🎉 Tesla Gigafactory Texas Is Officially OPEN! 🚗⚡| AI Revolution

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Big news from the Lone Star State! 🤠 Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas is now officially OPEN, marking a major milestone in Elon Musk’s vision for the future of sustainable transportation and manufacturing 🏭🌱.  This massive facility, located just outside Austin, will be the main production hub for the Model Y, the upcoming Cybertruck, and future Tesla innovations. With cutting-edge automation, Giga Press technology, and eco-conscious design, this factory is more than just a plant—it’s a glimpse into the future of industry 🛠️🚀.  Giga Texas will create thousands of jobs, boost local economies, and accelerate Tesla’s mission to make electric vehicles mainstream across America and beyond 🇺🇸🌍.  This is just the beginning. The road to a cleaner, smarter future runs through Gigafactory Texas.  #Tesla #GigafactoryTexas #ElonMusk #ModelY #Cybertruck #ElectricVehicles #EVRevolution #TeslaNews #FactoryLaunch #MadeInTexas #SustainableEnergy #AutoInnovation #TeslaGigafactory #TexasTech #SmartManufacturing #FutureOfMobility #CleanEnergy #GreenTech #TechNews #EVProduction

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00:00The Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas is officially open for business.

00:06This now joins Fremont, California, Shanghai, China, and Berlin, Germany in a growing list of

00:12international locations where the company produces their electric vehicles. With an

00:18official cyber rodeo opening party on April 7th, Elon Musk will deliver the first Model Y vehicles

00:25from Giga Texas, which are also the first in a new generation of Tesla vehicle architecture

00:32that incorporates their in-house developed 4680 battery cell and structural battery pack.

00:40These cars may look like a regular Tesla Model Y on the outside, but on the inside, the made-in-Texas

00:47vehicles are a great leap forward in design and technology. This is all made possible by one of

00:55the largest and most advanced manufacturing plants in the entire world. And unlike the

01:02odyssey of its sister factory in Germany, Giga Texas has come together at a spectacular pace

01:08and will be a legitimate game changer for Tesla's operations in North America. So, today we are

01:16talking about everything that has gone into making Giga Texas what it is today and where

01:22this factory will take us in the future. Let's get going.

01:30The sheer size of this factory is pretty difficult to grapple with. The middle section is three

01:37quarters of a mile long, with one quarter mile in width. To walk a lap around the entire thing

01:43would be nearly two miles in distance. There are four levels to the factory that make up a height

01:49of about seven stories, and the total floor space adds up to around 8 million square feet.

01:57Underneath that monolithic diamond shape that we see today is actually three individual buildings

02:03running lengthwise across the factory. The reason that Tesla did this was to allow for covered roadways

02:10to run through the interior of the Gigafactory. This way, they can drive full tractor trailers in the

02:16center of the plant to make pickups and deliveries directly to the location that they are needed.

02:22Tesla did something similar with the new Gigafactory in Germany. They surrounded the entire perimeter of

02:28the building with docking bays for semi-truck trailers to allow targeted deliveries. But this still would

02:35require internal transportation for supplies to reach the center of the factory floor. Giga Berlin though

02:41is much smaller by comparison to Giga Texas, so it doesn't matter as much. So far, the best look at

02:48the interior of the factory we have seen has come from this guy, DJ Ski. I don't know who he is either,

02:54but for whatever reason, Tesla gave him a tour of the factory and let him record some video for

03:00Instagram. That was published on March 24th. So, the first thing that we can see is that Tesla has a

03:07Model Y hanging from the ceiling at a weird angle, like it's about to crash into the floor or something.

03:14I don't know about that either, but as DJ Ski moves through the factory, we can see a lot of Model Y

03:19vehicles and parts in various stages of construction, seemingly all painted either black or blue. We can

03:26also see that there is a lot of wide open space inside the factory that has yet to be developed.

03:32Model Y production at Giga Texas is just step one. At some point in the next year, this will be joined by

03:40production lines for the Tesla Cybertruck and even their gigantic electric semi-truck. There is also going to

03:47be a full production line for the 4680 battery inside the factory as well. Giga Texas is the closest thing

03:54that we have seen yet to Elon Musk's grand vision of an alien dreadnought factory that can produce full vehicles

04:02purely through automation, a machine that builds machines. In order for that to be possible,

04:08then we need every aspect of the vehicle produced under one roof, or at least on the same factory site.

04:16Tesla's plant in Fremont, California is a very bad example of this concept. They can't even fit all of

04:22the necessary production equipment for the vehicle body under one roof. They had to resort to installing

04:27the Gigapress machines in the parking lot and putting up giant tents to build the Model 3 and

04:33Model Y. Batteries and packs from Fremont vehicles are manufactured in Nevada and shipped over for

04:38final assembly. It's pretty far from full automation, but hey, you gotta start somewhere.

04:44The Gigafactory in Shanghai is a pretty close approximation to the autonomous alien dreadnought idea.

04:50They did manage to fit all of the vehicle production equipment inside the factory. They don't have

04:56to make any parts in the parking lot, and they may not have on-site battery production, but they do

05:02have Tesla's battery cell manufacturing partners in China like CATL very close by.

05:08We've known for a while now that Tesla plans to cover the entire roof of Giga Texas with solar panels.

05:15Observers have already noticed that they plan to spell out the word Tesla across the top

05:19with strategically placed gaps in the panels. Something new that we are just learning is that

05:25Tesla has plans to install a large battery storage facility next to the factory that will manage the

05:32power generated by those panels. In a permit application filed with the city of Austin,

05:37Tesla is proposing to build utility and associated improvements on a 53.27 acre site at 12601 Tesla Road

05:47next to Giga Texas. The application was filed on March 25th with the project name Giga Texas

05:54LCRA Permanent Switchyard and BESS, giving a few hints about what those utilities and associated

06:02improvements will be. That abbreviation stands for Battery Energy Storage System, which in this case

06:09would be the Tesla Megapack unit, enough to cover 53 acres. Tesla says that they can deploy one gigawatt

06:17hour of storage capacity with Megapack on just three acres of land. So I don't know how to calculate the

06:23maximum capacity when you factor in all of the support infrastructure and other stuff that will

06:28take up space on site. But needless to say, they are looking at installing a very substantial energy

06:35storage system alongside the factory. One quick question for you. Would anyone out there be

06:40interested in joining a new Tesla and Elon Musk focused Discord? Well, we've just launched our very

06:46own here at the Tesla space, and we'd like to invite everyone to join and help get this thing off the

06:51ground. We're really hoping to be able to replicate the fun, informative vibe of the channel in a more

06:57interactive Discord community. So please come with open minds and good vibes only, and we can get some

07:03like-minded people together to have some fun, informative discussions on our favorite topics,

07:09Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and more. The link is down below in the description.

07:14Like we said off the top, the Model Y that is being produced at Giga Texas is a different

07:19internal design than the Model Y made at Fremont that American consumers have been receiving for the

07:25past two years. Giga Texas is making full use of die-casting technology, with a large section of the

07:32production floor dedicated to Tesla's Gigapress machine. These are humongous mechanical presses that use

07:396,000 tons of force to press molten aluminum alloy into molds. These casting machines are powerful enough

07:47to create both the front and rear quarters of the vehicle frame, using one single piece for each. No other

07:54automaker, and maybe no other manufacturer of any kind, has ever been able to implement such a large

08:01single piece casting into their production design. The upshot of this technology is pretty simple. Instead of

08:08sticking together a bunch of small parts to try and make one big one, Tesla can use this injection method to form

08:14liquid metal directly into one large, solid part. Tesla have been doing this successfully for about a year now,

08:22with the rear section of the Model Y frame. That's one of the parking lot additions at the Fremont factory.

08:27A Gigapress. But production at Giga Texas doubles that up with a casted front section as well.

08:35So, the entire frame, from the driver's feet to the front bumper, is all one solid piece of aluminum.

08:41This helps to make the car stronger, lighter, more resistant to corrosion, and less susceptible to manufacturing defects.

08:49And because that isn't enough, these cars also get Tesla's latest and greatest in battery and pack design,

08:58the 4680 cell in a structural pack.

09:01So, we've already talked for hours about this energy system in the past.

09:05Definitely check out our video, The Real Reason Tesla Developed the 4680 Battery, for a more thorough explanation.

09:12But, in the short form, this is an extremely efficient and powerful new battery design

09:18that Tesla is currently manufacturing at their own production line in California.

09:23They are targeting a much faster and cheaper battery to produce than their current generation of cell

09:28that has been going into the Model 3 and Model Y.

09:32Eventually, Tesla will soon be manufacturing the 4680 on-site at Giga Texas,

09:37and eventually at Giga Berlin as well, in a separate building located adjacent to the existing vehicle factory.

09:45A special aspect of these cells is that they will integrate into what Elon Musk calls a structural battery pack.

09:52So, much the same idea as the front and rear casting.

09:56Tesla are replacing a bunch of small parts, which go into the pack,

10:00which then get bolted into the frame of the vehicle.

10:02Like a box within a box within a box kind of deal.

10:05The new cells go straight into a pack without the need for modules.

10:10And then that pack is attached between the front and rear Giga castings without the need for a separate frame.

10:17The pack is the frame.

10:19The top of the battery becomes the floor of the car,

10:22and the seats are actually direct mounted to the top of the pack.

10:26And same story again.

10:27Stronger, lighter, more efficient, and lower margin for error.

10:31The simplest path is most often the correct one.

10:35Unfortunately, we are still very much in the dark about what the particular specs of these Texas-made Model Ys will be.

10:42We can clearly see that hundreds of them have already been produced,

10:46and staged in the parking lots surrounding the factory.

10:49Most of them have been black and blue.

10:52But recently, we've also seen white and even red cars coming out of the production floor.

10:56So we know the paint shop is up and running at nearly full capacity right now.

11:02At first, we were only seeing the long-range Model Y variant with the standard silver wheels.

11:07But recently, we've also been catching vehicles with the black coated rims.

11:12So these could be more long-range vehicles with the induction wheel upgrade,

11:16or even the performance variant of the Model Y that is only available with the blacked-out Uber turbine wheels.

11:23This is already a big step up from Giga Berlin,

11:27which by the time of its first deliveries was only producing the Model Y performance in black and white.

11:33Not much variety at all.

11:34The only thing we don't really know about this Texas-made Model Y

11:39is whether or not the specs in regards to range and acceleration

11:42will differ at all from the Fremont-made car.

11:46Given the advancements in battery cell and pack technology,

11:49it's definitely possible that Tesla could spec these up to be an improved performer in both categories.

11:56But then that makes things complicated with the product line

11:59and setting customers' expectations as to what car they're actually going to receive.

12:05Chances are, the Texas car and the California car are going to be identical on the spec sheet,

12:11even if they are wildly different in physical design.

12:1490% of consumers will not notice or even care about the difference.

12:19It's basically just people like us that are going to obsess over this stuff.

12:23But we're not normal.

12:24Of course, having said all that,

12:26now Elon Musk is probably going to announce a ton of new details about the Model Y on his Twitter

12:31that debunk our video before we even publish it.

12:34But such is life.

12:36After that, the big question remains,

12:39is just how many vehicles will they be able to build in the first year of production at Giga Texas?

12:46Let us know your forecasts in the comment section below.

12:50100,000? 200,000?

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