliveries but this still would require internal transportation for supplies to reach the center of the factory floor giga berlin though is much smaller by comparison to gigatexas so it doesn't matter as much so far the best look at the interior of the factory we have seen has come from this guy dj ski i don't know who he is either but for whatever reason tesla gave him a tour of the factory and let him record some video for instagram that was published on march 24th so the first thing that we can see is that tesla has a model y hanging from the ceiling at a weird angle like it's about to crash into the floor or something i don't know about that either but as dj ski moves through the factory we can see a lot of model y vehicles and parts in various stages of construction seemingly all painted either black or blue we can also see that there is a lot of wide open space inside the factory that has yet to be developed model y production at giga texas is just step one at some point in the next year this will be joined by production lines for the tesla cyber truck and even their gigantic electric semi truck there is also going to be a full production line for the 4680 battery inside the factory as well gigatexas is the closest thing that we have seen yet to elon musk's grand vision of an alien dreadnought factory that can produce full vehicles purely through automation a machine that builds machines in order for that to be possible then we need every aspect of the vehicle produced under one roof or at least on the same factory site tesla's plant in fremont california is a very bad example of this concept they can't even fit all of the necessary production equipment for the vehicle body under one roof they had to resort to installing the gigapress machines in the parking lot and putting up giant tents to build the model 3 and model y batteries and packs from fremont vehicles are manufactured in nevada and shipped over for final assembly it's pretty far from full automation but hey you got to start somewhere the gigafactory in shanghai is a pretty close approximation to the autonomous alien dreadnought idea they did manage to fit all of the vehicle production equipment inside the factory they don't have to make any parts in the parking lot and they may not have on-site battery production but they do have tesla's battery cell manufacturing partners in china like catl very close by we've known for a while now that tesla plans to cover the entire roof of gigatexas with solar panels observers have already noticed that they plan to spell out the word tesla across the top with strategically placed gaps in the panels something new that we are just learning is that tesla has plans to install a large battery storage facility next to the factory that will manage the power generated by those panels in a permit application filed with the city of austin tesla is proposing to build utility and associated improvements on a 53.27 acre site at 12601 tesla road next to giga texas the application was filed on march 25th with the project name giga texas lcra permanent switchyard and bess giving a few hints about what those utilities and associated improvements will be that abbreviation stands for battery energy storage system which in this case would be the tesla mega pack unit enough to cover 53 acres tesla says that they can deploy one gigawatt hour of storage capacity with mega pack on just three acres of land so i don't know how to calculate the maximum capacity when you factor in all of the support infrastructure and other stuff that will take up space on site but needless to say they are looking at installing a very substantial energy storage system alongside the factory one quick question for you would anyone out there be interested in joining a new tesla and elon musk focused discord well we've just launched our very own here at the tesla space and we'd like to invite everyone to join and help get this thing off the ground we're really hoping to be able to replicate the fun informative vibe of the channel in a more interactive discord community so please come with open minds and good vibes only and we can get some like-minded people together to have some fun informative discussions on our favorite topics elon musk tesla spacex and more the link is down below in the description like we said off the top the model y that is being produced at giga texas is a different internal design than the model y made at fremont that american consumers have been receiving for the past two years gigatexas is making full use of die casting technology with a large section of the production floor dedicated to tesla's gigapress machine these are humongous mechanical presses that use 6 000 tons of force to press molten aluminum alloy into molds these casting machines are powerful enough to create both the front and rear quarters of the vehicle frame using one single piece for each no other automaker and maybe no other manufacturer of any kind has ever been able to implement such a large single piece casting into their production design the upshot of this technology is pretty simple instead of sticking together a bunch of small parts to try and make one big one tesla can use this injection method to form liquid metal directly into one large solid part tesla have been doing this successfully for about a year now with the rear section of the model y frame that's one of the parking lot additions at the fremont factory a giga press but production at giga texas doubles that up with a casted front section as well so the entire frame from the driver's feet to the front bumper is all one solid piece of aluminum this helps to make the car stronger lighter more resistant to corrosion and less susceptible to manufacturing defects and because that isn't enough these cars also get tesla's latest and greatest in battery and pack design the 4680 cell in a structural pack so we've already talked for hours about this energy system in the past definitely check out our video the real reason tesla developed the 4680 battery for a more thorough explanation but in the short form this is an extremely efficient and powerful new battery design that tesla is currently manufacturing at their own production line in california they are targeting a much faster and cheaper battery to produce than their current generation of cell that has been going into the model 3 and model y eventually tesla will soon be manufacturing the 4680 on site at giga texas and eventually at giga berlin as well in a separate building located adjacent to the existing vehicle factory a special aspect of these cells is that they will integrate into what elon musk calls a structural battery pack so much the same idea as the front and rear casting tesla are replacing a bunch of small parts which go into the pack which then get bolted into the frame of the vehicle like a box within a box within a box kind of deal the new cells go straight into a pack without the need for modules and then that pack is attached between the front and rear giga castings without the need for a separate frame the pack is the frame the top of the battery becomes the floor of the car and the seats are actually direct mounted to the top of the pack and same story again stronger lighter more efficient and lower margin for error the simplest path is most often the correct one unfortunately we are still very much in the dark about what the particular specs of these texas made model ys will be we can clearly see that hundreds of them have already been produced and staged in the parking lot surrounding the factory most of them have been black and blue but recently we've also seen white and even red cars coming out of the production floor so we know the paint shop is up and running at nearly full capacity right now at first we were only seeing the long range model y variant with the standard silver wheels but recently we've also been catching vehicles with the black coated rims so these could be more long range vehicles with the induction wheel upgrade or even the performance variant of the model y that is only available with the blacked out uber turbine wheels this is already a big step up from giga berlin which by the time of its first deliveries was only producing the model y performance in black and white not much variety at all the only thing we don't really know about this texas made model y is whether or not the specs in regards to range and acceleration will differ at all from the fremont made car given the advancements in battery cell and pack technology it's definitely possible that tesla could spec these up to be an improved performer in both categories but then that makes things complicated with the product line and setting customers expectations as to what car they're actually going to receive chances are the texas car and the california car are going to be identical on the spec sheet even if they are wildly different in physical design 90 of consumers will not notice or even care about the difference it's basically just people like us that are going to obsess over this stuff but we're not normal of course having said all that now elon musk is probably going to announce a ton of new details about the model y on his twitter that debunk our video before we even publish it but such is life after that the big question remains is just how many vehicles will they be able to build in the first year of production at gigatexas let us know your forecasts in the comment section below two 100 thousand stay tuned for updates don't forget to give this video a thumbs up today if you liked it that is so important for getting our content out to more people if you enjoy the content then you'd probably also enjoy our weekly newsletter so sign up the link down below at the teslaspace.com a huge thank you to all of our patreon supporters who are listed 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Length: 13min 20sec (800 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 03 2022