It's clear the main entrance is intended to be viewed face on from ground level, where the black marble on the ground echos features on the building itself, a form of visual symmetry that is striking.
So many projects are so close to completion! I think that any Cybertruck we see in the lot right now is still hand-built. Once the line has enough automation to start up, we should see a minimum of 20 produced in one day. These are probably showroom models while NHTSA and the EPA drag their feet. When we see more than 10 Cybertruck in 1 day, I will get excited. Hoping to see the Megapack get gravel soon, and maybe see some of those giant coils of wire running into conduit.
I received at least three adverts during my view. I don't normally see any adverts, I'm wondering if something has changed. At 25:45 those big reels of cable are for the high voltage side, 345 kV going up to the pylons. Thanks, Joe.
Thanks Joe 5:36. New EOL transport yard. Drain is the same as installed in the east parking lot, a slot drain. Small slot fitted the length of the drain. ua-cam.com/video/dZpiAjp97oY/v-deo.html 6:49. New EOL building. Hadn’t noticed before. Purlin spacing closes up towards the ridge. 7:12. New EOL site. HDD operation. Seems to have halted. Nothing moved since the last video. 7:40. Highway berm. HDD project. No change other than the drilling mud drying out. 7:56. GA apron. Stair shifted away from the loading dock opening. 8:11. Main Entrance. Seems some issues with the Stoneglass. Another couple of panels may have been replaced. 9:02. Southend. Stands that suspend the rebar cages in the bored shafts show where the CFA piles have been constructed close to the building. 11:42. Stamping 2 extension. Wall sheeting. Lighting shows the steps between first and second layers. Gravel ramp to a future door opening. 13:19. WOW yard. Concrete placed either end of the culvert. 13:59. Parking Garage site. Rolling out the geo-mesh. Gravel over. 15:41. Site security access road. Delivery for the ramp up. 16:12. Transport yard. Cybertruck. Checking panel gaps. 18:14. Die Shop. Utilities duct/trench. Presumably will extend across to the plant structure at Cathode. Seems to align with the 4 vertical white pipes on the plant platform. 18:25. Cathode north. Roof. Lightning protection system visible around the back of the parapet. 20:06. Cathode South. Loading dock signage also reads TESLA at the bottom. Small crane inside. 20:24. Cathode east. Temporary stud wall and sheeting removed. Wall panel to be installed perhaps. Donaldson Torit, makers of dust filtration equipment. Similar at the Cell Test Lab, and along the west wall of Casting. More items stacked bottom left 22:48. 21:18. Cathode east, apron. Left. Pair of white frames with hopper bottoms. 23:24. Rental yard. Far north. Dumping earth along the fence line. Been doing the same to the east for a year. 23:54. Far north. Bottom right. Small copse of trees is the Cemetery site. Quite visible in the Google Earth image of 3/2003. 24:04. Far north. The Dailey farmhouse from comments under Joe’s previous video. Local school nearby is Dailey Middle School. 25:43. Tesla Energy Monopole. 3 cable reels/spools/drums. Presumably for the lines across to the north end of the BESS switchyard. 26:11. New Switchyard/Substation. Cables between the MegaVault and second transformer have been run, not connected. 28:16. Paint, apron. Trolleys. 28:49. Battery apron. Beams nearest the road, some have been removed from inside.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn It could be. It was pretty hot when they were installing. It has cooled down a good deal since. We have a lot of road damage from the August heat. Buckling from swelling and air gaps underneath due to clay shrinkage.
@@scottgaree7667 8:11. Some of the vertical edge segments have fallen off and needed to be re-adhered. 3 or 4 of the middle segments removed or replaced. Might have been fit incorrectly or were blemished. With slabs that big and gloss black, literally variations in height at the joint of half a mm would show up. Great example here where the portal frame over is reflected in the Stoneglas, ua-cam.com/video/PnKe2UKJfDs/v-deo.html Staining visible at 8:11 suggests they might have been replaced a second time, or recaulked/grouted. West (right) end of the trapezoid on the underlying apron, lime or something seems to be leaching out of the adhesive. Which is weird, I thought they caulked the joints between the Stoneglass. I guess it could be the heat adding to the problem, inclined to think they may have pushed the recommended installation requirements just a little too far.
Construction to resume in the spring, they appear to have closed the factory end extension and placed temporary roads until the spring. I think the multi story car park construction will now be prioritised.
I am thinking that the new roadway paving a the south end is for fire marshal approval for manufacturing use of existing south end building. There is paving up to all the exterior egress doors, and the paved roadway will be for dedicated fire lanes. As one of the east west sections of the road nearest the building is blocked, the paved north south spurs will provide fire lane access. Once the CFA is done in the west, the roadway paving will probably complete.
I think you are spot-on. Didn't catch it in the photos, but it looks like fire department access and emergency egress pathways. I do wonder though how it will work with active construction in the area; usually you would have scaffolding for fallling debris protection or something similar.
Thanks! Eye-opener for me. Some time ago I tried to research Fire&Safety aspects GT and how it is done in America/Texas and what struck me was that the local fire marshals have practically the final word if not absolute power. Very interesting! Earlier there was speculation that the south end extension of Stamping II would include an E-W drive-through for large trucks to be offloaded with an extended gantry crane, but I don't think the new roadway paving would support that... for now. As mentioned elsewhere, there may be a pause in construction there, with only the CFA work to be completed.
That parking area @ 17:00 that they sealed has had the marking for the parking stalls realigned to be running north-south instead of east-west as it previously was.
The beams and columns in white r called steel belts. The steel cross members r called pulling. The horizontal steel on walls r called girts. U have done a great job learning about construction and design. Thanks😊
Joe, at 20.33 those Donaldson filter assemblies look similar to their sandblasting downflow Torit filter assemblies. Not saying it's for sandblasting but could be for dust collection and air filtration. If you look lower they are coupled to a high speed axial fan after the collection box. Notice there is no lagging on the steel ducting inbound or outbound so you would assume that the airflow is not hot. Any idea what section of factory is below this? Forging or stamping perhaps?
Another very good episode. One question please. Do you know why it seems there are no more solar panels being added to the roof? It's been quite a while since they worked on that area.
Looks like the focus at Austin is getting the Model Y line up to speed with its two variants - structural and non structural packs. The assembly line equipment around the entrances indicates a line is not complete - CT?
EOL facility: @ 4:59 There appears to be a significant increase in elevation over the WOW lot below it @ 5:20 One duct-bank and 3 other trenches across the road at this point.
The idea that a disused and run down farm house would be ideal to serve as a security outpost was far fetched anyway. If a security outpost is needed, you build it exactly like you'd want it to be and exactly where you'd like it to be instead of mending and adapting some ramshackle shed in the middle of a field.
There was a great family that previously lived in that house. One ended up being Val Victorian of my class. It fell into disrepair so badly it was not worth fixing.@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn… buys it and uses the land to create a cleaner, healthier planet. Of all the sacrifices of natural areas for industrial use, I’d give this one a pass. Perhaps your sentiment is better applied to whatever land is used by Mattel to house a Barbie doll factory.
May be I missed it in a previous clip but is the cathode building meant to produce a dry cathode or wet cathode? I know Tesla was / is struggling with mass production of dry cathode. Doe anybody know?
Because the cathode building is so massive, it may well be able to ship the produced cathode chemistries (the final mix of active ingredients + secret sauce) to both the DBE process in the main building, the conventional (wet) process in Giga Nevada (Panasonic) and future 4680 DBE production lines such as for the GN expansion and Giga Berlin. Right now Lithium and other ingredients are shipped back and forth over the globe but Tesla is aiming to set up their own vertical integration with a Lithium Refinery being built specifically for producing the exact quality of feedstock for this cathode factory. From this centralized vertical production I don't see why they couldn't supply their other battery plants, dry or wet.
I might add that the EU is talking to protect their car industries by heaping environmental requirements on outside production chains, read China. So for GS vehicles to enter Europe the indeed messy production chain for Lithium Hydroxide in China may well have to be eliminated by supplying GS also with feedstocks from the CC..GT production lines.
Sanitary sewer. Stormwater drains happen to be passing by. The outlets for this lift station is a pair of HDPE pipes of 8" and 12" diameter as per some City of Austin documentation.
16:30 What do you suppose is the purpose of the Cybertruck's being covered? Everybody knows what's under the covers, we all know what they look like… Thoughts?
Dust, sun effects (fading). Sun/heat effects is a thing in Texas. Plastic suffer most. Interior plastics that is. Also exterior. The stories I could tell (had a Ford Fairmont that the A/C controls body deteriorated with continued Texas heat applied; plastics become brittle with time.)
@@jbak6892 re: "why are all the Model Y's not covered?" Well, you're asking the wrong guy on that, I only know plastics, what they do upon exposure to UV sunlight and heat in the Texas sun, I don't know beans about the different Tesla models ...
Did anybody catch the car that was covered next to the cover cybertruck at the crash test facility? Its smaller than the CT but is also covered and has a very different rear shape to the model y?
345 kV duct-bank: @ 25:44 Three large spools of cable on flatbed trucks. Likely for the 345 kV duct-bank. LCRA Substation: @ 26:10 Cables pulled through the 8 conduits that connect the east transformer to the Tesla Enclosure/Mega-vault. No connections to transformer bus-bars yet. Second duct-bank to factory: South of Tesla Enclosure/Mega-vault: @ 26:12 Ongoing work to pull cable. Looks like 3 conduits are filled, a 4th conduit is in the process of being filled. The other end of the cable pull is in the north parking lot... @ 27:16 Where a lot of cables can be seen in the vault on the left. Note: The can't pull cable beyond this point until they finish construction on the duct-banks, connecting them to the main power vaults on the east side of casting. BESS Substation: @ 26:56 (Left of steel structure) Excavating new trench. No cables pulled into backup power duct-banks yet.
I'm thinking that none of the 345 kV is buried; What is the need to bury it? The secondary (distribution) level, yes. Above ground for 345 kV is a better solution all the way around in particular in the case of lightning or storm damage repair (think: Grapefruit sized hail in Texas. It is a thing.) Unless you see BIG (insulation) bushings sitting on or next to the ground - it isn't 345 kV line being run ... note much above ground 'real estate' in a substation plant is devoted to HV disconnects (for isolation of circuits in the plant).
@@uploadJ The 345 kV underground link is mentioned in the interconnection agreement. It starts here @ 25:41 (Right) At the east monopole. The pole with the cross arms sticking out at the bottom. And terminates here @ 26:51 at the BESS substation (behind the excavator). The conduit is encased in a concrete duct-bank, and has been under construction for the last two months. The underground route is necessary because it has to cross under several other 345 kV lines.
The driver side fender was peeled back. It is not structural, not an exoskeleton but rather a piece of SS sheet metal attached using clips or screws to the front casting.
Especially the physics and resulting mechanics of a ~3 ton vehicle impacting an immovable solid surface. Extra points for comparing the experience between a unibody and exoskeleton construction. Please also explain the finer details of the differences between those two architectures.
This would be a poor rating for the Cybertruck compared to the crash test of the 2023 Ranger which received a marginal rating without breaking any windows and without affecting the doors.
In addition, crash tests aren’t to test how the vehicle looks after the crash, it’s how the crash instruments, ie the crash test dummies, look and read after the crash. Now there are some low speed bumper tests that might have appearance criteria but the real crash tests are about G forces, passenger area intrusion and such. You can’t tell anything about those from a drone shot.
just a thought.. maybe Tesla could dismantle the temporary switch yard and move it to Corpus Christi and reassemble it there for their use, as they ramp up construction. If it was enough energy for Giga Texas' needs during construction, it may work there as well.
When they crash test a Cybertruck, are they testing a Cybertruck or testing concrete walls for strength 😅
Thanks Joe for your preview and engineering comments during your flyover.
You're welcome Jay!
It's clear the main entrance is intended to be viewed face on from ground level, where the black marble on the ground echos features on the building itself, a form of visual symmetry that is striking.
Great flight Joe! So excited to see CT's rolling off the line!
So many projects are so close to completion! I think that any Cybertruck we see in the lot right now is still hand-built. Once the line has enough automation to start up, we should see a minimum of 20 produced in one day. These are probably showroom models while NHTSA and the EPA drag their feet. When we see more than 10 Cybertruck in 1 day, I will get excited. Hoping to see the Megapack get gravel soon, and maybe see some of those giant coils of wire running into conduit.
I received at least three adverts during my view. I don't normally see any adverts, I'm wondering if something has changed.
At 25:45 those big reels of cable are for the high voltage side, 345 kV going up to the pylons. Thanks, Joe.
Thanks Joe for your wonderful informative show!
Thanks Joe
5:36. New EOL transport yard. Drain is the same as installed in the east parking lot, a slot drain. Small slot fitted the length of the drain. ua-cam.com/video/dZpiAjp97oY/v-deo.html
6:49. New EOL building. Hadn’t noticed before. Purlin spacing closes up towards the ridge.
7:12. New EOL site. HDD operation. Seems to have halted. Nothing moved since the last video.
7:40. Highway berm. HDD project. No change other than the drilling mud drying out.
7:56. GA apron. Stair shifted away from the loading dock opening.
8:11. Main Entrance. Seems some issues with the Stoneglass. Another couple of panels may have been replaced.
9:02. Southend. Stands that suspend the rebar cages in the bored shafts show where the CFA piles have been constructed close to the building.
11:42. Stamping 2 extension. Wall sheeting. Lighting shows the steps between first and second layers.
Gravel ramp to a future door opening.
13:19. WOW yard. Concrete placed either end of the culvert.
13:59. Parking Garage site. Rolling out the geo-mesh. Gravel over.
15:41. Site security access road. Delivery for the ramp up.
16:12. Transport yard. Cybertruck. Checking panel gaps.
18:14. Die Shop. Utilities duct/trench. Presumably will extend across to the plant structure at Cathode. Seems to align with the 4 vertical white pipes on the plant platform.
18:25. Cathode north. Roof. Lightning protection system visible around the back of the parapet.
20:06. Cathode South. Loading dock signage also reads TESLA at the bottom.
Small crane inside.
20:24. Cathode east. Temporary stud wall and sheeting removed. Wall panel to be installed perhaps.
Donaldson Torit, makers of dust filtration equipment. Similar at the Cell Test Lab, and along the west wall of Casting. More items stacked bottom left 22:48.
21:18. Cathode east, apron. Left. Pair of white frames with hopper bottoms.
23:24. Rental yard. Far north. Dumping earth along the fence line. Been doing the same to the east for a year.
23:54. Far north. Bottom right. Small copse of trees is the Cemetery site. Quite visible in the Google Earth image of 3/2003.
24:04. Far north. The Dailey farmhouse from comments under Joe’s previous video.
Local school nearby is Dailey Middle School.
25:43. Tesla Energy Monopole. 3 cable reels/spools/drums. Presumably for the lines across to the north end of the BESS switchyard.
26:11. New Switchyard/Substation. Cables between the MegaVault and second transformer have been run, not connected.
28:16. Paint, apron. Trolleys.
28:49. Battery apron. Beams nearest the road, some have been removed from inside.
8:11 Just a guess, but maybe issues with expansion in the hot Texas sun?
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn It could be. It was pretty hot when they were installing. It has cooled down a good deal since. We have a lot of road damage from the August heat. Buckling from swelling and air gaps underneath due to clay shrinkage.
@@scottgaree7667 8:11. Some of the vertical edge segments have fallen off and needed to be re-adhered.
3 or 4 of the middle segments removed or replaced. Might have been fit incorrectly or were blemished. With slabs that big and gloss black, literally variations in height at the joint of half a mm would show up. Great example here where the portal frame over is reflected in the Stoneglas, ua-cam.com/video/PnKe2UKJfDs/v-deo.html
Staining visible at 8:11 suggests they might have been replaced a second time, or recaulked/grouted. West (right) end of the trapezoid on the underlying apron, lime or something seems to be leaching out of the adhesive. Which is weird, I thought they caulked the joints between the Stoneglass.
I guess it could be the heat adding to the problem, inclined to think they may have pushed the recommended installation requirements just a little too far.
6:49 - Roof mounted HVAC?
@@patrickkenny2077 6:49. Could be. I guess that's where it's more likely to be located.
Thanks, Joe. Great video as always.
Excellent reporting as usual !!!
Great job Joe!
Construction to resume in the spring, they appear to have closed the factory end extension and placed temporary roads until the spring. I think the multi story car park construction will now be prioritised.
I am thinking that the new roadway paving a the south end is for fire marshal approval for manufacturing use of existing south end building. There is paving up to all the exterior egress doors, and the paved roadway will be for dedicated fire lanes. As one of the east west sections of the road nearest the building is blocked, the paved north south spurs will provide fire lane access. Once the CFA is done in the west, the roadway paving will probably complete.
I doubt they are egress doors. We haven't seen a single egress entering or leaving.
I think you are spot-on. Didn't catch it in the photos, but it looks like fire department access and emergency egress pathways. I do wonder though how it will work with active construction in the area; usually you would have scaffolding for fallling debris protection or something similar.
I agree completely. Something I didn't think about until you mentioned it.
Thanks! Eye-opener for me. Some time ago I tried to research Fire&Safety aspects GT and how it is done in America/Texas and what struck me was that the local fire marshals have practically the final word if not absolute power. Very interesting!
Earlier there was speculation that the south end extension of Stamping II would include an E-W drive-through for large trucks to be offloaded with an extended gantry crane, but I don't think the new roadway paving would support that... for now. As mentioned elsewhere, there may be a pause in construction there, with only the CFA work to be completed.
That parking area @ 17:00 that they sealed has had the marking for the parking stalls realigned to be running north-south instead of east-west as it previously was.
Drove by today after work and the Cybertrucks (uncovered) were being loaded onto a transporter.
The beams and columns in white r called steel belts. The steel cross members r called pulling. The horizontal steel on walls r called girts. U have done a great job learning about construction and design. Thanks😊
Thanks JOE!
Donaldson Torit: dust filtration systems
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Joe, at 20.33 those Donaldson filter assemblies look similar to their sandblasting downflow Torit filter assemblies. Not saying it's for sandblasting but could be for dust collection and air filtration. If you look lower they are coupled to a high speed axial fan after the collection box. Notice there is no lagging on the steel ducting inbound or outbound so you would assume that the airflow is not hot. Any idea what section of factory is below this? Forging or stamping perhaps?
Another very good episode. One question please. Do you know why it seems there are no more solar panels being added to the roof? It's been quite a while since they worked on that area.
I notice they are laid out to spell 'TESLA" ... or I should say, where there are not panels it says 'TESLA".
@25:51 in the black and blue are the high Voltage wires are there Yay !!!
Looks like the focus at Austin is getting the Model Y line up to speed with its two variants - structural and non structural packs. The assembly line equipment around the entrances indicates a line is not complete - CT?
EOL facility: @ 4:59 There appears to be a significant increase in elevation over the WOW lot below it
@ 5:20 One duct-bank and 3 other trenches across the road at this point.
15:44 that appears to be one of the vents that are replacing the windows by the new furnaces
15:44. Think it's a ramp.
I'm a retired architect. I would have required all my staff to watch your vides.
Merci👍👍👍
What is the tune at the beginning of this video? Sounds “western “, and wondered what the song was. Thanks
Been watching your reports from day one. Thanks. I was hoping the cybertruck would be more consumer friendly........
I hope they deliver Cybers with the covers as I have to park mine on the driveway. I have two first day preorders’….maybe covers will be an accessory.
Meanwhile in Detroit work is progressing on the picket line.
The idea that a disused and run down farm house would be ideal to serve as a security outpost was far fetched anyway. If a security outpost is needed, you build it exactly like you'd want it to be and exactly where you'd like it to be instead of mending and adapting some ramshackle shed in the middle of a field.
I couldn't have said it better.
A home that likely once had a family with children, in the countryside, and a beautiful farm. But then a certain billionaire buys it.....
There was a great family that previously lived in that house. One ended up being Val Victorian of my class. It fell into disrepair so badly it was not worth fixing.@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn… buys it and uses the land to create a cleaner, healthier planet. Of all the sacrifices of natural areas for industrial use, I’d give this one a pass. Perhaps your sentiment is better applied to whatever land is used by Mattel to house a Barbie doll factory.
@@CarlWithACamera I'm commenting on what I see right in front of me.
what is going on north of the temporary cement plant
New yard for the landscaping contractor.
I pity whatever a Cybertruck crashes into. That thing looks solid.
Might have to clean out the Prius trap every six months. 😅
Measuring gaps on the Cybertrucks...
May be I missed it in a previous clip but is the cathode building meant to produce a dry cathode or wet cathode? I know Tesla was / is struggling with mass production of dry cathode. Doe anybody know?
It is intended to be dry cathode, but it's not widely known if they have overcome the production obstacles sufficiently for mass production.
Because the cathode building is so massive, it may well be able to ship the produced cathode chemistries (the final mix of active ingredients + secret sauce) to both the DBE process in the main building, the conventional (wet) process in Giga Nevada (Panasonic) and future 4680 DBE production lines such as for the GN expansion and Giga Berlin.
Right now Lithium and other ingredients are shipped back and forth over the globe but Tesla is aiming to set up their own vertical integration with a Lithium Refinery being built specifically for producing the exact quality of feedstock for this cathode factory. From this centralized vertical production I don't see why they couldn't supply their other battery plants, dry or wet.
I might add that the EU is talking to protect their car industries by heaping environmental requirements on outside production chains, read China. So for GS vehicles to enter Europe the indeed messy production chain for Lithium Hydroxide in China may well have to be eliminated by supplying GS also with feedstocks from the CC..GT production lines.
@@hardernl8893 thanks for your thoughts on the topic
I've heard that a Lift Station moves sewage. Isn't the Lift Station in Joe's video used to assist with stormwater runoff.
That's what I was thinking; Still, maybe a stormwater lift station? IDK.
Sanitary sewer. Stormwater drains happen to be passing by.
The outlets for this lift station is a pair of HDPE pipes of 8" and 12" diameter as per some City of Austin documentation.
Should send the crashed CT to Sandy Munroe.. for free.
Is Tesla planning on employing 60000 over 3 shifts or 60000 per shift?
3 X 20,000
16:30 What do you suppose is the purpose of the Cybertruck's being covered? Everybody knows what's under the covers, we all know what they look like… Thoughts?
Dust, sun effects (fading). Sun/heat effects is a thing in Texas. Plastic suffer most. Interior plastics that is. Also exterior. The stories I could tell (had a Ford Fairmont that the A/C controls body deteriorated with continued Texas heat applied; plastics become brittle with time.)
@@uploadJ So why are all the Model Y's not covered? They all have probably the same plastic parts…
@@jbak6892 re: "why are all the Model Y's not covered?"
Well, you're asking the wrong guy on that, I only know plastics, what they do upon exposure to UV sunlight and heat in the Texas sun, I don't know beans about the different Tesla models ...
Meant to say 'bents'. I'm becoming a terrible speller since using texting.
Waving back from NEOHIO. Thanks Joe.
Meant purlins
Did anybody catch the car that was covered next to the cover cybertruck at the crash test facility? Its smaller than the CT but is also covered and has a very different rear shape to the model y?
It is the Model Y that was crash tested and we discussed on my 27 September video. I mentioned it again on my 29 September video.
345 kV duct-bank:
@ 25:44 Three large spools of cable on flatbed trucks. Likely for the 345 kV duct-bank.
LCRA Substation:
@ 26:10 Cables pulled through the 8 conduits that connect the east transformer to the Tesla Enclosure/Mega-vault. No connections to transformer bus-bars yet.
Second duct-bank to factory:
South of Tesla Enclosure/Mega-vault:
@ 26:12 Ongoing work to pull cable. Looks like 3 conduits are filled, a 4th conduit is in the process of being filled.
The other end of the cable pull is in the north parking lot...
@ 27:16 Where a lot of cables can be seen in the vault on the left.
Note: The can't pull cable beyond this point until they finish construction on the duct-banks, connecting them to the main power vaults on the east side of casting.
BESS Substation:
@ 26:56 (Left of steel structure) Excavating new trench.
No cables pulled into backup power duct-banks yet.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm thinking that none of the 345 kV is buried; What is the need to bury it? The secondary (distribution) level, yes. Above ground for 345 kV is a better solution all the way around in particular in the case of lightning or storm damage repair (think: Grapefruit sized hail in Texas. It is a thing.) Unless you see BIG (insulation) bushings sitting on or next to the ground - it isn't 345 kV line being run ... note much above ground 'real estate' in a substation plant is devoted to HV disconnects (for isolation of circuits in the plant).
@@uploadJ The 345 kV underground link is mentioned in the interconnection agreement. It starts here @ 25:41 (Right) At the east monopole. The pole with the cross arms sticking out at the bottom. And terminates here @ 26:51 at the BESS substation (behind the excavator). The conduit is encased in a concrete duct-bank, and has been under construction for the last two months. The underground route is necessary because it has to cross under several other 345 kV lines.
love you but waaaaayyyy too much verbiage since you first started
I like the videos but damn does he spit a lot when he talks 🤣
I do it for you … can you post more as I find it helps my stats and thank for watching again and again and again and again! 😜
@JoeTegtmeyer hey hey I'm a subscriber. But if you keep spitting I'll keep commenting! ❤️
@@bbolen76 Comment away!
i don't care about horizontal drilling dude!!!!!
Maybe Tesla should build a tunnel under the highway for easier access to the new end of line..
Or maybe not.
😅@@jbbuzzable
Suggested many many times in past video comments sections.
So you're the guy that can't let it go.@@CarlWithACamera
@@jbbuzzable what are you talking about? I'm just letting this commenter know that it's been discussed. Take a pill.
The driver side fender was peeled back. It is not structural, not an exoskeleton but rather a piece of SS sheet metal attached using clips or screws to the front casting.
Please provide us with all of the details.
Especially the physics and resulting mechanics of a ~3 ton vehicle impacting an immovable solid surface. Extra points for comparing the experience between a unibody and exoskeleton construction. Please also explain the finer details of the differences between those two architectures.
This would be a poor rating for the Cybertruck compared to the crash test of the 2023 Ranger which received a marginal rating without breaking any windows and without affecting the doors.
Wow ... you are impressive that you can determine that from a drone set of images or video. Honestly, you should never do engineering this way.
@@JoeTegtmeyerhe also knows exactly what speed the crash was performed at. Very impressive. 😂
In addition, crash tests aren’t to test how the vehicle looks after the crash, it’s how the crash instruments, ie the crash test dummies, look and read after the crash. Now there are some low speed bumper tests that might have appearance criteria but the real crash tests are about G forces, passenger area intrusion and such. You can’t tell anything about those from a drone shot.
@@CarlWithACamera thanks!
Mate hope you are getting a cut of all the ads they show, it's getting so bad might have to stop watching.
Run an ad b l ocker like U bl ock Ori gin - no ads ...
just a thought.. maybe Tesla could dismantle the temporary switch yard and move it to Corpus Christi and reassemble it there for their use, as they ramp up construction. If it was enough energy for Giga Texas' needs during construction, it may work there as well.
I may be wrong but I don't think Tesla owns the temporary substation.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Confirmed. They don’t own either the temporary or the permanent substation switchyards.
Meooow
@ 24:07 The have thousands of empty acres and still felt the need to destroy the house!
Do you ever find your Love/Hate relationship with Tesla to be awkward?
Maybe they had squatters and it was a safety issue. Ever hear of the benefit of the doubt? Or maybe just a little grace?
@@scottgaree7667 Wasn't the house supposed to be used for a security office? 😀
I live in a fertile agricultural area and 4 out of 5 farmhouses have been torn down in my lifetime. I miss them, but it is a reality in my dimension.
@@jbbuzzable That is unfortunate and not good for America in the long term.