Joe, Thank you for including me in your video. I am the one in the safety vest and hardhat walking towards the camera by the tunnel in the inside of SX. Time Stamp 2:21 You put the yellow arrow over me. :). I sold them doors for the Data hall.
Thanks Joe! Tunnel entrance/exit: Inside the building: @ 2:21 Excellent view of the inside entrance! Thanks Joe! West side: @ 6:17, 6:20 and 6:33 Forms being built for retaining walls. @ 7:03 Newly paved roads to connect the tunnel to the EOL facility. Possible Megapack site: @ 24:05 Site is getting much bigger. Continuing to raise the grade. @ 24:22 (Bottom right) Two vaults that provide power to the Cathode building/Die Shop may end up inside the new site. Also @ 24:22 Joe.... If those transformers are used here there will be Megapacks. Transformers in this area would be of no use with out the Megapacks due to the low secondary (output) voltage of 480/277 volts. But... It does match the input/output voltage for the Megapacks which is 480 volts. Substation expansion project: @ 24:56 (Bottom right) Rebar cages for footings to support switch and busbar structures on the medium voltage (secondary) side of the transformer. Red square marked in the dirt is for a pad to support a medium voltage circuit breaker set. @ 25:14 Gravel spread around the new footings circuit breakers. Rooftop cable trays: Data center: @ 4:35 Cables in the tray to the right (only the cable tray on the right) going through the roof are energized and providing temporary power to the date center. Power comes from the existing main switchgear room below the roof in the casting/BIW area. North end: @ 21:55 and 22:14 Ongoing work to pull cable on the north end. 24 cables per tray, 48 total.
I know watching daily sometimes it’s hard to see changes. I just went back and watch videos from 1 year, 2 years, 3 years etc. it’s amazing to see that just over 4 years ago the site was basically a swamp. Thanks for all the videos Joe!!
Does Tesla not make giga castings when manufacturing cars? Would this be due to air “pollution”. Would the baghouse air filter allow them to make giga castings and car assembly at the same time?
The baghouse is primarily to filter flue gases from the 3 new furnaces. Existing furnaces have smaller baghouses inside the Casting building. The Casting building is almost sealed off from the rest of the factory. There are some large doors into BIW. The rooftop ducted fan units are used to draw fresh air into the building via the louvres on the east side (replaced some windows), and exhaust the air through filter units downstream of the fans. Those filters are changed often. In the video at 21:52 a couple of workers in white coveralls might be doing just that.
Tesla really needs a giant charger lot. Right off the highway. So you can see the factory, the other buildings, and maybe a snack bar with drinks. You really don't want people wandering around the factory, but hes got 3,000 acres, so he might as well put a charger lot there. Everyone knows the tesla supercharger horror stories on thanksgiving and christmas and any big holiday, so he should make a mega charger here. right off the highway.
@davidanalyst671 They probably will do, eventually. Arranging for a big charger install takes time, including the electrical provisions. They have been installing lots of electrical capacity already for the Coretex, and more needs to be done. The Christmas and Thanksgiving is about long distance travel, that is *between* cities.
Thanks Joe *Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible* 1:41. Westside, Tunnel Project. Curved retaining wall formwork for the entry ramp. Slightly narrower than the tunnel diameter, but only needs to be the tunnel road surface width. 4 bored shafts, 2 either side of the tunnel for some sort of canopy. Shaft is very close to the NG pipeline. 6’ to 8’ 1.8m to 2.4m. Centre left, rebar cages and yellow form tubes for the shafts. Right. 8 more bored shafts in the same configuration as those bottom right. Relocating perhaps. 2:05. W-WOW yard. Reclaiming the Tunnel Project site. Quite an elevation/grade difference. 3:26. Temporary switchyard site. Earthworks now extend south of the old site. This area is natural soil, was never strip mined. May only require compacted fill. Fill being extracted from the right. 9:24. Westside, storage north. Stacks of flat plate in amongst the steel. 13:06. Flagpoles. White base covers never got installed. Must have been satisfied with the concrete finish. Blue surveyors flags in amongst the Cybertrucks. More digging. 13:37. GA, loading platform. Delivery of floor decking. 14:00. Southend, west. 8000gal. grease trap installed for the second time. See Joe’s 9 August video at 4.02. 16:11. Southend, east diagonal corner. Level 1. Installed the glazing channels on the retaining wall. Level 2 perimeter beam. Welding on the brackets for the glazing channel. 18:32. Cyber Circle, pipeline works. Replacement pipe section connected at south (18:01) and north (top right). Loading up the hot-tapping gear on a trailer. 18:50. Southend, east. Under the mezzanine is a road entrance. Arrow pointing westwards. Likely the other end of the road at 13:51. Likely used for general access through the building, including to Stamping 2. 20:33. East Main Entrance. Bottom left. HVAC system removed (the orange ducting). Stacks of circular components on the loading dock ramp. 20:50. Casting, east. Apron. Bottom left. Orange over-width trailer. Might be the one seen at the Die Shop in Joe’s 13 Nov video at 27.43. Likely method of transport dies back and forth to the Die Shop. 21:03. Casting, east. Canopy. Red and black rail mounted framework, no apparent advance. Lots of hydraulic/air lines visible in Joe’s photos. Furnace charging machine likely. Silver/grey components on the apron may be the charging bins to be assembled on the red and black frame. 22:03. Casting roof. Furnace gases visible from the flue. 23:45. BESS site. Bottom left. Small trailer with the Saber Power logo. I can’t access the website, been geo-blocked. Likely the switchyard/substation contractor. Another trailer at 25:24. ‘Engineering-led & construction-focused professional services company specializing in complex medium & high voltage electrical infrastructure.’ 26:36. Crash Test Track. Semi wheels/tyres have been removed. 27:42. Cathode, west. Plant platform. North of. Stormwater drainage works. Installing a catch basin/pit for the tank overflows. 28:41. Die Shop, west. Left. Blue tarp was previously covering a trailer. See 20:50.
@@Gig0Surf I've considered a VPN. I don't feel tech savvy enough to be confident about installing it. I was able to get around the geo-blocking by looking at their linkedin page. Pretty sure they are the switchyard/substation contractor. Last time I was geo-blocked with a company associated with this project was the rubbish disposal company.
@@DessieDoolan Yes they appear to provide power related engineering, construction, maintenance and field services for utilities, bess/renewables, industrial/commercial, etc... Their engineering covers Electrical substation, industrial power system, transmission and distribution line experts
@@Gig0Surf Fairly certain the trailer by the control building at 25:24 is one of theirs also. Same typeface on the logo. The company name seems familiar, but no mention in the database. Don't know where I would have seen it other than here.
23:45 Since the company does both substation and BESS engineering work... Just curious if the new site could be for a new substation to tap the west transmission line circuit seen here @ 23:58 (Left) Currently, they are using only the east transmission line circuit to power everything. By 'west' I mean the west circuit on the west towers.
Hi Joe, Thank you for your Video. The tunnel, will this be for one way traffic or both way. In case it is both way a signalling system should be installed.
@TashiRogo The tunnel is circular, you can't use the total width anyway. The available width should be pretty much the same as the width of the floor inside the tunnel.
12' tunnel, if I remember correctly.... 8.5' road width. Which is why I've been saying that these tunnels aren't much use for anything other than what they have here or perhaps a perdition path. Definitely NOT useful for an actual road anywhere else.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Road width scales to 10'6" 3.2m based on a tunnel internal diameter of 12' 3.6m. Brad's 9 Nov video at 7.51 is near perfect to measure this. Sectional elevation shown in Joe's 27 September video states 9'4" 2.84m. That drawing I think from the river tunnel project.
I’ve discussed this on several videos … this tunnel was a test for a variety of things and the Boring Company told me they were able to do this with a relaxed timetable. The road lanes breaking was a setback that has now been rectified. The lessons they got were important for Prufrock- 3 and Prufrock-4 TBM development.
@@JoeTegtmeyer Thanks for your direct reply. I'm sure I missed the specific mention you called out. Good to know that the claimed timeline is not what they were actually striving for in this instance, but they used it as a learning experience for future tunnels.
500 not volts, kilowatts and there is no info that Cybertruck can take up to that yet still should be max 350, which still will be better than 250 on older chargers
Tesla's V4 video showed the Cybertruck charging at 500 kW but I wouldn't be surprised if that's only possible if you have the range extender installed. I only remember the Cybertruck hitting 327 kW with 800V charging but perhaps that's improved with more recent updates?
"Coffer-dam' is the name of the blue temporary box structure at the alternate exit point next to the tunnel, time stamp, 14:00. It provide protection again cave-ins when working in an excavated trench.
I think the correct term is a trench box. Trench Box: Primarily used for safety in construction, especially in trenching operations. It prevents the walls of a trench from collapsing, thus protecting workers from cave-ins. Cofferdam: A cofferdam is engineered to create a dry work environment in areas that are normally submerged, like rivers, lakes, or seas. It's used to exclude water from a construction area so that work can proceed in the dry.
Don't they lightning in Texas. The MegaPacks are stacked very close together, they had better have Super Good Fire Immunity. I can see this entire pack going up in a flaming conflagration sometime in the future.
Man, if the "government" tried to do this, it would take them 30+years. Absolutely incredible. Whoever is guiding this, needs to replace the entire Federal Government.
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Joe, Thank you for including me in your video. I am the one in the safety vest and hardhat walking towards the camera by the tunnel in the inside of SX. Time Stamp 2:21 You put the yellow arrow over me. :). I sold them doors for the Data hall.
@@kendiener9465 👍😎 sorry about the arrow 😎
Thanks Joe!
Tunnel entrance/exit:
Inside the building:
@ 2:21 Excellent view of the inside entrance! Thanks Joe!
West side:
@ 6:17, 6:20 and 6:33 Forms being built for retaining walls.
@ 7:03 Newly paved roads to connect the tunnel to the EOL facility.
Possible Megapack site:
@ 24:05 Site is getting much bigger. Continuing to raise the grade.
@ 24:22 (Bottom right) Two vaults that provide power to the Cathode building/Die Shop may end up inside the new site.
Also @ 24:22 Joe.... If those transformers are used here there will be Megapacks. Transformers in this area would be of no use with out the Megapacks due to the low secondary (output) voltage of 480/277 volts. But... It does match the input/output voltage for the Megapacks which is 480 volts.
Substation expansion project:
@ 24:56 (Bottom right) Rebar cages for footings to support switch and busbar structures on the medium voltage (secondary) side of the transformer.
Red square marked in the dirt is for a pad to support a medium voltage circuit breaker set.
@ 25:14 Gravel spread around the new footings circuit breakers.
Rooftop cable trays:
Data center:
@ 4:35 Cables in the tray to the right (only the cable tray on the right) going through the roof are energized and providing temporary power to the date center. Power comes from the existing main switchgear room below the roof in the casting/BIW area.
North end:
@ 21:55 and 22:14 Ongoing work to pull cable on the north end. 24 cables per tray, 48 total.
I know watching daily sometimes it’s hard to see changes. I just went back and watch videos from 1 year, 2 years, 3 years etc. it’s amazing to see that just over 4 years ago the site was basically a swamp.
Thanks for all the videos Joe!!
An impressive achievement!
Thanks Joe, have fun at Starbase.
Have a great trip!
@@PCMenten thx
Hey Joe, Have fun at the launch, can't wait to see the coverage.
@@nanaimoshoerepair 👍🚀
Thanks for completing my week, Joe! See you in a couple of days!
@@bimmergeezer 👍🚀
The pavement markings are for semi trucks to enter and exit thru the extension so thet they can unload steel coils in the stamping area,
@@ohtoah 😂😂
Thanks Joe! Have a great trip down! Can't wait for Starship launch Monday! Hopefully TS Sara will continue moving slow and not interfere.
@@accumapmodels thx and I’m watching the weather too … would not be surprised to see a slip to Tuesday
@@JoeTegtmeyer I'm hoping for Tuesday. I'm taking my wife out for a birthday dinner Monday.
@ you got your wish! Launch is officially Tuesday, 19 Nov!
@@JoeTegtmeyer Thanks Joe
good job
The purple pipe is for non-potable water, normally reclaimed
@@awsdfsdgf34 irrigation
Merci👍👍👍
Looking forwards to the concrete panels painted white and pavement and grass growing!
Holyeee Smoke, hey there is a hole under the highway.
Does Tesla not make giga castings when manufacturing cars? Would this be due to air “pollution”. Would the baghouse air filter allow them to make giga castings and car assembly at the same time?
The baghouse is primarily to filter flue gases from the 3 new furnaces.
Existing furnaces have smaller baghouses inside the Casting building.
The Casting building is almost sealed off from the rest of the factory. There are some large doors into BIW.
The rooftop ducted fan units are used to draw fresh air into the building via the louvres on the east side (replaced some windows), and exhaust the air through filter units downstream of the fans.
Those filters are changed often. In the video at 21:52 a couple of workers in white coveralls might be doing just that.
Tesla really needs a giant charger lot. Right off the highway. So you can see the factory, the other buildings, and maybe a snack bar with drinks. You really don't want people wandering around the factory, but hes got 3,000 acres, so he might as well put a charger lot there. Everyone knows the tesla supercharger horror stories on thanksgiving and christmas and any big holiday, so he should make a mega charger here. right off the highway.
@davidanalyst671 They probably will do, eventually. Arranging for a big charger install takes time, including the electrical provisions. They have been installing lots of electrical capacity already for the Coretex, and more needs to be done. The Christmas and Thanksgiving is about long distance travel, that is *between* cities.
Thanks Joe
*Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible*
1:41. Westside, Tunnel Project. Curved retaining wall formwork for the entry ramp. Slightly narrower than the tunnel diameter, but only needs to be the tunnel road surface width.
4 bored shafts, 2 either side of the tunnel for some sort of canopy. Shaft is very close to the NG pipeline. 6’ to 8’ 1.8m to 2.4m. Centre left, rebar cages and yellow form tubes for the shafts.
Right. 8 more bored shafts in the same configuration as those bottom right. Relocating perhaps.
2:05. W-WOW yard. Reclaiming the Tunnel Project site. Quite an elevation/grade difference.
3:26. Temporary switchyard site. Earthworks now extend south of the old site. This area is natural soil, was never strip mined. May only require compacted fill. Fill being extracted from the right.
9:24. Westside, storage north. Stacks of flat plate in amongst the steel.
13:06. Flagpoles. White base covers never got installed. Must have been satisfied with the concrete finish.
Blue surveyors flags in amongst the Cybertrucks. More digging.
13:37. GA, loading platform. Delivery of floor decking.
14:00. Southend, west. 8000gal. grease trap installed for the second time. See Joe’s 9 August video at 4.02.
16:11. Southend, east diagonal corner. Level 1. Installed the glazing channels on the retaining wall.
Level 2 perimeter beam. Welding on the brackets for the glazing channel.
18:32. Cyber Circle, pipeline works. Replacement pipe section connected at south (18:01) and north (top right).
Loading up the hot-tapping gear on a trailer.
18:50. Southend, east. Under the mezzanine is a road entrance. Arrow pointing westwards. Likely the other end of the road at 13:51. Likely used for general access through the building, including to Stamping 2.
20:33. East Main Entrance. Bottom left. HVAC system removed (the orange ducting). Stacks of circular components on the loading dock ramp.
20:50. Casting, east. Apron. Bottom left. Orange over-width trailer. Might be the one seen at the Die Shop in Joe’s 13 Nov video at 27.43. Likely method of transport dies back and forth to the Die Shop.
21:03. Casting, east. Canopy. Red and black rail mounted framework, no apparent advance. Lots of hydraulic/air lines visible in Joe’s photos.
Furnace charging machine likely.
Silver/grey components on the apron may be the charging bins to be assembled on the red and black frame.
22:03. Casting roof. Furnace gases visible from the flue.
23:45. BESS site. Bottom left. Small trailer with the Saber Power logo. I can’t access the website, been geo-blocked. Likely the switchyard/substation contractor. Another trailer at 25:24.
‘Engineering-led & construction-focused professional services company specializing in complex medium & high voltage electrical infrastructure.’
26:36. Crash Test Track. Semi wheels/tyres have been removed.
27:42. Cathode, west. Plant platform. North of. Stormwater drainage works. Installing a catch basin/pit for the tank overflows.
28:41. Die Shop, west. Left. Blue tarp was previously covering a trailer. See 20:50.
Perhaps try opera browser, it has free VPN built in which might get your around geo-blocked sites
@@Gig0Surf I've considered a VPN. I don't feel tech savvy enough to be confident about installing it.
I was able to get around the geo-blocking by looking at their linkedin page. Pretty sure they are the switchyard/substation contractor.
Last time I was geo-blocked with a company associated with this project was the rubbish disposal company.
@@DessieDoolan Yes they appear to provide power related engineering, construction, maintenance and field services for utilities, bess/renewables, industrial/commercial, etc... Their engineering covers Electrical substation, industrial power system, transmission and distribution line experts
@@Gig0Surf Fairly certain the trailer by the control building at 25:24 is one of theirs also. Same typeface on the logo.
The company name seems familiar, but no mention in the database. Don't know where I would have seen it other than here.
23:45 Since the company does both substation and BESS engineering work... Just curious if the new site could be for a new substation to tap the west transmission line circuit seen here @ 23:58 (Left) Currently, they are using only the east transmission line circuit to power everything. By 'west' I mean the west circuit on the west towers.
Hi Joe, Thank you for your Video. The tunnel, will this be for one way traffic or both way. In case it is both way a signalling system should be installed.
Why are the concrete forms chopping off over a foot of width at the tunnel exit? Am I not understanding what they are doing there?
@TashiRogo The tunnel is circular, you can't use the total width anyway. The available width should be pretty much the same as the width of the floor inside the tunnel.
12' tunnel, if I remember correctly.... 8.5' road width. Which is why I've been saying that these tunnels aren't much use for anything other than what they have here or perhaps a perdition path. Definitely NOT useful for an actual road anywhere else.
@@grahammonk8013 but the car is larger at this height with mirrors
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Road width scales to 10'6" 3.2m based on a tunnel internal diameter of 12' 3.6m. Brad's 9 Nov video at 7.51 is near perfect to measure this.
Sectional elevation shown in Joe's 27 September video states 9'4" 2.84m. That drawing I think from the river tunnel project.
Kinda crazy that the boring tunnel, which is supposed to be quick operation, we are sitting around 10 months or so of working on that tunnel.
I’ve discussed this on several videos … this tunnel was a test for a variety of things and the Boring Company told me they were able to do this with a relaxed timetable. The road lanes breaking was a setback that has now been rectified. The lessons they got were important for Prufrock- 3 and Prufrock-4 TBM development.
@@JoeTegtmeyer Thanks for your direct reply. I'm sure I missed the specific mention you called out. Good to know that the claimed timeline is not what they were actually striving for in this instance, but they used it as a learning experience for future tunnels.
@ you can go to my playlists for the Boring Company and watch Part 1&2 of my Boring Company tour and deep dive videos I put out in April
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500 not volts, kilowatts and there is no info that Cybertruck can take up to that yet still should be max 350, which still will be better than 250 on older chargers
Tesla's V4 video showed the Cybertruck charging at 500 kW but I wouldn't be surprised if that's only possible if you have the range extender installed. I only remember the Cybertruck hitting 327 kW with 800V charging but perhaps that's improved with more recent updates?
I'd expect that it will be able to, since I understand per the Munro Live tear down that the battery pack is split into 400V halves.
Hey Joe I see you have a new model 3, have you mentioned this in depth in a prior video? Could you link to it for me please?
Don´t they use the new 500kW Supercharger?
"Coffer-dam' is the name of the blue temporary box structure at the alternate exit point next to the tunnel, time stamp, 14:00. It provide protection again cave-ins when working in an excavated trench.
I think the correct term is a trench box.
Trench Box: Primarily used for safety in construction, especially in trenching operations. It prevents the walls of a trench from collapsing, thus protecting workers from cave-ins.
Cofferdam: A cofferdam is engineered to create a dry work environment in areas that are normally submerged, like rivers, lakes, or seas. It's used to exclude water from a construction area so that work can proceed in the dry.
Don't they lightning in Texas. The MegaPacks are stacked very close together, they had better have Super Good Fire Immunity. I can see this entire pack going up in a flaming conflagration sometime in the future.
@@brunonikodemski2420 I don’t follow your concerns.
If they have FSD driving the car through the tunnel, there’s really no reason I have to go fast. 5 to 10 mph would be fine.
How many miles of wire could have been saved if the computer centre been installed on the north end of the factory?
About 48 miles of cable. 48 cables at a distance of about one mile (estimate).
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Who installed the roof ?
Too much water puddling. They didn’t taper the rigid insulation correctly.
That type of roof is designed to hold some water, it is free cooling, energy saving.
Man, if the "government" tried to do this, it would take them 30+years. Absolutely incredible. Whoever is guiding this, needs to replace the entire Federal Government.
Hmmmmm.
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