Those large trees are called heritage trees. Cutting one down is quite costly. Tens of thousands of dollars for the first one. Cut additional ones down and you won't get any future building permits. Before development was approved the city arborist walked the site, identified and tagged trees to be saved, and also calculated how many would have to be replaced. Austin takes its tree very serious. One of the few good parts about living in the People's Republic of Austin.
I've always considered oak trees the state tree instead of pecan trees. Don't get me wrong, while I still love pecan trees, I've always considered the Texas Post Oak Tree the far more majestic one and fitting as the State tree.
Joe. Thanks for the detailed introduction. 6:00. South end. Pond perimeter beam. Trench and geo-fabric/membrane for a drain to intercept water that could otherwise build up behind the wall. No one likes a damp patch. 6:22. South end. Retaining wall. Likely a drain here as well behind the retaining wall. 6:44. Splitter box. Drain around the perimeter. Slotted/perforated pipe to capture what would be a damp location around an impervious surface (concrete roof of the splitter box). A ‘French Drain’ I gather from the comments, would be an aggy (agricultural) drain where I’m from. 7:30. South east corner GA. 2 corner wall panels on the ground. Been here for months. 8:38. Stamping extension. Great shot! Deep inside, the additional row of columns for the bridge crane beams in the High Bay area are visible. Think that might be the hard edge of a floor slab also. There’s an excavator in there as well, so almost guarantees a slab (to dig up). 10:06. East side easement. Bottom left. Gas line. The replacement pipe now connected, though not necessarily live. Same at north end near the temporary batching plant at 18:21. 12:02. West side GA. Large door opening between the loading docks likely to get a ramp at some point. 12:32. West side GA. Saw cut and busted out the slab and top of the perimeter grade beam. Start of a grand entrance. 16:49. North end. Battery/Plastics stud walls being constructed on 2 levels. Fire walls likely. 17:07. North end Paint, apron. Wide gap between the apron being used for pedestrian access and this about to be poured slab. Pedestrian access slab might be temporary only. 17:15. North end Casting, apron. Cutting the contraction joints with small wheeled demolition saws. 17:33. North end Casting. Electrical vaults. Broken out an opening on the building side. A connection to the drain also to keep the vault dry. 17:42. East side Casting, apron. Boxing/formwork for 2 narrow curbs/kerbs. 22:17. RTO roof. The green sheeting is the firewall between the RTO area and Battery. The squat red walls are timber, and I’m fairly certain are just a way to get the roof membrane joint up and out of the way being a joint at the roof surface. 22:23. RTO roof. Not sure why the big gap. Wide enough for another wall to project up through. Thinking the design not settled here.
We're partly French, here in Texas. I mean, really. The French flag did once fly over Texas. The French Legation is a minor tourist attraction. Anyway, if you don't have a French drain on your property, you don't own property.
@@DessieDoolan In French " *pierrée* " seems to be your English "French drain". It is built like "stone-ade" or "stone-way". Just "drain" looks acceptably specific too, since the other forms of (English) drains have very different names. Funnily, "drain" comes from English, and the "French" in french drain comes from the inventor, not the place. Also, the English Wikipedia article mentions **14** synonyms!
@@musaran2 I had an idea there was a French connection with you, but couldn't find a reference that I was confident wouldn't cause me some embarrassment. I know John Weiner lives in Paris. I have managed to embarrass myself before with this sort of thing, once asking someone who turned out to be Austrian, if he was from the Netherlands. His response not printable, and offensive to both my Dutch and German ancestry! Thanks for the translation and the research, I wouldn't have thought to look in Wikipedia. I notice that the Australian term (agricultural drain) is prominently listed as the last synonym. A lawyer and Treasury Secretary inventing a drainage system, couldn't happen today. I reckon English would have vacuumed up more French words, than French would have English words.
@@DessieDoolan Yup, French. I just don't mention it if not relevant to the discussion. If confused for somewhere else, I would just be intrigued by the reason. Note professionals might have specific names I don't know. English is basically made up of borrowed words. :D
I thinking Tesla should be building a test track real soon, start cleaning the roads around the factory and the new Teslas will be charging on the west side of the factory. Far as parking, maybe on the west side too. It will be an interesting next three weeks on what happens.
Brad The factory will be putting out a model Y every 90 seconds. I don't see how they could charge over a thousand new EVs a day - there are just not enough chargers! Fremont has a huge lot of new cars, staged in rows for loading onto big rigs. Hardly any chargers. I'm wondering where they're going to put a thousand new cars a day here at Giga Texas! And a year from now that number will double when the Cybertruck starts production.
@@acmefixer1 /they don't have to charge vehicles just have enough to move them about and chances are the packs have some charge when installed. You're trying to fix something that's not broken!
Only two weeks 'til Xmas! Gotta get stuff done so they can have the holidays off. Also a lot of deliveries so the companies can invoice and get paid this year!
20:18 Perhaps those are the steel erection and concrete contractors trailers being moved over to the Bobcat cathode area in prep for beginning construction. Clearing the current contractor parking makes sense, the near east side could be used for staging and distribution.
Listening to your commentary about the differently areas all showing increased activity, made me think of a shiny new super high tech steam engine generating the first puffs of steam, and the chuffing sound. And you can feel the glorious beast is waking up and coming alive. With ever increasing speed the sounds get closer together, leading the way to a better future for us all. Blow the whistle, and celebrate, the future is now. The best is yet to come.
At 4:00 upper right photo. Looks like white and cream colored steel beams. New small structure? Or are they for some small structure inside the main bldg? Where they're filling in the ponds and compacting. I guess it's the most expeditious way. But no sooner than they've filled it in, the Geopiers and work on footings will just dig it all up again. Kind of crazy. At 11:57 I think this is the first time I've seen a street sweeper on site, but the wet weather is just making it a mess. I noticed they're pressure testing the gas pipe. But it far south of the Gigapress furnaces. I'm guessing that the new gas pipe is not for the GF, but will go to the electric plant south of the river. Thanks, Joe. Great intro and video, and superb low level closeup views!
South pond area -- @ 5:59 Trench for drain pipe to be laid around the perimeter of the pond, including retaining wall. @ 11:11 (Bottom left) Location where perimeter drain will connect to pond overflow? @ 6:42 Perimeter drain around splitter box. Connects to two of the river outlet pipes.
David, your 5:59 appears that they are filling even with the wall, 5:43 top right, with good soil for plants. 11:11 could be or just flow back into the pond.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn David, I agree that water trapped behind the wall needs to be drained and they are laying a pipe. At water retainment level the base of the wall will be near the pond level as indicated by the level of the back overflow. The pipe could very easily be drained back to the pond or the overflow, same level.
Check out the white vehicle in the lower left corner of the frame at 19:00. There's a big red Tesla logo on the side. It looks like one of their mobile service trucks.
That's what the plans say. There is a little 500 foot extension going on. I'm trying not to believe it, till i see it, because I think it will spoil a beautiful simple building.
@@timboatfield Tim, yes I know and have a copy of the plans. Actually the 500' extension only indicated future impervious cover for calculations of pond size. Could be years or months, but now product needs to roll out the doors.
@@eltonray2934 Thank the heavens for that! I almost couldn't believe anyone would build a beautiful monolithic billion dollar plus building and then build a wart on to it. Any chance you can get a copy of those plans to Brian? Edit: (Ha I thought these were comments on MyTeslaWeekend) Sorry Joe. If you can get a copy to both Joe and Brian, that would be awesome.
Thankx Joe, as always.. Absolutely loved your Space-X tour!! Out of all the content I've seen, that one really gave me a sense of scale and perspective. Really nice work..... Oh. BTW, have you met Jeff R? Just curious...
Thanks for another great video Joe with all your insights on production! I wonder if the pond filling on the south end will become (at least temporarily) a parking lot?
Why can't they just build the cars in sequence for a given city and just load them on trucks as they are finished? Why do they need the expense of labor and space to 'park' cars?
Yet another great video, thanks Joe! I really appreciate the research you provide, as well as the views. I'm really surprised the plant on the W side is languishing, the need for V2 Starlink sats is becoming an issue. Any hints from your sources about the southern extension to the main facility?
Hey Joe, where and when will the next structure start to be built out? Seems surprising to me that there are not a group of workers who could be getting it started?
Where is the water coming from that going in the pit???..seems odd they at this point in the construction they would be trucking it....also, they have been bringing water to the pit for quite a long time so it couldn't be process water....thanks for the videos, Joe...
It's coming from the press, casting and paint areas. They all use a good bit of water and you can't just put it down the sewer drain. The press and casting areas mostly use it for cooling and clean up. The paint department uses it to not only clean up but as part of a water based air filtration system. In some video we have seen them dump fluids in various colors including on that was very white so they must have been painting white cars and the titanium oxide sure showed up. They have installed a large system to reclaim and clean this water but it's not running at full speed yet. Once it is, I'd expect this pond to go away. I don't see it on the long term plans. The large aerator is there to try and evaporate water. Since it's approaching winter they can't rely on the natural sun and wind to do it.
@@Bill_N_ATX William, The body of the car is cleaned with deionized water. The primer dip and color coat are waterborne paints, only the final clear coat is solvent based. They use the electrostatic spraying system so there is little paint in the air. Basecoat/clearcoat is being used by almost all auto manufacturers. Quiet a bit of wastewater is produced during color change and cleanup. Might see some color in the wastewater.
@@tk2x Actually I am only repeating what is shown on the Civil Drawings. South Pond - Wet Pond, East Pond - Bio Filtration Pond, Which by the way they are not wet now.
FSD 10.6 still waiting after having 98% score for two weeks now 12-11-2021. Does anyone know if Tesla is still rolling it out? We just returned from a 1,000 mile trip which would have been helpful as the home Orlando traffic is really heavy and many speeders!
18:30 At least, I know what that fountain head's for. It must've been nasty to install it. At least there's an ugly fountain to see for visitors... 😬😵💫
The device in the temporary evaporation pond is to aid in evaporation by increasing air to water contact. Not meant to be a showpiece and will be eliminated in the future. Anyone entering or leaving the production area is checked by security. Visitors, if any, will be in tightly controlled groups and be shown what Tesla wants them to see.
Yes, that would trigger depreciation expenses to start. That might impact taxes a bit, but not enough for them to care. It also impacts the quarterly earnings. I know my company avoided completing a building, and heard a rumor that in part it was to avoid the depreciation expenses hitting earnings, but I don't know if that was true. For Tesla, though, every day slowing down the ramp up of production is costly, so I don't think they'll delay anything.
The recent documents from the State of Texas said the builds were to be completed on 31Dec21. That way they'll start the year with new buildings. I think everyone's bean counters appreciate clean dates.
20:45 I love the fact that this tree is still standing here. A living memory of a not so far away past.
Me also; I have been watching that lonely tree for a year now just hoping that it makes the cut.
Those large trees are called heritage trees. Cutting one down is quite costly. Tens of thousands of dollars for the first one. Cut additional ones down and you won't get any future building permits. Before development was approved the city arborist walked the site, identified and tagged trees to be saved, and also calculated how many would have to be replaced. Austin takes its tree very serious. One of the few good parts about living in the People's Republic of Austin.
@@Bill_N_ATX God bless you, Austin!
I've always considered oak trees the state tree instead of pecan trees. Don't get me wrong, while I still love pecan trees, I've always considered the Texas Post Oak Tree the far more majestic one and fitting as the State tree.
@@texan-american200 You can throw a party in the shade of a big oak. But you can eat pecans!
Joe. Thanks for the detailed introduction.
6:00. South end. Pond perimeter beam. Trench and geo-fabric/membrane for a drain to intercept water that could otherwise build up behind the wall. No one likes a damp patch.
6:22. South end. Retaining wall. Likely a drain here as well behind the retaining wall.
6:44. Splitter box. Drain around the perimeter. Slotted/perforated pipe to capture what would be a damp location around an impervious surface (concrete roof of the splitter box). A ‘French Drain’ I gather from the comments, would be an aggy (agricultural) drain where I’m from.
7:30. South east corner GA. 2 corner wall panels on the ground. Been here for months.
8:38. Stamping extension. Great shot! Deep inside, the additional row of columns for the bridge crane beams in the High Bay area are visible. Think that might be the hard edge of a floor slab also. There’s an excavator in there as well, so almost guarantees a slab (to dig up).
10:06. East side easement. Bottom left. Gas line. The replacement pipe now connected, though not necessarily live. Same at north end near the temporary batching plant at 18:21.
12:02. West side GA. Large door opening between the loading docks likely to get a ramp at some point.
12:32. West side GA. Saw cut and busted out the slab and top of the perimeter grade beam. Start of a grand entrance.
16:49. North end. Battery/Plastics stud walls being constructed on 2 levels. Fire walls likely.
17:07. North end Paint, apron. Wide gap between the apron being used for pedestrian access and this about to be poured slab. Pedestrian access slab might be temporary only.
17:15. North end Casting, apron. Cutting the contraction joints with small wheeled demolition saws.
17:33. North end Casting. Electrical vaults. Broken out an opening on the building side. A connection to the drain also to keep the vault dry.
17:42. East side Casting, apron. Boxing/formwork for 2 narrow curbs/kerbs.
22:17. RTO roof. The green sheeting is the firewall between the RTO area and Battery. The squat red walls are timber, and I’m fairly certain are just a way to get the roof membrane joint up and out of the way being a joint at the roof surface.
22:23. RTO roof. Not sure why the big gap. Wide enough for another wall to project up through. Thinking the design not settled here.
We're partly French, here in Texas. I mean, really. The French flag did once fly over Texas. The French Legation is a minor tourist attraction. Anyway, if you don't have a French drain on your property, you don't own property.
@@LinasVepstas I hope one of the French viewers chimes in and tells us what a 'French Drain' is called in France.
Paging John Weiner!
@@DessieDoolan In French " *pierrée* " seems to be your English "French drain". It is built like "stone-ade" or "stone-way".
Just "drain" looks acceptably specific too, since the other forms of (English) drains have very different names.
Funnily, "drain" comes from English, and the "French" in french drain comes from the inventor, not the place.
Also, the English Wikipedia article mentions **14** synonyms!
@@musaran2 I had an idea there was a French connection with you, but couldn't find a reference that I was confident wouldn't cause me some embarrassment. I know John Weiner lives in Paris.
I have managed to embarrass myself before with this sort of thing, once asking someone who turned out to be Austrian, if he was from the Netherlands. His response not printable, and offensive to both my Dutch and German ancestry!
Thanks for the translation and the research, I wouldn't have thought to look in Wikipedia. I notice that the Australian term (agricultural drain) is prominently listed as the last synonym. A lawyer and Treasury Secretary inventing a drainage system, couldn't happen today.
I reckon English would have vacuumed up more French words, than French would have English words.
@@DessieDoolan Yup, French. I just don't mention it if not relevant to the discussion.
If confused for somewhere else, I would just be intrigued by the reason.
Note professionals might have specific names I don't know.
English is basically made up of borrowed words. :D
You misspoke, Joe. 'Wrapping into 2021...' You're human, after all! 😉👍
Fabulous update Joe. The readers detailed comments are much appreciated too!
Thanks yet again Joe. I look forward to these every day.
I thinking Tesla should be building a test track real soon, start cleaning the roads around the factory and the new Teslas
will be charging on the west side of the factory. Far as parking, maybe on the west side too. It will be an interesting next three weeks on what happens.
Brad
The factory will be putting out a model Y every 90 seconds. I don't see how they could charge over a thousand new EVs a day - there are just not enough chargers!
Fremont has a huge lot of new cars, staged in rows for loading onto big rigs. Hardly any chargers. I'm wondering where they're going to put a thousand new cars a day here at Giga Texas! And a year from now that number will double when the Cybertruck starts production.
@@acmefixer1 /they don't have to charge vehicles just have enough to move them about and chances are the packs have some charge when installed.
You're trying to fix something that's not broken!
Good low shots, gives a better perspective of the great activity.
Almost “done”. Definitely a push for year end. Getting chilly, so having full enclosure will be much appreciated by those working inside.
I live north of Austin, 82 F today.
Yes, it’s so chilly in Austin it’s in the low 80s.
Going to be cooler tomorrow with a low of 33 on Sunday morning. Then back to 80 by Tuesday. Gotta love Texas weather this time of year.
Only two weeks 'til Xmas! Gotta get stuff done so they can have the holidays off. Also a lot of deliveries so the companies can invoice and get paid this year!
20:18 Perhaps those are the steel erection and concrete contractors trailers being moved over to the Bobcat cathode area in prep for beginning construction.
Clearing the current contractor parking makes sense, the near east side could be used for staging and distribution.
Listening to your commentary about the differently areas all showing increased activity, made me think of a shiny new super high tech steam engine generating the first puffs of steam, and the chuffing sound.
And you can feel the glorious beast is waking up and coming alive.
With ever increasing speed the sounds get closer together, leading the way to a better future for us all.
Blow the whistle, and celebrate, the future is now.
The best is yet to come.
Definitely the best videos on Giga Texas!
At 4:00 upper right photo. Looks like white and cream colored steel beams. New small structure? Or are they for some small structure inside the main bldg?
Where they're filling in the ponds and compacting. I guess it's the most expeditious way. But no sooner than they've filled it in, the Geopiers and work on footings will just dig it all up again. Kind of crazy.
At 11:57 I think this is the first time I've seen a street sweeper on site, but the wet weather is just making it a mess.
I noticed they're pressure testing the gas pipe. But it far south of the Gigapress furnaces. I'm guessing that the new gas pipe is not for the GF, but will go to the electric plant south of the river.
Thanks, Joe. Great intro and video, and superb low level closeup views!
@ 15:26 Surprised that no one hit that stupid fire hydrant yet or bollards protecting it.
Definitely a bad position, right on the tight corner
Best updates of GigaTexas on the Interwebs, Joe!
Thx! 🤗
Excellent video that Joe
Thanks for the detailed update.
Looks like the dirt is going to wash off the roof pretty quickly now that the construction dust is mostly over.
Thanks Joe 😊😊😊
Nice meeting you today Joe. I enjoyed hearing your live commentary of recent updates in person.
South pond area --
@ 5:59 Trench for drain pipe to be laid around the perimeter of the pond, including retaining wall.
@ 11:11 (Bottom left) Location where perimeter drain will connect to pond overflow?
@ 6:42 Perimeter drain around splitter box. Connects to two of the river outlet pipes.
David, your 5:59 appears that they are filling even with the wall, 5:43 top right, with good soil for plants. 11:11 could be or just flow back into the pond.
@@eltonray2934 Elton, they are definitely laying a drain pipe. Brad Sloan's 12/09/2021 video shows better view at the 6:37 timestamp.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn David, I agree that water trapped behind the wall needs to be drained and they are laying a pipe. At water retainment level the base of the wall will be near the pond level as indicated by the level of the back overflow. The pipe could very easily be drained back to the pond or the overflow, same level.
@@eltonray2934 Elton, I get what you're saying. I initially misunderstood and thought you meant that they wouldn't be laying drain pipe :)
Thank you!
Check out the white vehicle in the lower left corner of the frame at 19:00. There's a big red Tesla logo on the side. It looks like one of their mobile service trucks.
The TESLA vehicles have been here from almost the start of construction.
Hey Joe, if you're reading this comment, new 4K footage of the Cybertruck being tested on Track is released in public.
Fantastic update today Joe! Thanks!!
That design changing you messaged about upon the roof that's where the building is showing out sinking I told you
Fantastic
Thank you Joe, magnific video, from Spain
Thanks for information today Joe, They are compacting the fill in the two ponds quiet a bit more than most filled areas. Future construction ?
That's what the plans say. There is a little 500 foot extension going on. I'm trying not to believe it, till i see it, because I think it will spoil a beautiful simple building.
@@timboatfield Tim, yes I know and have a copy of the plans. Actually the 500' extension only indicated future impervious cover for calculations of pond size. Could be years or months, but now product needs to roll out the doors.
@@eltonray2934 Thank the heavens for that! I almost couldn't believe anyone would build a beautiful monolithic billion dollar plus building and then build a wart on to it.
Any chance you can get a copy of those plans to Brian? Edit: (Ha I thought these were comments on MyTeslaWeekend) Sorry Joe. If you can get a copy to both Joe and Brian, that would be awesome.
@@timboatfield Got mine from Joe, Have about 25 years experience in heavy industry along Texas coast and several other states and countries.
@@eltonray2934 Good to have some experience about to help us understand at times what we're looking at.
Can’t wait to see how fast the North and south ends get closed up
Great work as always. One nomenclature feedback, BIW usually refers to the completed body before paint only. Cheers.
Ok … I’ll tell Tesla to rename the structure they are building as that is what they call it. 😎
11:57 Street sweeper in action. The mud cleanup has started.
Thank god, have been waiting for this 😁
11:58 Drain inlet on the left appears to be below the asphalt level, seeing as they had to dig a hole in the asphalt to expose it
Looks to me like a lot is still pending to be completed. EoY is very close
Thanks for all these dope videos
Thankx Joe, as always.. Absolutely loved your Space-X tour!! Out of all the content I've seen, that one really gave me a sense of scale and perspective. Really nice work..... Oh. BTW, have you met Jeff R? Just curious...
Jeff and I are friends and we talk daily. Glad you enjoyed my trip to SpaceX video!
21:26 Do you think they'll bridge that overflow from the sediment basin to the channel so that cars can drive that road that's cut in two now?
Probably not, most roads will be eliminated with the loop road handling traffic after construction is completed.
Thanks for another great video Joe with all your insights on production!
I wonder if the pond filling on the south end will become (at least temporarily) a parking lot?
Now hiring - mud cleanup truck driver for giga Texas pavement. Great vid Joe, Have a relaxing weekend.
The area at 19:15 is where I would put a mega pack.
Before production begins there needs to be a parking lot for the cars that are produced. My guess is still early 2022. But time will tell.
Won't need to be that big for awhile. PRobably only 2k total for the first 2 months.
Good point on there won’t be but a couple thousand cars total for a couple of months. Then when the ramp happens it will definitely be needed.
Why can't they just build the cars in sequence for a given city and just load them on trucks as they are finished? Why do they need the expense of labor and space to 'park' cars?
@@kkarllwt Logistics generally doesn't work out to be that simple.
Yet another great video, thanks Joe! I really appreciate the research you provide, as well as the views. I'm really surprised the plant on the W side is languishing, the need for V2 Starlink sats is becoming an issue. Any hints from your sources about the southern extension to the main facility?
Hey Joe, where and when will the next structure start to be built out? Seems surprising to me that there are not a group of workers who could be getting it started?
Merci👍👍👍
So this explains why I saw a drone onsite today
There are a few people who fly them
Did you wave to it?
Where is the water coming from that going in the pit???..seems odd they at this point in the construction they would be trucking it....also, they have been bringing water to the pit for quite a long time so it couldn't be process water....thanks for the videos, Joe...
It's coming from the press, casting and paint areas. They all use a good bit of water and you can't just put it down the sewer drain. The press and casting areas mostly use it for cooling and clean up. The paint department uses it to not only clean up but as part of a water based air filtration system. In some video we have seen them dump fluids in various colors including on that was very white so they must have been painting white cars and the titanium oxide sure showed up. They have installed a large system to reclaim and clean this water but it's not running at full speed yet. Once it is, I'd expect this pond to go away. I don't see it on the long term plans. The large aerator is there to try and evaporate water. Since it's approaching winter they can't rely on the natural sun and wind to do it.
@@Bill_N_ATX William, The body of the car is cleaned with deionized water. The primer dip and color coat are waterborne paints, only the final clear coat is solvent based. They use the electrostatic spraying system so there is little paint in the air. Basecoat/clearcoat is being used by almost all auto manufacturers. Quiet a bit of wastewater is produced during color change and cleanup. Might see some color in the wastewater.
*Dashboards shipped from Freemont by flatbeds, **_fully exposed to the elements?_*
The new pond is a CyberPond.
Technically a Wet Pond.
@@eltonray2934 Aren't all ponds wet?
@@tk2x Actually I am only repeating what is shown on the Civil Drawings. South Pond - Wet Pond, East Pond - Bio Filtration Pond, Which by the way they are not wet now.
1:59 TLDR is equal to TDLR
Les, a touch of dyslexia like me.
@@eltonray2934 I’m sorry, your comment was (TLDR) Too Long; Didn’t Read. 😂
*BETTER NEVER THAN LATE!* no doubt.
Are they planning to clean the roof of the main building after completion of construction?
There's little point... dust, pollen and other stuff will always accumulate on these flat roofs, to some degree at least.
FSD 10.6 still waiting after having 98% score for two weeks now 12-11-2021. Does anyone know if Tesla is still rolling it out? We just returned from a 1,000 mile trip which would have been helpful as the home Orlando traffic is really heavy and many speeders!
Do you have any idea where the Main Entrance/Lobby will be located?
West side at 12:22 looking promising.
@@DessieDoolan So the base of the giant T?
@@jimdetry9420 Yes I think so. In the middle of the most prominent architectural feature of the building. Visible from the road as well.
😎
18:30
At least, I know what that fountain head's for. It must've been nasty to install it. At least there's an ugly fountain to see for visitors... 😬😵💫
The device in the temporary evaporation pond is to aid in evaporation by increasing air to water contact. Not meant to be a showpiece and will be eliminated in the future. Anyone entering or leaving the production area is checked by security. Visitors, if any, will be in tightly controlled groups and be shown what Tesla wants them to see.
@@eltonray2934
I was actually being sarcastic when I said that. 😬 But thanks for the indepth details.
🥳🥳🥳🥳
i'm just guessing, but there may be financial reasons (i.e. taxes, etc.) to wait until Jan 1, 2022 to begin production.
Yes, that would trigger depreciation expenses to start. That might impact taxes a bit, but not enough for them to care. It also impacts the quarterly earnings. I know my company avoided completing a building, and heard a rumor that in part it was to avoid the depreciation expenses hitting earnings, but I don't know if that was true. For Tesla, though, every day slowing down the ramp up of production is costly, so I don't think they'll delay anything.
The recent documents from the State of Texas said the builds were to be completed on 31Dec21. That way they'll start the year with new buildings. I think everyone's bean counters appreciate clean dates.
The stampings may be for validation rather than production. At least at this time.
They’ve been doing that for months
New CT prototype spotted... that new passthrough looks pretty sweet
What is up with the random school busses?
i mean it's not like there are a crap ton of contractors going fromt he parking lot to the work site, so I can't imagine what they would be for ;)
@@michaelkaster5058 why would you use schoolbusses specifically? Not like there are shuttles or anything
@@dennisb7317 because they are easy to lease. Plenty of them around. They use them to move folks around at shift changes.
@@Bill_N_ATX And you can hose them out.
@@kkarllwt And sleep in them; at least that's what I recall from my days riding in them... ;-)
Let's go Texla! Embarrass the Germans for their stall tactics.