"Active West Side" Tesla Gigafactory Texas 4/25/2024 9:48AM
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- The west side was buzzing with activity today. Plenty of cybertrucks and Model Ys being loaded onto carriers. Some work on the Megapacks. Lots of work going on the south end.
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🤔 Sometime i get a nostalgia for your original style of fix position watching. It is great to see an overview, but it's good to watch a process for a bit to get a sample of the doing that is going on, the real people, digging a ditch or laying roofing. It makes you feel more present on site and connected with the people and activities. Plus, watching other people work is very relaxing.
Prufrock tunnel. Approx 240 stacks of 3x segments on site. Enough for 180m of tunnel. Still at least 40+m worth of segments to deliver.
Saw a new Model 'Y' in my grocery store lot today. OMG, how beautiful it is in blue. Very impressive. I was actually embarrassed for my own ICE car. lol But, I don't think I could ever give up a Model 'Y' to become a robotaxi. It's too beautiful to 'put out on the street'. lol
Yesterday, there was a white SUV on top of the parking garage which tells us that the parking garage is at least partially able for vehicles to drive up thru all the floors to the
roof. It wont be much longer before employees will be parking in it. I'm taking bets on
June 1st.
!
I will bet by mid-May for the west half.
next week
Thanks Brad
0:46. Southend, east corner. Gensets either side of the corner.
1:17. Southend. New Structure. There goes the bridge crane idea. Formwork in place for what will evidently be a roof. Maybe a central hoist suspended under. Once some rebar is placed it will be more obvious what is going on here.
Formwork overhangs the columns by around 2m 7’.
2:21. Windtunnel. Cybertruck parked.
3:02. BIW, roof. Right. Angular cowls fitted. Some mesh decking installed.
Left. Stamping, roof. Behind the parapet wall. Frame for Roof Pipework Project being installed. 3:25 also.
Will need to go up and over the stairwell structure, or a stair will need to be installed over. Similiar to those at 4:39 to the right.
4:07. Southend, inside. Retaining wall. Still not obvious to me what the purpose of the wall is. Tunnel alignment (not necessarily the tunnel) is to the right.
Southend, roof. Steel decking. Pairs of the red roof drain inlets in place. Finished membrane, inlets marked with a red circle.
4:45. Southend, west. Apron. Replacement lid for the Sanitary Sewer deep well. Larger door opening seems to be the difference.
Low-loader parked.
5:00. Southend west, inside. Black band around the base of the raised column pedestals. May have reached the finished grade for the fill.
5:12. Southend west, inside. Retaining wall footing. Likely at the location where the floor grade changes.
Far right. Inside. Yellow plastic membrane laid.
5:38. Westside, storage. Bottom right. Roll-up door, rolled out.
7:19. Westside, Tunnel Project. Left. Spoil in the spoil pit. TBM operational.
13:32. Temporary switchyard area. Bottom left. Loading up some beer money.
Bottom. Transition between concrete and steel stormwater drain has been encased in concrete.
13:40. Tesla Road. North. Vacuum/suction excavation exploratory trenches. Ductbank/s coming through here.
14:44. Casting, diagonal corner. Apron. Vault lid removed. Pavement demolition underway. Angled line of trench visible.
Left. Road. Black chainwire mesh fence being erected.
14:55. Casting, diagonal corner. Apron. Right of the blue bins. Heat affected materials, likely out of one of the furnaces. Possibility that one of the old furnaces is being demolished, or some maintenance work perhaps. Better view in Joe’s photos.
15:21. Casting east. Apron. Crane set up to remove the saw-cut wall panel segments of a new door opening.
15:40. MM Batch plant. Right. Truck backed up to one of the wash-out pits.
Hey Dessie! 14:19 looks like the Alimak from the tall platform has been removed and they might be removing the one from the next platform. Not sure if this has been pointed out before or not!
@@zacadams7070 14:19 Well spotted! A quick check of Joe's video shows it was gone yesterday.
7:19 Didn't our resident tunnel expert expect the downtime to add the TBM segments to be weeks? Seems like it's only been 3 or 4 days! I wonder if he's impressed?
@@eclecticmemes 7:19. One to two weeks from memory. Seems it was a week.
Looks like they hired a new carrier company. Don't recall seeing all those green car haulers before.
That's literally LOTS of "Ferraris". (referencing some Wall St. pundit predicting the CT would sell as many as an exotic sports car)
I think the Cybertrucks will sell, but they will hit a wall when sales tumble, just as they have for the s and x. I don't believe there is much demand once the first million or so are sold. In my humble opinion the Cybertruck is really a status symbol, it gets attention wherever it is seen, and mostly the first buyers were popular social media or famous singers and actors.
Merci👍👍👍
Thank you!
If you look at the cassette for the coveter belt it is rather easy to see how far the boring tunnel has advanced, I think they have used three of the vertical conveyor segments, determine how long each segment is from top to bottom x by 3, and you will be roughly in the ballpark of how far they have bored. I think about 150 meters so far, roughly.
I count 159 Cybertrucks in the east lot, but I may be off by one or two.
On the east side, it's roughly three full rows to make one hundred.
easy 300 in the west fix-hold lot.
Völlig überraschend wird immer noch das Megapacks repariert …
Cheers as always.
The amount of tunnelling can be metered by how far the bottom of cassette rollers move up. Then they will reset by putting another segment from the spare belt that is on the girder. The cassette makes it possible for reach to be infinitely variable without any slack. That's my guess.
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We need this type of building and manufacturing, ALL over America. We should build EVERYTHING, and Import Nothing. I had no idea how big Elons dream, really is. What kind of drone camera did you use, and can a person buy one off the Rack? Great Footage, My Respects, RH DSD
I use a DJI Mavic 3 Classic.
@@BTSloan70 About the same price as a Tyler Mount...seat cushion! 🤣
Thanks Brad!
Concrete project by the easement:
@ 1:16 It will be interesting to see how open the top deck will be once they start laying rebar.
Parking garage:
@ 2:41 (Bottom right), 2:46 (Bottom right), and 2:55 (Bottom left) All vault covers on the vaults. Electrical work likely done for now.
New power supply to the factory:
@ 14:46 (Right, by the building) Vault cover removed. Excavator removing sections of the slab around the vaults. These vaults may have to be reworked. There are only 8 conduits going into the building from each vault. The new duct-banks contain 12 conduits each!
@ 13:18 Ongoing work to construct new duct-banks, duct-banks connected to the vaults.
@ 13:26 (Bottom) New vaults ready to be placed.
@ 13:32 (Bottom) Stormwater pipe finally competed after demolishing part of the old duct-bank from the temporary substation. Loading cable from demolished duct-bank onto trailer.
@ 13:40 (Bottom) Appears to have been some hydrovac excavation along the duct-bank alignment.
Mr Johnson I am not an expert on electricity….how much electricity is that going to be with 12 conduits? I can’t imagine the cost of all that electricity! BTW I just wanted to say that I find your comments on the construction of the power to the factory interesting. Even though as someone that doesn’t understand most of what you are talking about!
@@michaeljohnson1805Thanks. I have some knowledge of this stuff but I'm not an expert. But we do have electrical experts on here who can chime in and correct me if I make a mistake. Calculating power in this case is an estimate. Because to calculate power you have to know the voltage and the current carrying capacity of the cables. From the interconnection agreement, we do know the voltage. Which is 24.9 kV (24,900 volts). However, we don't know the exact current carrying capacity of the cables.
Each of those conduits caries a 3 phase circuit with 3 cables. I can give you a guess or estimate of perhaps 10 megawatts per conduit? Again, the experts can jump in if my estimate is high or low.
Here is another comparison that may help...
Currently the factory is served by two duct-banks with 8 conduits each. With only 7 conduits in each duct-bank actually being used. So the new duct-banks will have 150% more capacity than the existing duct-banks to the factory.
One more clarification..... While there are two existing main power duct-banks, and.... Two new duct-banks being constructed.... In other words there are actually 24 conduits being added. We count only 12 because the system is designed to be redundant. So they can shut down one duct-bank for service without interrupting factory operations. By the way, that redundancy starts at the transmission lines, extends all the way through the substation, and the duct-banks to the factory.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn thanks
@@michaeljohnson1805 You're welcome! And if there is anything else you have questions about, I will try to answer. If I can't due to lack of knowledge, I'm sure someone else here can.
8:02 It looks to me like the bottom of the belt cassette is raised half-way, so they've used up half the spare conveyer belt. As the boring machine digs farther into the tunnel, a longer belt is needed to convey the dirt out, so the cassette slowly raises as the machine goes forward. When they run out, they'll attach the spool positioned above the belt, extending the length, and lowering the cassette back down to store the excess until it's needed. I figure you can estimate the distance they've dug by multiplying the height they've raised the cassette by the number of belt switchbacks in the cassette, but I'm bad at that sort of spacial estimation, so I won't guess a number. [Or at least that's my understanding of the process; if I got anything wrong, please let me know.]
Restarted tunnelling. One ring advanced.
Belt cassette is 26 falls so distance white beam climbs x 26 is the tunnel advance.
@@davidsalisbury50 Is it 26 up and down? So 52x? That's what I thought I saw.
I made it 26 up and down, but remember the belt in the tunnel goes in and out. So 1m tunnel requires 2m belt. Hence 26x
@@davidsalisbury50 I assume the boring machine continues with a downward angle and at some point will level off and then begin to angle up. What keeps the belt from touching the walls and the ceiling of the tunnel when the cutter begins to rise?
I’m no expert on conveyors but I have seen them going round curves (large radius) and on slow vertical curves. This is handled by having rollers at the sides and on top at the edges respectively. The conveyed material runs in the centre so small rollers on top at the sides of the belt should do it.
Why does teh parking structure not have a solar roof?
It would be interesting if you were able to zoom in on that mystery structure that has some concrete for 2:36 ms I'd like to get a close look at those.
2:36. Which structure?
Southend new structure, I believe could be a fire station, The overhang sort of gives it away, there should be another level for admin restrooms, sleeping areas, training, spares storage and canteen, then a level with water tanks.
Probably wrong, but the overhang is not a real functional piece of the building other than to protect people from rain or rain ingress into the structure.
Could also be a part of the boring tunnel around the building to transport workers, look how close it is to the parking structure. So it could be a station and the north-east and west where they are removing concrete from the slab could be where different stations are, possibly being placed with lifts down to the tunnel. Might also be for materials transport around the site, but I would take a wild guess it is for workers as it is so close to the parking structure. If the new structure to the north-east of the building gets similar construction, similar pilings, then I think the cat is out of the bag. Or it could be for both staff and materials transport. I believe if we see some gantry construction materials then it will be almost guaranteed as boring tunnel stations, I always wondered why they would only build a few hundred meters of tunnel from one side of the free way to the other, it would have been much more cost-effective to build a bridge. It took months to prepare the boring machine and get it working, why waste that with only a few hundred meters of tunnel when it now being set up could travel all over the site at not much more cost other than materials.
My two cents worth.
The most cost effective approach is to not waste money on a tunnel. The guy who owns the place claims that self driving is "just around the corner". Of course, he's been claiming that every year since 2015! If there were any truth to what he says, there would be no need for a tunnel. The vehicles would be able to drive themselves to the other side. Personally, I don't see any practical use for 12' tunnels anywhere. Except perhaps pedestrians or to carry utilities.
As for transporting workers around the site.... Buses are far cheaper and more efficient. Just my opinion on Boring company tunnels.
auto industry tails in between once all the vehicles from Tesla will have 48v & SBW.
Look at all those gas and diesel trucks and tractors building that place
Only now are companies like Caterpillar getting into electric earthmoving machines.
@@BTSloan70 Electric crawler cranes and piling equipment are becoming more common, as they tend to stand in one place for extended periods. Tunnelling and mining have been using electric and electric/hybrid machinery for decades.
I am addicted to watching this daily, please keep it up. Joe is screwing up, his head has gotten to big.
I just try to keep it simple. The image is everything.
@@BTSloan70 Plus, you put on some good music tracks. Today's are great. Where did you get these from?
@@davevornberger TH-cam music library
@@davevornberger Indeed the track that started at around 5:30 had my toes going. I remember dancing to EDM with good DJs, and hitting the club at midnight and dancing till past dawn. Now, I’m doing good to make it till 10 before hitting the bed.