Gigafactory Texas on 14 December 2020! This is where the Cyber Truck and Model Y will be built!
It was an extremely cold day out at Giga Texas as we had a cold front come through yesterday evening and early this morning, with winds over 30 mph at some points. Fortunately, the winds died down by the time I arrived, but wind chills were in the 20's, making flying a bit "challenging" but I was successful!
In today's video, we discuss some additional land purchases Tesla has completed to add more land (now about 2,530 acres) to the Giga Texas overall property. In addition, they arrayed the sample material selection right in front of where I launch the drones, so I got some particularly good looks and footage of these panels and materials. This is kind of like going to Home Depot to select materials for a (very large) kitchen remodel, so that was interesting to see.
Here are the key highlights from today:
- There was a very prominent material selection display arrayed out on the northwest part of the foundation as if it was prepared for Tesla employees to make final selection for the exterior parts of the structure. This would include type of material and color selections as well as textures
- The new (small) steel structure had all of the main cross braces installed for the three segments (so far) but they had not yet installed the floor beams. Active stacking and pre-positioning of more steel columns and materials was going on around the structure this morning, so preparations for more work is underway
- GeoPier work on the southwest of the foundation continued and is very near the southern external wall area of the foundation
- In the big concrete structure south of the isolation foundations, more concrete cross beams were being installed and prep work on a column to allow for the installation of another concrete roof beam and then double-T roof segments
- The isolation foundation now has two poured concrete "tops" and fill dirt is nearly complete on the west, north and central-west areas of what was once the "Big Pit". Additional scaffolding work was underway in the central foundation area, suggesting the top section will be constructed in this area soon. More large concrete beam footings were under construction on the east side of this area
- The "Zippered Pit" is getting some substantial column footings that look remarkably similar to the concrete footings being constructed in and around the isolation pit area. This suggests that concrete columns will be used here as well and lends credibility to the idea that a large bridge crane will be installed in this area in the future
- The large steel structure has now grown to over 600 feet long with new sections on the south and the north. On the north, they are just two more sections from reaching the north exterior wall base!
- On the northeastern section of the foundation, right next to the steel structure, more very large footings are being excavated and filled with rebar and mud base. These are different in size and placement to those used for the steel structure, and most of the rest of the footings across the rest of the foundation. This suggests something different is being constructed here but what remains a mystery
- There are three new contractor trailers on the ease "switchyard" area today ... not sure if this signals the start of construction in this area, the temporary staging area for the trailers to be moved farther east, or if this is a new area for construction companies to set up shop. Will need to monitor this in the coming days
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Timestamps:
New Land purchase discussion: 0:14 to 2:16
Overview and map of areas to be visited in the video: 2:17 to 4:02
Drone flight footage and infographics: 4:08 to 21:12
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Drone flight over Giga Texas is with permission of Tesla and CEO Elon Musk
14 дек 2020
