Major Boring Milestone! S Ext Progress, Cybertrucks Moved! 22 April 2024 Giga Texas Update (08:45AM)
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Major milestone day for the Boring Company as crews were lifting and assembling the gantries into the tunnel and onto the aft end of the Prufrock 3! I did talk to someone I know at the Boring Company about this and they are all excited at this milestone! This also indicates the tunnel is about 80 - 100 meters in length already!
In the video introduction, I discuss some of my tour of the Boring Company facilities in Bastrop Texas and the Hyperloop plaza that is growing quickly in customers and revenue. I will do more in-depth discussions of my tour and what I learned, but will also intersperse some of the updates into my main videos as well.
I also talk about an interview I did with MYSanAtonio.com and what I talked about during the interview. Finally, I recap my experience at the Texas Corvette Association 31st Annual Car Show, where they reached out to me to feature my Cybertruck as the centerpiece display with a Time Machine Delorean. I made four videos about this event which include drone and ground-level images and video I did in support of the request to help them provide a better review of the experience of the car show for their official website and also for the City of Boerne.
Timestamps:
Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 3:52
Drone flight footage & infographics: 4:24 to 32:29
A few highlights to look for today include:
In addition to the Boring Company's major milestone today, we see the Cybertrucks have been shifted around on the west side, with few to no Cybertrucks on the east and south ends of the End-of-Line facility, but many staged on the outbound lot and the new north expansion lot. We also see more Cybertrucks, almost exclusively and without Model Y's on the east testing lot near the helicopter pad
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Crews were moving the ducting from the west staging area over to the Body-in-White and lifting these onto the roof to being finishing the large opening for the new cooling units in this area.
We see much more electrical conduit being installed just south of the electrical switchyard, forming tow parallel lines with many conduit pipes bundled together in trenches.
The south extension is getting a tremendous of work done all over this construction site, including more concrete, additional steel assembly, grade work on the ground level, roof materials being staged on the roof decking, and many more huge glass panels installed.
The mystery structure on the southeast corner continues to grow larger too, now with red scaffolding being erected on the north end. the tall concrete columns appear to have mounts cast into them about1.5 meters form the top, possibly for mounting some kind of structure or equipment.
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5:02. Westside. Tunnel Project. Were a total of 7 back-ups on the ground. 3 must be inside the tunnel already.
10:47. Westside. Tunnel Project. In Joe’s photos (no. 101) the MPVs with the tunnel lining rings are chained together and then chained to the rear of this back-up deck.
Might be that MPVs are being used to restrain the back-up deck as it is let into the tunnel. Looking forward to hear David Salisbury’s take on this.
11:53. Southend, west. Inside. Another retaining wall under construction. Parallel to the diagonal corner of this existing building.
12:23. Southend, west diagonal corner. Inside. Right. Dump truck delivering a load of fill.
12:53. Southend, south. Level 1 inside. Grade being raised. Gravel layer now above the top of the column pedestals. Floor will be elevated about 4’ 1.2m compared to the existing factory.
13:56. Southend, roof. Left. Stud wall constructed at the north. Top is parallel to the roof. Angled sheet between the roof and stud wall.
14:33. Southend, inside. Great view of the retaining walls east-west between the soon to be subterranean passages.
Raised column pedestals one bay north might indicate there has been a change of plans.
Recently added floor beam connection plates on the columns indicates the same.
15:56. Southend. New structure. Centre. Bundles of rebar and ties for constructing concrete beams. Assembling the beam rebar cages.
4 heavy steel column sections in there also.
16:02. Southend. New Structure. Bearer plates spaced out for the formwork staging (Joe’s scaffold). Looks like the structure is getting a concrete roof.
Embedded plates in the columns. On the east and west faces of all columns.
16:52. BIW roof. Left. Pair of the angular cowls for the HVAC system. Another being hoisted to the right.
Top left. New large flue/chimney.
17:54. Parking Garage. Inside. Parking stall line marking visible.
24:43. Crash Test Track. Cybertruck missing the front door. Door ring painted white.
27:24. Casting, diagonal corner. Apron. Saw-cutting the pavement. A trench perhaps up to the electrical vaults.
28:12. Battery, north. Blue wall sheeting used to part infill the wall opening.
29:17. Highway berm. Sanitary Sewer lift station. Maybe not lifting.
29:30. GA, perimeter road. Highway side. Bottom right. HDD rig and an excavator. Been on site for a week.
Hi Dessie: I think there are a total of 8 backup decks/gantries. No.1 was already installed (control cabin, grouting controls). No's 2, 3 and 4 must have been installed in the past 24 hours. We saw here No. 5 being lifted into the entrance. The chains between the segment cars (MPV's) and the deck being installed, I am assuming this is to prevent the deck running away down the tunnel, it is on a pretty steep gradient and once the gantry gets moving it could just run away. Hence chain it to the full loaded MPV's to control its installation.
@@davidsalisbury50 Hi David. I'll add 8 decks to my notes. Could you hazard a guess as to what all these decks are? It would be good to have it recorded here in the comments. Maybe Joe could add it to his upcoming Boring Co video.
Thanks for clarifying what was going on the lining ring segments. I thought it odd they would be sending rings into the tunnel during these works.
27:24 Good catch! Looks like the termination point for the new duct-banks seen @ 30:23. Sometimes I'm right. 🙂
The question remaining.... Do we have 2 new duct-banks to the factory or 4? With 2 going to the vaults @ 27:24 and 2 duct-banks going south all the way to the south end expansion? That is, if the data center rumors are correct.
17:54 Another good catch.
29:17 Lift station. A sh*tty job for the poor guys who have to fix it. 😊
@@DessieDoolan Educated guesses but here's what I think are on the decks/gantries as we move back from the TBM
TBM - includes the cutterhead, bearing, pressure bulkheads, shove rams and articulation (steering) rams, Screw conveyor, drive motors, erector, airlock.
Bridge deck - Links the TBM to the backup decks, acts as a conduit for all the cables/hoses, and as a towbar, as well as the boot end of the conveyor, collecting the spoil from the discharge of the screw conveyor. The segment walker also sits in the invert below.
Backup deck 1 - Control cabin, grout (2-part mixing) pumps, greasing pumps, segment lifter (to rotate 90 degrees)
Backup deck 2 - Hydraulic systems (pumps, controls, tank), cooling water pumps
Backup deck 3 - Electrical switchgear, PLC controls
Backup deck 4 - Other end of segment crane to move segments forward, transformer, compressor
Backup deck 5 - Sub system controls, wastewater tank, grout feed tank
Backup deck 6 - Utility spools (cable extension, utility hoses, extension pipes/hoses)
Backup deck 7 - TBM conveyor drive, main tunnel conveyor tensioner and boot end , conveyor extension sections
backup deck 8 - Ventilation cassette
These could easily be in the wrong order to some extent. Herrenknecht video on an EPB machine shows it all, but in that case, it is a larger diameter so some of the systems are stacked, TBC don't have that luxury, so all systems are linear.
@@tunnellingsalisbury7605 Thanks David! That's great information. I've noted down snippets here and there from your other comments, but getting it all together in one statement reduces the chances of me misunderstanding.
Back-up deck 8. Ventilation cassette. The ducted fan bottom right at 5:21. I gather that doesn't enter the tunnel, but will be connected to the ventilation cassette at some point. Will be relocated to beside the tunnel?
I counted about 190 Cyber trucks in this lot (plus or minus) - at timestamp 8:50
About 120 Cybertrucks in the test lot - timestamp 19:30
Thanks as usual for the commentary and footage.
Interesting to note the new section of steel work in the middle is actually three floors which is different to the rest of the building.
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Was here waiting! Thank you so much!
Got delayed a little today with a visiting tour group from the Czech Republic at Giga Texas
Thanks Joe!
South end:
@ 12:50 Ongoing work to raise the grade to the tops of the column pedestals.
Concrete project near the easement:
@ 15:58 and 16:08 Scaffolding being placed to support forms for beams.
River road extension:
@ 18:25 Ongoing grading work.
Tesla road:
25:10 Stormwater pipe construction.
Speculated new power supply to the factory:
@ 30:18 A good view of a possible route for the new duct-banks. Which is likely to be to the left of the existing main power duct-banks (Notice the vaults in the parking lot).
@ 30:22 Not much change over the weekend but a good view of the new duct-banks.
@ 30:25 A possible location to cross the easement. Note: New duct-banks will have to go over/under existing main power duct-banks.
Another possible easement crossing is up ahead @ 30:45 Where there is another vault location.
@ 31:01 Vaults marked for cutout for 12 conduits!
@ 27:24 As pointed out by Dessie.... Saw-cutting the pavement for a trench perhaps up to the vaults. The likely termination point for for the new duct-banks seen @ 30:23.
Mystery solved. It's a Cyber Bowling Alley. For worker recreation.
Boring Tunnel: Decks 2,3 and 4 already installed, Deck 5 being lifted in; 6,7 and 8 to go. Will need the rest of this week at least to connect, test and commission these backup decks. Also need to re-connect the conveyor to the back of the final deck.
The Boring Company calls these Gantry’s … they told me so during my tour of their facilities
@@JoeTegtmeyer Agreed, some call them decks, some gantries. I often use both or either. Some "look" more like gantries than decks, and vice versa.
@@tunnellingsalisbury7605 Thanks! I appreciate your well-informed inputs and thoughts! Keep them coming!
Another great video Joe! Sorry, but I had to skip to minute: 3:54 because all the stuff prior to that was not what i've been watching your show for the last three years.
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29:00 As far as the 4680 cans go, that could just be a bad production run. Dies can take a beating, but they do wear out over time and do need to be maintained.
I would be shocked if the mystery structure isn't a giant chiller for the data center
I drove by the Katy warehouse and it is packed with battery’s and trailers loaded with the windows for the new section. Let me know if you would like video of it. It would be a cell phone video however.
Katy? That's a town just West of Houston. I didn't know they had a property there. Or why they would.
I've also seen the windows at an Austin location over near Harris Branch.
@@The_DuMont_Networkyeah I’m not sure why it could be availability or something but even the parking lot is overflowing with battery packs
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FYI: 4/23. KXAN: According to new information from the Texas Workforce Commission, Tesla fired 2,688 of its Austin employees.
Thanks Joe…a lot has happened since your last flyover…I am glad to see the asphalt finally being laid…looks like the weather will be nice for the next few days…Tesla just needs to stop all the trucks from the muddy area north of the cathode plant from spreading mud…maybe lay some rocks over that road instead of just mud…😅
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For me it looks like that the red scaffolding is used to construct a concrete form work? For a concrete suspension roof?
That seems to be the case.
300 feet would be about to the first roadway edge, if Google Earth's measuring tool is reasonably accurate. As far as workers walking to the machine, walking the length of a football field isn't all that taxing. I've seen people walk farther than that to waste their money at Starbuck's.
Joe, have you heard if the MY could drive over to the delivery area using FSD? It should be easy to give them instructions of where they need to go instead of having all the drivers? Ultimately the same should apply for CT when it gets FSD
Thanks for the great video Joe. Any idea when the cathode plant will be operational?
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Im happy to see that Elon saw how much of a mud-mageddon Austin can be.... if you look, every parking lot has a drainage ditch or a drainage pond, and there are plenty of ponds and a network of drainage overflow tubes. Its starting to rain more in texas right now.
My guess is that the mystery structure will be a form of display - a giant screen or massive Tesla letters.
14:00 If they are terminating the Boring tunnel within the southern extension, they had better hurry up before there isn't room to bring in a crane to lift the TBM out..... maybe it's going to surface near the old exit door?
IIRC they didn't use a crane after Prufrock 1 surfaced finishing the Westgate2 tunnel, the TBM drove up onto a pile of dirt and then onto a metal frame which allowed it to be carried off on SPMTs. It will be interesting to see what they do this time [and where they end up surfacing]
The TBM can/will be split into its main components, similar to when it was delivered. Maximum about 50T. But still requires a large crane of heavy lifting gear if it surfaces inside the factory. More likely it will surface before the factory, with vehicles driving down a ramp that passes through the gap in the perimeter wall.
If the Boring Tunnel's function turns out to be what I suspect, I think that we will see FSD being utilised to eliminate the need for drivers to move the vehicles over to the end of line facility - full automation in other words. This would mean the elimination of a costly aspect of production at Giga Austin.
Ahh, that new builkding could be a cooling unit if the new extension is going to be a data centre.
16:30 Are they going to be service bays? Employees who own Tesla's get free service on their cars while at work? Tires, Repairs, Upgrades.
i wish!! we can hope anyway!
They Mystery structure could possibly a bus stop for staff. Giga Berlin has Train station and bus stops, supercharger chill lounge etc
Interesting post on X that the new bldg on the S end is for Dojo, and Musk visited recently and became so angry about delays that the construction mgr was fired. If so, good to see Musk getting more involved.
if it's 80~100m into the boring process, about what percentage would that be of the entire length? obviously that depends on where exactly they plan on putting the exit of the tunnel, but with your best estimate, what do you think we're looking at? Always great to have you back, Joe!
25-30% if it is to surface before it enters the factory. 20-25% if it goes inside.
What do you think of the layoffs?
Since the segments are being added to the boring machine how do the workers get to the end of the boring machine? Do they ride the train that delivers the segments? I don’t see any other method for workers to use? It would be a long walk…???
Tunnel will only be 300m or so long. Workers will walk in behind the segment transporter, which operates via a remote control. From the back of the TBM backup decks there is a walkway along the side of the decks. On larger/longer tunnels there will be a side walkway and a dedicated personnel car that drives into the tunnel.
30:00 they need a stop light at that spot
30:00. A good illustration of one of the benefits of a tunnel directly from the end of the production line and across to the New EOL facility.
@@DessieDoolan I didn't realize that you were a fan of the tunnel? Besides, they will still have to drive the cars down to the south end, and drive them at the other end of the tunnel. Nothing really saved.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Maybe they'll build a 2nd tunnel?
@@Gig0Surf Oh God, I sure hope not. One big waste of time/effort is bad enough. In my opinion, the main benefit of the tunnel to the guy who owns the place is to hype and promote the Boring company.
One of the previous arguments for the tunnel was that there would be such a high volume in production that would make a tunnel worth it. But.... Then according to news reports, they canceled or delayed indefinitely, their high volume production Model 2!
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn I have no insights on their current priorities, maybe we'll find out more later today.
I assumed the Model2 / Robotaxi production would would be relatively modest compared to the GigaMexico production plans and that Model Y and Cybertruck volumes would only continue to ramp, but Elon's recent actions certainly have made that less clear.
Still, a 2nd tunnel from the Model Y EOL would remove that bottleneck and separate new cars from factory traffic. One would hope that now that Prufrock3 is running that another tunnel would be faster [even if they needed to relocate the supporting equipment to the north of West EoL]
Great job Joe!
Do you have any idea how much a single 12,000 pound sheet of glass cost is?
I guess those Cybertruck are parked inside the warehouse look building...
That building isn't a warehouse but is the end-of-line facility where, as I understand it, any post production repairs/adjustments are made.
@@Gig0Surf correct plus final testing, alignments and inspection. Definitely not a warehouse and I’ve covered the purpose of the EOL facility many times.
Assuming the tunnel goes into the building; how are they getting the machine out once it’s done tunneling? I’m not a building engineer, but it looks like they aren’t leaving a way out for it.
@29:05 any idea what the thing behind the third trailler back is? It looks retractable
29:05. Some type of compactor was getting a run in the comments. The trailers that back up to it are unique. Jeff's 11 March video at 2:43 shows a changeover of trailers.
How far is the tunnel entrance from the wall of the factory?
It is about 1000 feet from the tunnel west end to the west factory wall.
As measured on Google Earth which has up-to-date photography.
Maybe the mystery structure is for a ginormis sign / logo.
What happened to the column’s which had been secured into the large concrete footing/pad which were all lined up?
Not sure which area you are specifically asking about
You know I am quite curious about why Tesla don't cover a lot of facility and parking car with solar panel to get power. Do you know why ?
123 at time stamp 19.29
Its tunneling rate is not very fast - or their quoted rates are when fully deployed and running mid tunnel already ?
Rate up to now was fairly slow, but TBM's always are for the first 50-100m. They have been working with umbilical power, hydraulic and electronic systems connections.
Once they have installed the backup decks and got them commissioned they can go full speed. Although I expect this to be no more than 10-15m per shift, which would be good progress for a TBM of this type.
So the big question, where the tunnel will exit!? Inside the S extension? ( i'm only at 25% of the video, sry if you already answer it in the video 😂 )
Why does no one know what those columns are for?
Because no one here works for Tesla that has that information
@@michaeljohnson1805 10,000 people on that job site and none of them ever watch these videos?
@@rtz549Tesla workers don’t know what goes on with construction…and why do you think they want to tell you? Why don’t you just go there and ask someone if you are so bothered by not knowing?
@@rtz549 They do watch and I'm sure at least some know but they are not going to talk about it. Why risk your job for something like that?
@@sammyk874 Yep, NDAs. From time to time an empolyee will make a comment..............then crickets.
Warum habe ich letzter Zeit (etwa 3 Wochen) so eine schlechte Auflösung ihrer Videos die sich nicht ändern läßt?
Mystery structure houses Musk's _transporter room_ . 🛸
Can we transport him to Mars 😀
Is nobody buying cybertrucks?
So you spent time with the Boring folks and you didn't ask them where the Boring tunnel @ GigaTexas is going to emerge??? Shame on you.
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