Tesla Terafactory Texas Update

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Hey guys, it’s Randy! Another productive weekend is in the books and we now see lots of getting paint shop components lined up and in place for installation, but the biggest news is the arrival of the massive stamping machine components we see that have arrived on some of the largest heavy load trailers I’ve ever seen!
Here are today’s key takeaways:
- In the northeast corner, we can see that GeoPier equipment has been moved back into this area and is most likely going to start work in the next couple of days. Inside of the north end of the paint shop on the second level, we see many of the large components have been lined up and are in position for the next phase of assembly.
- On the west side of the paint shop, we see another component with the TKS markings on the cover, as well as most of the ground floor area being completely walled in with the panels they started installing last week. TKS, is the manufacturer and provider of the paint shop. I’ll leave a link in the description. We next see that they have stacked some of the wall panels up and through the roof and we can see how they are also being stacked on the second level inside of the structure.
- On the perimeter path on the east side headed south, we see the large area that was dug out already having the onsite manufactured pipe installed for the storm water management system.
- In the east area where they are manufacturing the pipe, we get a much better look at the machine and materials used, as well as the many pipes that have been produced. Joe put out an excellent video going over all of this system in full detail and I highly recommend you check it out. I’ll leave a link in the description!
- The south end shows the wall panel installation progress and on the west side of the structure, we see 6 huge trailers with components for the stamping machine concealed under tarps!
- The northwestern corner shows the perimeter grade beam has been extended to the northernmost edge, so it’s likely we’ll see them turn and continue with the angled portion of the perimeter grade beam once this part is finished. Finishing touches on the second pit are taking place as well.
- The switchyard is having many of the components connected together and we see that the circuit breakers are in the process of being installed.
- The large area east of the contractor trailers we’ve been seeing being prepped and covered with gravel mix has had what look to be large wooden beams aligned in a pattern that resemble what you would see associated with a parking lot. Could this be a new parking area for workers and if not, what else do you guys think it’s for?
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@acmefixer1 3 жыл бұрын

At 9:46 That big press has to be moved inside and then unloaded. I wonder how many cranes that's going to take. Heavy duty trailers going to make it through the doorways? At 10:45 reminds me of playing Tic-Tac-Toe. At 18:55 crane installing the high voltage switch. Power, big time! Thanks, Randy for the great video and closeups.

@FutureAZA 3 жыл бұрын

52-wheeler trucks... yep, that's a new one on me.

@clintatk 3 жыл бұрын

Great job, Randy! That new parking lot is enormous. Could the plan be to consolidate all the workers' vehicles in one spot with buses rotating through all shift. It would make sense to clear the random parking all over the site for safety and efficiency.

@andrewjameson5918 3 жыл бұрын

I am from the UK and the site is a mess but then I need to understand that things are done differently in the USA.

@clintatk 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewjameson5918 It may look chaotic, but it's actually very well coordinated. The "mess" comes from different companies working on different phases in the same area. It looks messy, but is just how they are pushing overlapping phases. It's why they can do something like this in a quarter or less time than a standard build. The hidden precision is revealed by the lack of industrial accidents on the site.

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

@@clintatk I agree there is hidden precision there, but it is also pretty obvious that the level of coordination from the top is more limited to “big picture.” One easy example is the way that the ironworkers don’t do partial handovers of the structure. The one that completely baffles me though continues to be the roofing contractor or lack thereof.

@clintatk 3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickkenny2077 The roofing has mystified me too, but there appears to be ongoing roof penetrations happening such as the installation of interior walls through the roof. They also seem to be keeping lots of options open as they continually modify the plans.

@jeffatchison2294 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewjameson5918 I have been watching this construction from the beginning as well as Giga Berlin. I have always felt it was pretty well organized considering the grand scope of the thing. The coordination and management has been extraordinary. What can construction in the UK can you compare with this?

@forwardthinkingtrucker 3 жыл бұрын

Just left from there, and it is new employee parking

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

Have you heard anything about what is going on on the other side of the tollway? Or the area codenamed "grid line" at the southwest corner of the foundation?

@forwardthinkingtrucker 3 жыл бұрын

@@zacadams7070 no sir. It was a mess in there this morning. Plant #2 went down, so I went next door to the Green Plant. Was trying to get out of there before 1 of the other 4 drivers beat me over there. So I didn't get to see the blueprints

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

That's unfortunate. So Musk is going to make his employees walk an extra 1,000 feet just so he can park new cars right next to the building? Doesn't surprise me though.

@jeffatchison2294 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn You might want to wait and see the finished product before you criticize. One question I have is construction employees or plant employees?

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

@@forwardthinkingtrucker Gotcha, not a problem! I always enjoy when you have updates so thought I'd ask!

@larrylotter7190 3 жыл бұрын

moving those stamping presses inside looks tricky

@jameshoffman552 3 жыл бұрын

18:30 The electrical substation is looking pretty spiffy with that new textured drainage ditch.

@FutureAZA 3 жыл бұрын

Any guess what the three buildings are?

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

@@FutureAZA Substation controls.

@FutureAZA 3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickkenny2077 3 them though? Interesting.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

@@FutureAZA 3 phase power. My guess is the buildings may contain backup generators for critical loads like lighting.

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

@@FutureAZA A number of reasons why they might do it that way, but it could just be space constraint in the east-west direction. One could be for the incoming primaries controlled by the utility, and one for each transformer, but you need a lot more information to know for sure.

@JamesWoodTN 3 жыл бұрын

Randy, good morning... those trailers hauling the stamping machines are wild.. Thank you for the views of them., I've been looking at the rocky areas around the switchyard and I think it's referred to as a french drain - in this case quite large. Cheers!

@TerafactoryTexas 3 жыл бұрын

That was my reaction upon seeing the trailers as well James! Thanks for the info on the french drain!

@James_Scheid 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Randy!

@TerafactoryTexas 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome James!

@solarrs 3 жыл бұрын

I think those rows of wooden columns that you spoke about possibly being parking for employees could be covered parking, of course with Solar Panels

@fityfive 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent breakdown.

@TerafactoryTexas 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@mfanto1 3 жыл бұрын

The factory that subsidie paid for

@JSTODDARDJ 3 жыл бұрын

Link to the paint mfg is great! It will be sad day when we can not see what is going on inside!

@grateful7839 3 жыл бұрын

Great review. Thx TEXLA Randy !

@keithwelton 3 жыл бұрын

They will need huge car parking areas once the plant is fully finished and in production. I believe the BMW Spartanburg plant has the highest number of employees in a single car plant in the USA, about 25,000. Of course not all are there at the same time with shift working but at shift changes there are double the number of employees cars as actually working at that time. Also parking is needed for finished cars, look at any car assembly plant worldwide on Google maps and see the cars parked up awaiting delivery.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

Employee parking needs to be as close as possible to the factory. "F" the finished cars. They can be parked further out. Employees first! Without employees, there would be no finished cars.

@cratecruncher6687 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn In my experience it's just the opposite. The employees walk a mile on their own time and the finished inventory is kept under close supervision. Completed car inventory is worth a lot of money and vulnerable to everything. Rank and file workers are a commodity that can be replaced easily unfortunately.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

@@cratecruncher6687 That is exactly why I despise greedy, evil billionaires! Yet Musk has fans that love him. I don't understand why. Now, I hate Musk even more! The only reason I watch these videos is that I love large construction projects.

@LinasVepstas 3 жыл бұрын

Recall that originally, Fremont was supposed to have zero employees; everything was supposed to be done by robots. They sadly discovered that robots are not capable of handling fabric, which is what you need to make car seats. So they gave up on the idea of a "lights-out" factory, and I guess they decided that there are a few other tasks that are not worth automating. So, yes, there will be employees - if nothing else, for robot-maintenance. But there might not be all that many, grand total. BMW Spartanburg -- how old is that plant? If its from the 1980's it's only going to be lightly automated (compared to the 1930's Ford River Rouge plant) and even in the 2000's, robot arms were still pretty finicky and hard to deploy. Robot arms have improved a *lot* in the last few decades.

@cratecruncher6687 3 жыл бұрын

@@LinasVepstas Even Musk has admitted they went to far trying to automate in the Nevada factory. They spent way too much and had inferior quality on some thigs a human can do much more easily. Frankly, I think the American worker is a pretty good deal in 2021 (as a result of competing with the third world for his job for 30 years!)

@haroldz9915 3 жыл бұрын

with that new parking lot, an additional workers onsite they are going to have to adjust start and stop time otherwise thare will be an even larger traffic jam.

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

A number of the existing workers are simply being moved to the central lot to free up more space on site for staging and sitework, so the problem shouldn’t get much worse... although I agree staggering things makes a lot of sense.

@evmike71 3 жыл бұрын

They are getting very close to having production workers on site for training. Model Ys will be rolling out of the eastern building soon.

@joscaca 3 жыл бұрын

How close ?

@BTS70VIDEOS 3 жыл бұрын

Only after they get the sides of the building put up. Then all the robotics moved in and positioned.

@keithfranklin214 3 жыл бұрын

Thought about something yesterday, Will Model Ys start being produced while Cybertruck assembly facility is still being constructed?

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

@@keithfranklin214 Yes, but not a lot of overlap- primarily interior work I would guess.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but I have to disagree. They are no where close to production. They don't even have a completed roof.

@FamilyFirstJ 3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir

@bmgbaby5867 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Randy!! My morning is complete👍🏾

@KonaCarey 3 жыл бұрын

Texas sized storm shelter?

@roslemisri8557 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Randy.

@tomonkysinatree 3 жыл бұрын

Can you show some of the area to the west of the highway? Seems like there has been more activity and they have been stirring up some dirt over there.

@paulstubbs7678 3 жыл бұрын

Wow what a traffic jam near the end, I can't believe how many vehicles are driving around the site, it looks like a main road is going through the center of the site

@kubismatik2 3 жыл бұрын

I hope this is the end of shift or something otherwise this is a significant bottleneck slowing everyone’s work.

@tonyvelasco5732 3 жыл бұрын

@@kubismatik2 It is, he films at the 5pm shift change!

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

@@kubismatik2 It is a significant bottleneck slowing everyone’s ability to LEAVE work and go home.

@Thisisausername719 3 жыл бұрын

The area where they are dropping in internal concrete walls.... Does anyone know what that's for? Maybe a fire proof room(s) for storing flammables? Would love to hear other peoples ideas.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely fireproof storing flammables, or containing something that can burn violently. Paint or maybe batteries? Notice how the walls extend above the roofline?

@robertcase4995 3 жыл бұрын

10:26 4 of the green tarp covered stacks have gone. Did anyone see where they went or what they were?

@TerafactoryTexas 3 жыл бұрын

I was actually looking for them, but couldn't find them anywhere. I wonder if they were taken inside of the stamping machine structure on the south end? I'm definitely keeping an eye out for clues!

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video today, Randy! We can see that they have delivered the parapet attachments over on the east side of the stamping area, and they are sitting on the ground in front of where they will be installed. You can see them around 7:35. I believe this will add 24 to the total number of wall panels that need to be installed, but I'll wait to update that until the extensions get put into place and we can confirm that is the case! Wall panel installation was a little slower over the weekend, and there are only 7 more in the staging area waiting to be installed, so I'm unsure if they will shift focus to something else or if we will see a lot more wall panels delivered in the next 24 hours! They had been installing about 10 per day, so there are less panels stored than they typically complete in a day. Stamping wall panels update: Completed: 204 (78%) (+5 from last video) Remaining: 59 Total: 263 panels East side has 12 sections that each take 6 panels (72 panels) (61 completed) South side including angled corner has 9 sections that each take 8 panels (72 panels) (26 completed) West side has 17 sections that take 7 panels (119 panels) (117 completed)

@DessieDoolan 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Zac. Interesting that they have installed a temporary wall in the northernmost panel location in the west wall, at 10:07. Wonder if they will do the same for the other opening in the middle of the wall. btw, I count 4 panels total to complete the west wall, getting 115 completed.

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

@@DessieDoolan I'm wondering if that is a temporary wall or if they decided to use that blue wall that will eventually be covered instead of putting in wall panels? I had the total at 115 but changed it to 117 today once I saw that temporary wall go in! It looks like it is framed out to be the same size as the panels on the eastern and southern walls that will have roll-up doors. I'll definitely be keeping a close eye on it to see what happens!

@DessieDoolan 3 жыл бұрын

@@zacadams7070 Well a change of plans is a definite possibility. There is a panel with a small doorway that has been on site for 5 or 6 weeks now, but has just been moved to the south west corner along with all the other panels for some reason (maybe geo-piering starting again, or the last footings. That particular panel I had earmarked for where the temp wall is now, it can only go there because of the location of the recess to take the hanging lug on the back of the panel. You probably saw the panel arrive at 17:03. Interesting that the stamping plant panels are transported on edge, but the panels for the mysterious central bunker are transported on the flat. They seem to be around the same height. Might be highly re-inforced.

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

@@DessieDoolan Yeah we have definitely seen a lot of changes on this site! And that definitely makes sense, my eyes hadn't picked up on the bracket being place in the overhang so I'm glad you caught that! I'm hoping they will start on the last footing in the southwest section because I am pretty sure they put geopiers all the way up to the southern terminus of the foundation. And I had missed the wall coming! Hopefully the east wall will get finished today with the exception of the ones that will make up the parapet. And I noticed that also with the central bunker panels. I wonder if they are made by a different company that ships them differently? They are definitely not as long as the ones by the stamping pit, but I agree that they look to be the same height as the others. Highly reinforced is certainly a possibility also because this area had more than twice the amount of steel in other areas so I would suspect these wall panels will be pretty intense also

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

@@DessieDoolan Guessing those are so they can seal off the area temporarily, but still allow for truck access. I would still expect the precast panels to eventually be installed.

@PhillProbst 3 жыл бұрын

Seems to be a lot of standing water puddles inside the covered structures ... roof panels not yet sealed? ... blowing rain?? ... hosing things down to control the pace of curing???

@cratecruncher6687 3 жыл бұрын

The roof panels leak like a colander right now. During a light rain last week JoeT zoomed in revealing quite a shower under those steel roof panels. I'm not sure what they will seal the roof with but there's certainly another step left to do.

@TerafactoryTexas 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the roof still has steps remaining before leaking is no longer an issue.

@enoch1680 3 жыл бұрын

New Robots in the Giga Press Area! Suggests more casting machines to go in soon. Think about front and back castings and 600 out of 1000 robot reduction. I gotta think this place is going to crank out closer to 1M annual production rather than 500k originally expected.

@joscaca 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. This whole Texas site will be producing a few millions. Maybe several when all the factories are built.

@zechmerquise5281 3 жыл бұрын

0:14 looks like they are missing a row of footers for the battery building. The very last row

@dirkkruisheer 3 жыл бұрын

I guess that will be part of the perimeter footings that are approaching from the south

@notvaporlocked5479 3 жыл бұрын

They will have to finish with the three portable purge tanks and get that north edge cleared before they can finish digging that last row

@zechmerquise5281 3 жыл бұрын

@@dirkkruisheer ahhh yes. That could be it!

@jameshoffman552 3 жыл бұрын

How did they do the NW perimeter grade beam so quickly? I didn't even notice it until today.

@randybc6997 3 жыл бұрын

Solar farm and parking in large lot

@no_more_free_nicks 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Randy!

@groszmartoncsaba4025 3 жыл бұрын

in April should be ready if they work in three shifts?!

@AM-mq5yc 3 жыл бұрын

Why work 3 shifts? We are already doing 12 hr days

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

@@AM-mq5yc So people can get some rest? ;)

@larrylotter7190 3 жыл бұрын

isn't the paint system in Austin the same as the state-of-the-art system in Berlin?

@dirkkruisheer 3 жыл бұрын

I think so, yes

@davisonthomas4697 3 жыл бұрын

Whats the projected finish date?

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

My guess is 8 months to 1 year.

@jeffbransky6499 3 жыл бұрын

At 10:06, is that blue wall added to the sides of the doorway on the concrete structure the same as the other blue walls? I’d like to get a closeup someday so the logo can be read. The openings in this west wall look like a tight squeeze for the new stamping presses. I wonder if they plan to back the semi trailers into the building? BTW there is more blue wall inside on the north wall.

@DessieDoolan 3 жыл бұрын

Logo is for American Gypsum.

@BenDOver-le9tb 3 жыл бұрын

There must be a lot of gravity in those stamping press modules

@kkarllwt 3 жыл бұрын

At 15,000 lbs. an axle, the trailer with 10 axles can haul a 150,000 lb. item.

@tywrapking7297 3 жыл бұрын

#1001

@dan_w3st 3 жыл бұрын

19:47 How many parking spots in that lot? Guesstimate 1,300 so far.

@patrickkenny2077 3 жыл бұрын

My guess was 1,200, so we are in the same ballpark.

@keithwelton 3 жыл бұрын

Is the blue partition wall in the stamping area temporary only? The crane rails go through it without end stops by the wall. The wall of course prevents the crane from moving the whole length of the press shop. Is the wall temporary to keep dust out or prying eyes from seeing the presses assembly?

@Freddy735 3 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be the first time a temporary wall was put up like that for various reasons. Without a crane installed on the south side of the wall there would not be a reason for rail stops that would be seen from the drone's view, there may well be stops on the north side.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn 3 жыл бұрын

If the wall is temporary, they went through a lot of trouble putting up a massive steel structure to support the wall. I noticed crane movement along the rails was blocked a few weeks ago, when that began erecting steel to support the wall. Mentioned it in the comments. So far, it remains a mystery. Which we may never know the answer. Because as soon as the exterior wall panels are placed, we can't see inside.

@LinasVepstas 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Well, look, the wall is 75 feet tall. You can't use flimsy sheet-metal studs for the entire height; they needed something more substantial to frame it out. The "massive steel structure" wasn't all that massive, just tall, and it was good-n-rusty to begin with and was never painted. Cheap construction. Nothing else in that place is cheap/shoddy.

@flamingstag2381 3 жыл бұрын

👍🏽 🇦🇺

@cratecruncher6687 3 жыл бұрын

Opus est aurum.

@PaliVCiernom 3 жыл бұрын

Anybody has any idea what is the concrete bunker for? (at 14:25) From below grade to above roof? Is that a water tank? or something reaaally flamable will be in there?

@Freddy735 3 жыл бұрын

Painting related material storage? Flammable stuff.

@zmavrick 3 жыл бұрын

Bast containment. In case of fire of volatile or explosive material the concrete walls will contain the blast and direct the pressure up through the roof which will be designed to give way.

@PaliVCiernom 3 жыл бұрын

Ok, but what could be blasty enough in a car factory?

@Freddy735 3 жыл бұрын

@@PaliVCiernom 10 or 20,000 gallons of thinner and other volatiles comes to mind.

@zmavrick 3 жыл бұрын

@@PaliVCiernom Paint and solvents

@jameshoffman552 3 жыл бұрын

7:00 We see two machines here -- the one on the left that corrugates then spindles the sheet steel into the pipe. I'm guessing that yellow one on the right trims the ends of the pipes generated by the first machine.

@kkarllwt 3 жыл бұрын

I think that the yellow one makes a smaller dia. pipe.

@bobcallahan2322 3 жыл бұрын

I think the yellow machine on the right rerolls the ends for the joint so the connecting bands can seal tighter for less leakage. The machine rerolls corrugations in the steel parrellel to the end of the pipe back about afoot from the ends. Then I think the rack to the far right that has a tarp under it is where they put some kind of sealant at the joint that the connecting bands can seal into. The pipe machine on the left roof the corrugations in and folds the edges for a folded and crimped joint at the edge of the rolls.

@TheLittleBlueOwl 3 жыл бұрын

Did I get it right? It's not the same paint shop (world's most advanced environmental friendly) Giga Berlin is getting? So North America is SOL for those fancy painted tesla Europe will be getting? Why? Why? Why?

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

I believe they will be the same! Berlin is getting a paint shop from Geico, a subsidiary of Taikisha, and this paint shop is from TKS Industrial, which is the US subsidiary of Taikisha!

@JamesWoodTN 3 жыл бұрын

@@zacadams7070 I thought the Berlin paint operation is an Italian company which has phenomenal abilities to create a color shifting process, which Elon mentioned the time he was interviewed while standing on the road in Berlin with a black Model X behind him accompanied by a Secret Service looking dude in sunglasses. The point is -Italian super company with futuristic capabilities which doesn't paint with dirt under the paint like in Fremont - ala Sandy Munro review.

@zacadams7070 3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesWoodTN Both TKS Industrial (Giga Texas) and Geico Taikisha (Giga Berlin) are subsidiaries of Taikisha, the global parent company. TKS Industrial is based out of the US and Geico is based out of Italy. If you check out the TKS Industrial website, they actually link to youtube videos posted on the Geico Taikisha site, so I assume it is the same technology, just under a different company name

@TheLittleBlueOwl 3 жыл бұрын

@@zacadams7070 I hope it the same because I already started to look at how much more it would cost to get Model Y from Germany ... Or just get cyber track - no paint issues whatsoever :)