1:07 Who would have thought that in a bit over 4 years of flying around Giga Austin, Joe is considered a celebrity. Of course, we also should appreciate the others from the OG Quad Squad, but thank you Joe for all the in-depth knowledge of the hectic site that helps make Texas what it is today!
The Hi, Joe on the flagpole is really cool. After over 4 years of flying GigaTexas 3 days a week it's obvious that you've been accepted into the Tesla community. Similar to Tin Dodd, who's been accepted into the SpaceX community. You are the Everyday Tesla guy, as Tim is the Everyday Astronaut. I've been with you since June of 2020 and seen every video you ever posted. Thank you for the entertainment. I'm a nerd and an Elon fan, and this is fun to watch. Elon needs to give you a personal guided tour of the factory. You've earned it.
So happy to see Giga Texas honored you on the flag pole topper. Very cool and well deserved. Can't help but think in hind sight the floor to ceiling glass panels on the extension were a really bad idea. Seems overly complex, expensive and not a required feature. We've all been watching the slow install progress and it's like the task that never ends.
At 30:38 those are reels of FIBER DUCT which will be buried, then fiber optic cables pulled through. They are color coded, Orange, White, Black, and Blue are standard colors. The material is nonconducting, generally rodent and pest resistant, and weatherproof. It is available in several sizes and is used both indoors and out.
Thanks Joe *Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible* 1:09. Flagpole. Easter egg. Congratulations Joe! I missed that. I should pay closer attention. 2:13. Southend, Tunnel Portal. Megapack installation. Might be a daytime shortage of supply in that part of the building. Charging the megapacks over night, to discharge during the day. 5:10. Westside, north security entrance. Transformer delivery. Magnetron. 7:31. EOL, north pond. Finishing off works in the drainage system at many locations around the site. Washing down the Cybertrucks again. Might be those stored at the old eastside EOL that gathered some dust. 9:14. Westside storage. Magnetron transformers. 84, +2 on the trailers, +1 at 5:10, 87. Interesting is that the Magnetron transformers are light enough to be unloaded by forklift. The Prolec transformers at 10:16 only seen unloaded by crane. 10:43. Westside, storage. Magnetron transformer from 5:10, now top right. 15:13. Southend, west. Speculating the hold up with the glass installation is the still operational diesel powered temporary pumps inside. 16:01. Southend, south. Terraces. Surveyors at work setting levels/grades/elevations. 16:54. Southend, east. Yellow telehandler shifting the stripped retaining wall shuttering. 17:25. Southend, east. Loading platform removed. 18:10. River Road, east. Excavation for the NG pipeline works. Replacement of existing pipeline. Unrelated to Tesla. 19:36. Stamping, east. Apron. White items on the trailer. Racks for stamped sheets. See Jeff’s Day 1546 bottom right at 1.06 for an example. 20:36. BIW, apron. Right. Yellow furnace tender vehicle. 20:57. Casting, east. Apron. Almost clear of casting racks. 22:15. Northend. Casting storage. Stock location markings only ‘aspirational’. Almost every casting in the racks and on the ground is untrimmed. 23:49. Battery, west. Stair and ramp. Footing concrete placed. Rebar placed for the south retaining wall. 24:13. Battery, Level 2. Right. 2000 ballons. 26:16. Casting, east. Canopy. Rod ‘plan’ diagonal bracing in the closer bay of the roof frame. Flat strap top and bottom faces of the roof purlins The lining of the underside of the cantilever is a mystery. As is the valley gutter lined with a membrane. 26:28. Casting, baghouse steel structure. Transition pieces for between the heat-exchangers and the expansion boxes, yet to be installed. Possible candidates stored on the westside. 26:56. Casting, east. Roof. Right. Ring of dry roof around the operational flue. 27:44. New switchyard/substation. Bottom. Against the fence. Hold down bolt cages for frames or poles etc. 28:41. Crash Test Track. Bottom, on the blue pallet. Stack of truck wheels and tyres. Crash testing a Semi? 28:45. Crash Test Track. Bottom left. Pair of Cybertrucks. They should be more careful! 29:02. Cathode, plant platform. Smaller shipping containers are chillers. Just visible inside. Problem with the permanent chillers? 29:12. Cathode, Tank Farm. Extension ladder being lowered down a deep pit. 29:47. Die Shop, north. Crane set-up to hoist. Out of site on the west side of the Die Shop is an orange multi wheel low-load trailer.
I've always known them as a VR. "variable reach forklift". Google seems to agree. /edit. Telehandler is also a known name as well. Seems to depend on the region you are working in.
Haha! That "Hi Joe" hedge hog on the flagpole ball made me laugh out loud! How much more recognistion and appreciation for your work you can get! This is awesome.. You definitely beloing to the Tesla family Joe!
You deserve the callout Joe on the flagpole, your coverage is amazing for those of us that have followed since the beginning. It was great seeing you at We:Robot as well! I think it has expanded the Tesla marketing as those who are interested in the "guts" tune into your great background and coverage. I have sent your videos through the years to a lot of people, some have no interest in Tesla, but I just think the scale and amount of work being done is an interest to anyone related to construction and such. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks and congrats Joe! I love Tesla's humor with these things... your name on flagpole ball, Sandy's name on a CT circuit board... they make the best cars and products, and know how to have fun with this stuff... I love it!!
12:41 I believe those vehicles are called a "telehandler". They are basically a cross between a forklift and an all-terrain crane. Very useful piece of equipment.
Hi Joe 😉 Very special, very nice Yellow one is a fork lift truck which brings the panels from the yard to the entrance and orange one a telehandler which place the panels in the tunnel. Both have fork lifts as main attachment / work tool. Probably the telehandler is better at placing loads at an angle, slope of the driving surface in this case, than the regular fork lift truck.
Joe, it never ceases to amaze me that the site never seems to be moving towards being "finished". As soon as one area of construction seems to be nearing completeion another field or some other random open space starts receiving piles of new material for some new project.
That’s awesome that they thought to put that small Easter Egg on the gold ball topping the Tesla flagpole, it’s nice to be appreciated & acknowledged on occasion, congrats 👍👌
Very well done Joe with all the time and efforts over the years highlighting the progress of the Tesla factory. I couldn't imagine a better 'pat on the back' for your efforts!! What other company does this kind of stuff? GOOD STUFF!
Some construction projects outside seem to be progressing slowly because they are likely low-priority “jump” jobs. These are tasks that crews work on when other types of construction interfere with their primary tasks. For example, a paving crew can’t finish their work if underground piping still needs to be installed in the same area. Rather than staying idle, they move to lower-priority tasks until the interference is resolved, then return to their main work. In complex projects, especially those involving new building sections, there are many dependencies between tasks. For instance, glass installation might be delayed until the fire system is in place, or electrical work needs to be completed before powering critical areas like a supercomputer room. This constant need to sequence work properly is why progress can appear inconsistent from the outside.
Tesla ball reminds me of the spheres Mr. Tesla used in his voltage experiments. At first that is what I thought you were talking about as a nod to Mr. Tesla.
Some time ago we discussed that CT's coming from the end of the production line and disappearing directly into the tunnel would free up a tremendous amount of floorspace. In this context it seems difficult to imagine that a kind of parking lot has to be set up inside(!) the building, complete with charging stations and megapacks, just to juice up a new CT every 40 seconds or so to be able to reach the West EOL facility. So far, CT's coming out of the building drive even further over existing roads to reach the West side.
Perhaps. There has always been a similar "exit" charging setup at Giga-Berlin. Probably it is simply not safe to fully pre-charge the battery pack while the vehicle is being put together on the assembly line. But I'm sure they have all that mostly calculated so that packs have some adequate pre-charge before installation for operational testing and for interior and external mobility sufficient to allow the vehicle to get to the supercharging and finishing center. That might require 5 or 10 minutes for a few kilowatt-hours of charge and several sub-assembly feeder lines to ensure this operation step does not slow the overall assembly line process. It would be really interesting to know how long it actually does take to build one car - for batteries to charge, paint and all sorts of adhesives to dry, software to load, quality control functions to complete, many other steps to happen. There is lots of "unboxing" (or parallel sub-assembly) that already occurs, all under the control of Tesla One, I think, in order to have a completed vehicle rolling out every 40 seconds or so.
That's a good argument. Would seem weird to clog up that hard fought new space. Alternatively, somewhere deeper inside the CT production line battery packs need to receive an initial charge. Possibly there is a production hours shortage of supply, and the Megapacks are being charged up after hours to provide a buffer to the short supply during the day for the initial charge.
@@WarrenLacefield The vehicles have some charge by the end of the production line as they are immediately driven away. I'd like to know where that initial charge is added. After battery pack assembly, or after the battery pack is installed, or some residual charge from the cell conditioning? Why would they need a top up at the end of the line, and further charging at EOL. Lots of questions about this. I'd be keen to see the entire Cybertruck production line. The Model Y seems to be a conventional multi-shop line, Stamping (and the unconventional Casting), BIW, Paint, then GA. Cybertruck (from the Munro video) only 3 shops, Stamping (and Casting), then GA where the entire vehicle is assembled including the body where BIW is a step on the GA line. Even the battery packs seem to be assembled on the same line.
@@DessieDoolan Indeed, me too, so many good questions! The few videos of inside the factory, e.g., Joe's tour and especially Sandy's or the one of Giga-Shanghai, have been fascinating ... but only show a tiny bit of the overall and detailed planning that must go into such a thing as an assembly line (not to mention, supply chains and manufacturing steps, down to the last nut and bolt or spot weld), let alone the entire factory, utilities and support systems (as these are built-up, torn down, and reconfigured). And Tesla is vertically integrated, meaning they literally make and/or build many of the parts inside that factory themselves. So many assembly and sub-assembly lines! I would love to see a flowchart (or many) or some other sort of adequate visualization of the whole thing, but that is IP and really the "secret sauce" of state-of-art factories (like Tesla and SpaceX or CATL and TSMC or Nvidia, etc.) And, honestly, I doubt that those can even be built and operated without some sort of overseeing computer control such as Tesla One. (Even Ford's Model T factory is amazing to this day, given what they had then.) I only asked really how long (duration) it takes to build one car. That might be at least a few hours, or even a day or so, but once it gets started, the next car rolls out about 40 seconds later (if you are going to produce 500k of them or more in a work-year: e.g., 60min x 24hr x ~300days = 432K). It's like a river.
@@WarrenLacefield A search gives a wide range of numbers. 2.5 hours at Shanghai is commonly quoted. I would have to assume this is measured from the first stamping of a coil of steel, or melting of an ingot for die-casting, to driving out of the EOL. I'd also assume that doesn't include production time for components brought in from other suppliers. Tyres, glass, nuts and bolts, the batteries (by CATL and BYD at Shanghai).
Joe, love your video and well done on Tesla's recognition to what you do - you deserved it! Your CT's wiper appears to be not completely vertical, you might want to check it out/have tesla adjust it. I think from memory, mine is vertical at the park position.
The machine coming out of the tunnel is called a telehandler. It has the big long boom that telescopes out. A forklift has a tall vertical mast and a front end loader normally has a 4 in one bucket on the two arms that hang out the front that move up and down. They also can have a fork carriage mounted instead of the bucket.
Hey Joe, hope you're right, but just curious why you think margins might be good this quarter, with Tesla having to aggressively buy down interest rates from the banks to offer the very low promo finance rates, and with energy storage deployment much lower than Q2, plus the price of the megapack XL dropping in almost half from its original $2M price tag. Anyway, love your channel and just hoping you've heard some rumors around the site on earnings, haha!!
Same-same. The Trump administration merely tweaked the agreement and made sure to rename it so that it could claim that it is radically different, when it is in fact not.
Hi Joe, the cover trailers are going to Canada. I think for the launch of cybertruck in Canada . I think they’re using the cover trailer so nobody knows that they’re coming in. Usually Tesla ships model Y model 3 in open Trailer in Canada and Mexico using the cover trailer just for the beginning to do the launch Delivery like how they did in Mexico
I think it would be great to report on noise profiles of the powerful casting machines and stamping presses. Because it is just as much a part of the production characteristics and specification data as their size and energy consumption and throughput, for example.
I’m assuming the solar transformers en masse are to complete the Solar Roof withe the “TESLA” logo in negative space on GT’s roof, which has me so excited 🤩
5:17 Fun Fact: It was announced just today (21-Oct-2024) that Austin-based Lone Star Paving is being acquired by Construction Partners Inc., an Alabama-based company, in a deal valued at up to $950 million. Construction Partners will pay US$654 million in cash and 3 million shares of its stock for Lone Star Paving, legally known as Asphalt Inc., LLC.
And 28:03 is now Texas Concrete (Texas Materials) since earlier in the year. One of the earlier followers of the the project is @forwardthinkingtrucker (or similar) he mentioned this about April.
Are the megapacks in the South extension for supercharging CTs or is it some sort of power buffer for the Cortex? Could be some sort of temporary solution while they wait for the 3rd transformer at the sub-station?
So much for the tunnel done in JULY!!!!ELON!!!!!!!! ok maybe AUG.. NO..... Ok maybe Sept... NO.. Alrighty. maybe OCT! Don't look like it. 🤨 Love to watch ya Joe but I had to chill on the Factory videos because of my frustration watching this tunnel. I thought if I stopped watching for a while the dang tunnel would get done. COMON TUNNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow what an amazing video Joe. I think I saw ENRON Musk in the corner doing the nasty with a Tesla Bot that was wearing a wig. Hopefully that was just a mirage
When shipping into Mexico, thieft is a big problem and covered trailers would give some protection from this. Also, I worked in the construction business and know some of the terms. The name for that silver coating is called "aluminum paint" and the black wall are called silt fencing and normally it is used to keep dust or dirt from blowing into or out of a construction.
Looking at the substation and the empty cable trays on the roof at the north end... It's going to be a while. Can't run a data center without power and right now, they only have limited power on the south end.
Chat gpt says that Tesla is now manufacturing the non-foundation all-wheel drive cybertruck. I wonder if you've seen any. Reason I'm asking is I ordered one about 2 weeks ago. Still no Vin of course.
Well, actually it’s a telehandler but since Lull made them famous, much like a facial tissue is called a Kleenex, everyone calls them Lulls, even if they are made by someone else.
Yes, also Pettibone made their Multikrane. Other brands made their versions. We used them for years at ABC for mobile camera platforms on ABC Golf coverage. As a matter of fact, we called the coverage of the Men's Amateur Tournament "The Forklift Derby". I still have keys to several brands of them.
There got to be some kind of a hint to Joe for that Easter egg, right? Otherwise you could have tons of it without ever knowing. So, identify your self, Whistleblower
Covered trucks: I'm curious what comes in those same trucks going north? It might just be that these are the available empty trucks going south. I'm sure cybertrucks will be popular with the cartels.
The rising sun shining off the high rises in downtown Austin make me wonder if that is what it might have looked like when it reflected off the limestone covered pyramids in Egypt 4000 years ago.
That speaks well of you, Joe. Tesla obviously appreciates the way you represent them in your videos. Well done!
Thanks ... I feel very honored and I think it is a lot of fun too!
I'm sure it helps site management greatly. Lets them confirm progress, deliveries etc
Thanks Joe. Just recognizing you for being "on the ball"
That “Hi Joe” is just amazing. Congrats, Joe.
🤗👍
Congratulations Joe! That was a clever and awesome shout out to you and for your work. These people have a great sense of humor.
Thanks Jim 🤠👍
1:07 Who would have thought that in a bit over 4 years of flying around Giga Austin, Joe is considered a celebrity. Of course, we also should appreciate the others from the OG Quad Squad, but thank you Joe for all the in-depth knowledge of the hectic site that helps make Texas what it is today!
Thanks and I never forget about the OG Quad Squad and also Brad Sloan who has put in a lot of work over the past 4 years as well!
Congratulations Joe, You've been immortalized!
Thanks Pierre!
@@JoeTegtmeyer Immortan Joe! Witnessed!
The Hi, Joe on the flagpole is really cool. After over 4 years of flying GigaTexas 3 days a week it's obvious that you've been accepted into the Tesla community. Similar to Tin Dodd, who's been accepted into the SpaceX community. You are the Everyday Tesla guy, as Tim is the Everyday Astronaut. I've been with you since June of 2020 and seen every video you ever posted. Thank you for the entertainment. I'm a nerd and an Elon fan, and this is fun to watch. Elon needs to give you a personal guided tour of the factory. You've earned it.
Thank you Jeff! This was very unexpected but an honor to see them do this! It’s been an amazing 4+ years!
Joe you are now officially famous. Everyone at Tesla knows you. Best wishes 😊
Thanks ... it is cool and I love the fun that goes with it too!
Congratulations. Hedgehog, Easter Egg immortality. Wow!❤
Thanks! 🤠👍
So happy to see Giga Texas honored you on the flag pole topper. Very cool and well deserved.
Can't help but think in hind sight the floor to ceiling glass panels on the extension were a really bad idea. Seems overly complex, expensive and not a required feature. We've all been watching the slow install progress and it's like the task that never ends.
At 30:38 those are reels of FIBER DUCT which will be buried, then fiber optic cables pulled through. They are color coded, Orange, White, Black, and Blue are standard colors. The material is nonconducting, generally rodent and pest resistant, and weatherproof. It is available in several sizes and is used both indoors and out.
Thanks Joe
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1:09. Flagpole. Easter egg. Congratulations Joe!
I missed that. I should pay closer attention.
2:13. Southend, Tunnel Portal. Megapack installation. Might be a daytime shortage of supply in that part of the building. Charging the megapacks over night, to discharge during the day.
5:10. Westside, north security entrance. Transformer delivery. Magnetron.
7:31. EOL, north pond. Finishing off works in the drainage system at many locations around the site.
Washing down the Cybertrucks again. Might be those stored at the old eastside EOL that gathered some dust.
9:14. Westside storage. Magnetron transformers. 84, +2 on the trailers, +1 at 5:10, 87.
Interesting is that the Magnetron transformers are light enough to be unloaded by forklift. The Prolec transformers at 10:16 only seen unloaded by crane.
10:43. Westside, storage. Magnetron transformer from 5:10, now top right.
15:13. Southend, west. Speculating the hold up with the glass installation is the still operational diesel powered temporary pumps inside.
16:01. Southend, south. Terraces. Surveyors at work setting levels/grades/elevations.
16:54. Southend, east. Yellow telehandler shifting the stripped retaining wall shuttering.
17:25. Southend, east. Loading platform removed.
18:10. River Road, east. Excavation for the NG pipeline works. Replacement of existing pipeline. Unrelated to Tesla.
19:36. Stamping, east. Apron. White items on the trailer. Racks for stamped sheets. See Jeff’s Day 1546 bottom right at 1.06 for an example.
20:36. BIW, apron. Right. Yellow furnace tender vehicle.
20:57. Casting, east. Apron. Almost clear of casting racks.
22:15. Northend. Casting storage. Stock location markings only ‘aspirational’. Almost every casting in the racks and on the ground is untrimmed.
23:49. Battery, west. Stair and ramp. Footing concrete placed. Rebar placed for the south retaining wall.
24:13. Battery, Level 2. Right. 2000 ballons.
26:16. Casting, east. Canopy. Rod ‘plan’ diagonal bracing in the closer bay of the roof frame.
Flat strap top and bottom faces of the roof purlins
The lining of the underside of the cantilever is a mystery. As is the valley gutter lined with a membrane.
26:28. Casting, baghouse steel structure. Transition pieces for between the heat-exchangers and the expansion boxes, yet to be installed. Possible candidates stored on the westside.
26:56. Casting, east. Roof. Right. Ring of dry roof around the operational flue.
27:44. New switchyard/substation. Bottom. Against the fence. Hold down bolt cages for frames or poles etc.
28:41. Crash Test Track. Bottom, on the blue pallet. Stack of truck wheels and tyres. Crash testing a Semi?
28:45. Crash Test Track. Bottom left. Pair of Cybertrucks. They should be more careful!
29:02. Cathode, plant platform. Smaller shipping containers are chillers. Just visible inside. Problem with the permanent chillers?
29:12. Cathode, Tank Farm. Extension ladder being lowered down a deep pit.
29:47. Die Shop, north. Crane set-up to hoist. Out of site on the west side of the Die Shop is an orange multi wheel low-load trailer.
Thanks Dessie … and I appreciate all of your help these past 4+ years!
@@JoeTegtmeyer You're welcome Joe!
Shame on you, Dessie! How did you not think of zooming in on that golden ball to check if there's something written on it??
@@greggerypeccary I'm just not that into flags.
!! Congrats Joe !! The easter egg on the flagpole is super awesome. Thanks for all your hard work.
What an honor to have an Easter Egg within Tesla. 🥳 Congratulations Joe.
Thanks Jason! 🤗
that is a "telehandler", a 4x4 all terrain forklift with the forks on a telescopic boom overhead, "tele", roofers love them!
🤓👍
I've always known them as a VR. "variable reach forklift". Google seems to agree. /edit. Telehandler is also a known name as well. Seems to depend on the region you are working in.
Haha! That "Hi Joe" hedge hog on the flagpole ball made me laugh out loud!
How much more recognistion and appreciation for your work you can get! This is awesome.. You definitely beloing to the Tesla family Joe!
'Hi Joe!' A nice form of appreciation from Tesla. The appreciation of your videos is also from all of us viewers!
You deserve the callout Joe on the flagpole, your coverage is amazing for those of us that have followed since the beginning. It was great seeing you at We:Robot as well! I think it has expanded the Tesla marketing as those who are interested in the "guts" tune into your great background and coverage. I have sent your videos through the years to a lot of people, some have no interest in Tesla, but I just think the scale and amount of work being done is an interest to anyone related to construction and such. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you very much! It’s truly an unecoected honor for me!
Thanks and congrats Joe! I love Tesla's humor with these things... your name on flagpole ball, Sandy's name on a CT circuit board... they make the best cars and products, and know how to have fun with this stuff... I love it!!
12:41 I believe those vehicles are called a "telehandler". They are basically a cross between a forklift and an all-terrain crane. Very useful piece of equipment.
Easter eggs: I don't know if you caught it, but on an internal circuit board of the cybertruck motor inverter, in very small print, it says "hi Sandy"
I did see that and also Chuck Cook's left turn in the FSD notes!
Hi Joe 😉
Very special, very nice
Yellow one is a fork lift truck which brings the panels from the yard to the entrance and orange one a telehandler which place the panels in the tunnel.
Both have fork lifts as main attachment / work tool. Probably the telehandler is better at placing loads at an angle, slope of the driving surface in this case, than the regular fork lift truck.
Hello Joe, what a super way for Tesla to say thank to you. I must add my thanks from the UK for all the work you but into these videos. Thank you.
Joe, thanks for sharing this easter egg moment! Your channel is So Interesting! Thanks for your research and hard work!
Congrats Joe! Very nice tribute from Tesla
for you. 🫡
Thanks Mark!
Great to see Tesla recognizing your work, Joe! Keep it up! 🎉
Thank you! It’s amazing they did this! 🤠
Such an awesome Easter Egg, Joe! Congrats!
🤗👍
Fun stuff! Congrats on your well deserved recognition, Joe. This is some pretty high level awesome.
Congratulations Joe! So cool.
Congrats Joe on the easter egg.
Joe, it never ceases to amaze me that the site never seems to be moving towards being "finished". As soon as one area of construction seems to be nearing completeion another field or some other random open space starts receiving piles of new material for some new project.
That is so Elon. Showing his appreciation. Well-deserved, Joe. Great work!
That’s awesome that they thought to put that small Easter Egg on the gold ball topping the Tesla flagpole, it’s nice to be appreciated & acknowledged on occasion, congrats 👍👌
👍🤗 Thanks Mitch!
Very well done Joe with all the time and efforts over the years highlighting the progress of the Tesla factory. I couldn't imagine a better 'pat on the back' for your efforts!! What other company does this kind of stuff? GOOD STUFF!
Thank you Mike! 🤗
congrats Joe quite an honor to be recognized by Tesla they love you keep the videos coming they are excellent
Recognition for the awesome job you have been doing all these years. Well deserved !
Thanks Charles!
WOW! YOU HAVE ARIVED. NICE
Some construction projects outside seem to be progressing slowly because they are likely low-priority “jump” jobs. These are tasks that crews work on when other types of construction interfere with their primary tasks. For example, a paving crew can’t finish their work if underground piping still needs to be installed in the same area. Rather than staying idle, they move to lower-priority tasks until the interference is resolved, then return to their main work.
In complex projects, especially those involving new building sections, there are many dependencies between tasks. For instance, glass installation might be delayed until the fire system is in place, or electrical work needs to be completed before powering critical areas like a supercomputer room. This constant need to sequence work properly is why progress can appear inconsistent from the outside.
Tesla ball reminds me of the spheres Mr. Tesla used in his voltage experiments. At first that is what I thought you were talking about as a nod to Mr. Tesla.
"Hi Joe", epic! Congrats 🎉 SoCalFreddy
Epic! You Very much deserve that cool way to show their thanks to you!
Wow You name is on top of the flagpole!
Awesome Joegg!
Good job Joe. Thanks.
Hey Joe. Congrats on the Flagpole thing. Awesome. Also, how do you feel about your Cybertruck, now that you've driven it a while?
Way cool! Hi Joe!
Thanks Grant!
great video. thank you usaf ret.
Some time ago we discussed that CT's coming from the end of the production line and disappearing directly into the tunnel would free up a tremendous amount of floorspace. In this context it seems difficult to imagine that a kind of parking lot has to be set up inside(!) the building, complete with charging stations and megapacks, just to juice up a new CT every 40 seconds or so to be able to reach the West EOL facility. So far, CT's coming out of the building drive even further over existing roads to reach the West side.
Perhaps. There has always been a similar "exit" charging setup at Giga-Berlin. Probably it is simply not safe to fully pre-charge the battery pack while the vehicle is being put together on the assembly line. But I'm sure they have all that mostly calculated so that packs have some adequate pre-charge before installation for operational testing and for interior and external mobility sufficient to allow the vehicle to get to the supercharging and finishing center. That might require 5 or 10 minutes for a few kilowatt-hours of charge and several sub-assembly feeder lines to ensure this operation step does not slow the overall assembly line process.
It would be really interesting to know how long it actually does take to build one car - for batteries to charge, paint and all sorts of adhesives to dry, software to load, quality control functions to complete, many other steps to happen. There is lots of "unboxing" (or parallel sub-assembly) that already occurs, all under the control of Tesla One, I think, in order to have a completed vehicle rolling out every 40 seconds or so.
That's a good argument. Would seem weird to clog up that hard fought new space.
Alternatively, somewhere deeper inside the CT production line battery packs need to receive an initial charge. Possibly there is a production hours shortage of supply, and the Megapacks are being charged up after hours to provide a buffer to the short supply during the day for the initial charge.
@@WarrenLacefield The vehicles have some charge by the end of the production line as they are immediately driven away. I'd like to know where that initial charge is added. After battery pack assembly, or after the battery pack is installed, or some residual charge from the cell conditioning? Why would they need a top up at the end of the line, and further charging at EOL. Lots of questions about this.
I'd be keen to see the entire Cybertruck production line. The Model Y seems to be a conventional multi-shop line, Stamping (and the unconventional Casting), BIW, Paint, then GA.
Cybertruck (from the Munro video) only 3 shops, Stamping (and Casting), then GA where the entire vehicle is assembled including the body where BIW is a step on the GA line. Even the battery packs seem to be assembled on the same line.
@@DessieDoolan Indeed, me too, so many good questions! The few videos of inside the factory, e.g., Joe's tour and especially Sandy's or the one of Giga-Shanghai, have been fascinating ... but only show a tiny bit of the overall and detailed planning that must go into such a thing as an assembly line (not to mention, supply chains and manufacturing steps, down to the last nut and bolt or spot weld), let alone the entire factory, utilities and support systems (as these are built-up, torn down, and reconfigured). And Tesla is vertically integrated, meaning they literally make and/or build many of the parts inside that factory themselves. So many assembly and sub-assembly lines! I would love to see a flowchart (or many) or some other sort of adequate visualization of the whole thing, but that is IP and really the "secret sauce" of state-of-art factories (like Tesla and SpaceX or CATL and TSMC or Nvidia, etc.) And, honestly, I doubt that those can even be built and operated without some sort of overseeing computer control such as Tesla One. (Even Ford's Model T factory is amazing to this day, given what they had then.) I only asked really how long (duration) it takes to build one car. That might be at least a few hours, or even a day or so, but once it gets started, the next car rolls out about 40 seconds later (if you are going to produce 500k of them or more in a work-year: e.g., 60min x 24hr x ~300days = 432K). It's like a river.
@@WarrenLacefield A search gives a wide range of numbers. 2.5 hours at Shanghai is commonly quoted.
I would have to assume this is measured from the first stamping of a coil of steel, or melting of an ingot for die-casting, to driving out of the EOL.
I'd also assume that doesn't include production time for components brought in from other suppliers. Tyres, glass, nuts and bolts, the batteries (by CATL and BYD at Shanghai).
Joe, love your video and well done on Tesla's recognition to what you do - you deserved it! Your CT's wiper appears to be not completely vertical, you might want to check it out/have tesla adjust it. I think from memory, mine is vertical at the park position.
It's a telehandler, coming out of the tunnel.
The machine coming out of the tunnel is called a telehandler. It has the big long boom that telescopes out. A forklift has a tall vertical mast and a front end loader normally has a 4 in one bucket on the two arms that hang out the front that move up and down. They also can have a fork carriage mounted instead of the bucket.
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Hey Joe, hope you're right, but just curious why you think margins might be good this quarter, with Tesla having to aggressively buy down interest rates from the banks to offer the very low promo finance rates, and with energy storage deployment much lower than Q2, plus the price of the megapack XL dropping in almost half from its original $2M price tag. Anyway, love your channel and just hoping you've heard some rumors around the site on earnings, haha!!
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Hi Joe,
NAFTA was replaced by USMCA.
GREAT video
Same-same. The Trump administration merely tweaked the agreement and made sure to rename it so that it could claim that it is radically different, when it is in fact not.
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"Hi Joe" That speaks volumes for the wonderful nature of Elon and the company. I love that whimsy.
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Hi Joe, the cover trailers are going to Canada. I think for the launch of cybertruck in Canada . I think they’re using the cover trailer so nobody knows that they’re coming in.
Usually Tesla ships model Y model 3 in open Trailer in Canada and Mexico using the cover trailer just for the beginning to do the launch Delivery like how they did in Mexico
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Not to be confused with the Jimi Hendrix classic "Hey Joe" with a very different story. 😁
I think it would be great to report on noise
profiles of the powerful casting machines
and stamping presses.
Because it is just as much a part of the
production characteristics and specification
data as their size and energy consumption
and throughput, for example.
hi joe
Those square structures in the baghouse tower look to be electrostatic precipitators am I right?
I’m assuming the solar transformers en masse are to complete the Solar Roof withe the “TESLA” logo in negative space on GT’s roof, which has me so excited 🤩
Transformers aren't needed for Tesla's solar roof since the power is used locally at the factory.
Flagpole Joe ..
5:17 Fun Fact: It was announced just today (21-Oct-2024) that Austin-based Lone Star Paving is being acquired by Construction Partners Inc., an Alabama-based company, in a deal valued at up to $950 million. Construction Partners will pay US$654 million in cash and 3 million shares of its stock for Lone Star Paving, legally known as Asphalt Inc., LLC.
And 28:03 is now Texas Concrete (Texas Materials) since earlier in the year.
One of the earlier followers of the the project is @forwardthinkingtrucker (or similar) he mentioned this about April.
Are the megapacks in the South extension for supercharging CTs or is it some sort of power buffer for the Cortex? Could be some sort of temporary solution while they wait for the 3rd transformer at the sub-station?
The people that work here said they were for the Cybertrucks ... I don't think they made a mistake in where or how they are being used.
@@JoeTegtmeyer Ah that will do it. Thanks Joe!
Did they remove the solar roof cells?
No they are still there. It was rumored that the entire roof would be covered with them one day.
So much for the tunnel done in JULY!!!!ELON!!!!!!!! ok maybe AUG.. NO..... Ok maybe Sept... NO.. Alrighty. maybe OCT! Don't look like it. 🤨 Love to watch ya Joe but I had to chill on the Factory videos because of my frustration watching this tunnel. I thought if I stopped watching for a while the dang tunnel would get done. COMON TUNNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow what an amazing video Joe. I think I saw ENRON Musk in the corner doing the nasty with a Tesla Bot that was wearing a wig. Hopefully that was just a mirage
I wonder if the covered trucks for deliveries to Mexico might be to reduce the odds of being hijacked on their way to their destination.
Haha YES! 👌
When shipping into Mexico, thieft is a big problem and covered trailers would give some protection from this. Also, I worked in the construction business and know some of the terms. The name for that silver coating is called "aluminum paint" and the black wall are called silt fencing and normally it is used to keep dust or dirt from blowing into or out of a construction.
How in the world did you find it?!
Far more likely that those mega packs are behind the meter backup power for the computer
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The ball on top of a lamp, post, or flagpole is known as a finial. Now You Know!
Now we know, finially!
Did Tesla mention when this expansion should be ready?
Looking at the substation and the empty cable trays on the roof at the north end... It's going to be a while. Can't run a data center without power and right now, they only have limited power on the south end.
What happened to the solar panels on top of Giga Texas? All removed! Why???.
Still there. 20:30 for example.
Chat gpt says that Tesla is now manufacturing the non-foundation all-wheel drive cybertruck. I wonder if you've seen any.
Reason I'm asking is I ordered one about 2 weeks ago. Still no Vin of course.
Think, the Megapacks are more for the stability of the computercluster energy Support.
The people that work here said they are for the Cybertrucks, but perhaps they are incorrect?
Joe, the machine installing the tunnel road sections is called a Lull. The construction elevator is called a buck hoist
Well, actually it’s a telehandler but since Lull made them famous, much like a facial tissue is called a Kleenex, everyone calls them Lulls, even if they are made by someone else.
Yes, also Pettibone made their Multikrane. Other brands made their versions. We used them for years at ABC for mobile camera platforms on ABC Golf coverage. As a matter of fact, we called the coverage of the Men's Amateur Tournament "The Forklift Derby". I still have keys to several brands of them.
they called telehandler
That was a test, lol.
why all the concrete blocks ............spread all over the roof of the main building.................. around the 4680 production area ??
To hold down the defective roof membrane and keep it from blowing away in the wind.
elon said he had a roBOvan, we need to see it in action around the factory!!!
Did we ever find out who makes all those transformers??
Magnetron, and Prolec.
There got to be some kind of a hint to Joe
for that Easter egg, right?
Otherwise you could have tons of it
without ever knowing.
So, identify your self, Whistleblower
Covered trucks: I'm curious what comes in those same trucks going north? It might just be that these are the available empty trucks going south. I'm sure cybertrucks will be popular with the cartels.
@ 21:47 Congratulations to Tesla for cleaning up the castings mess. Too bad they didn't do that 4 years ago! Still a lot of messes to clean up.
How and when did you discover your name on top of that flag pole! You don't really fly that high or look closely at those balls on top! 🤷♂😁
The rising sun shining off the high rises in downtown Austin make me wonder if that is what it might have looked like when it reflected off the limestone covered pyramids in Egypt 4000 years ago.
The gas pipeline running down the East side is more for Tesla itself?
Tesla is a customer but the powerplant on the other side of the river is an even bigger customer.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Cheers mate.