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Thank you, Brad. This is one of your best videos! Really good views and perspectives of so much rapid change, not only at the factory, east and west, but all over the entire place. It will be very interesting to see what happens in the the new rectangular clearings, especially the ones on the south side of the river near the power plants. Most surprising to me is the new work/modification of the tunnel exit point.
Thanks Brad 0:51. Southend, west. Apron. Base of grease trap installed in the blue trench shield. Black upper sections to the right. 1:51. Southend, south. West Fire Escape Passage. Staging, formwork decking, and rebar. Ready for concrete. Applying a bituminous sealer to the wall of the passage. 6:45. South of the river. Irregular shaped site. Looks like site access and storage for a project, rather than a project. 7:13. Westside, storage. 52 transformers. Much bigger BESS installation than the existing, if indeed these are for that purpose. 9:34. Westside, Tunnel Project. Portal. Removing the top tunnel liner segments. Might be replacing these. Some segments still on site. 13:36. Tesla Road, north. Westside. Clearing for a new site. Silt fence installed. 13:47. Tesla Road, south. Westside. Same again. 14:49. Tesla Road, south. Westside. Trenching for the silt fence. 16:14. Casting, east. Formwork boxing for the central slab. Bottom, leftish. Black steel plates, embedments perhaps. 17:35. Tesla Road, north. Vaults. Silt trap* in the bottom of each. 17:55. Tesla Road, north. Ductbanks intersection. Fixing an angle around the inside of the enclosure, close to the top. For a metal deck perhaps. *YLTMV (Your Local Terminology May Vary).
casting-East: Could it be that they are building an "outside" casting-machine plate ? (Think unboxed car-assembly for the Nextgen Vehicle). It could very well eb that the "new" machine would be to big to fit in the current casting-machine places and that Tesla wants to reserve the internal Casting-spaces for machines of the same type (6000 / 9000 ton variants).
@@stevenhamerlinck6832 I'm confident what we will see here is a pair of traveling gantry cranes for shifting things in a out of Casting. Dies etc. Very similar system at the end of the the Die Shop, seen in Joe's 23 June video at 29.57. What's going on with the line of columns, I'm only guessing. Thinking a wall mounted traveling gantry crane here. From googling, there's a type of traveling gantry that is wall mounted on one side and A frame mounted away from the wall. Thinking the steel plates might be embedments for the A frame wheel to track up and back on. Proper guessing there. Casting machine base. Interestingly the 9000t machines were mounted directly to the concrete floor. The 6000t machines were mounted on a steel frame cast into the floor.
@@mini2nut67 You're welcome! Narration is a bit of a double edged sword, for the narrator at least, as Joe would likely attest. I'm happy to watch whatever is on offer.
What's wild is the cyber truck is only priced a little more then the currently outrageously priced stock off the lot; ford, Chevy, and dodge trucks. And a lot of them cost more than the cyber truck!
Unfortunately for all of the manufacturers, even though people may want $100k trucks, not many can actually afford to buy them. All dealer lots are filled with those expensive trucks, but they can’t sell many of them.Tesla’s site is now promising delivery of the foundation series by the end of next month, and the other models by the end of the year, so many of the million reservations may have evaporated. Perhaps many of them were only willing to buy the cheaper version.
I thought Sawyer made an X post about the cybertruck, Tesla is still selling the foundation series and will continue as long as they can to keep margins up as these are the most expensive to build due to the ramp up. When the other versions come into production for a lower prices they will open it up to reservation holders first so they want to end the increase in reservations because they already have 1M reservations or something for the cheaper versions. When demand slow from current reservation holders the 40K cybertruck version will come back but maybe at a other price by then.
Thanks Brad! Tunnel project: @ 9:34 Beginning demolition of the tunnel or at least the tunnel entrance. @ 9:04 Flatbed truck ready to pick up more defective precast road segments. New power supply to the building: @ 17:29 Cables now being pulled through the duct-bank over to the Mega-vault. Notice that only 8 out the 12 available cable ducts are being used. Which leaves room for future expansion. @ 17:35 Another clear close up view into two more vaults. A very clear view where you can see that only 8 out of the 12 available cable ducts are being used. @ 17:43 A view into the next two vaults. An easy way to count the cables is to count the green ground wires. Three large cables for each ground wire. 8 ground wires = 24 cables (8 three phase circuits) per duct-bank. Again, these duct-banks can hold 12 three phase circuits each. @ 17:51 A good closeup view down into the new structure at the duct-bank intersection/crossover. Where it appears that they trimmed down the 12 conduits entering the lower left of the structure.
@@lylestavast7652 If you mean the areas @ 13:37, 13:47, and 6:46 to early to speculate. If I had to make a guess right now, material storage areas? I know there has been speculation that they may build a Megapack installation @ 6:46 But the power plant and at least one of those two substations @ 6:29 are owned by Austin Energy. Unless Tesla has a contract to build a Megapack facility for them? These are definitely areas to watch.
Randomly speculating here: 52 white transformers are currently sitting in the west side storage lot at 7:14 and people are wondering if there might be a new megapack facility soon to be built. Could it be possible the construction work seen at at 6:08 might develop into another megapack site?
My guess is that the Megapack will service the Peak loads and UPS needs of the Computer Center being built in the new extension...so the logical spot would be on the now bare field at 2:57 .
Sand Hill power plant Lateral extension: @ 6:46 Here is possibly what is happening. There is a permit for a gas pipeline..... 2024-097976 EV Sand Hill Lateral Extension The applicant is proposing underground, natural gas line along with associated improvements. Line will run from AE Substation on Fallwell to the west side of 130 then north along the ROW to just north of Tesla Road. There will be a few valve stations along the route.
@@rtz549 If it's powerline or pipe related, they might want staging and assembly areas for materials, room for equipment as well as vehicle access. I was thinking perhaps they were going to assemble a long pipe, then with directional drilling pull it under the highway... but perhaps it's power distribution lines!? [I haven't researched it]
@@Gig0Surf A little like the purple pipe that was pulled under the river. There was an assumption it was associated with GT, yet was works in easements only and there never was a connection made to GT. This project likely the same.
@@DessieDoolan Was there no connection to Giga Texas? I thought all the irrigation pipes for GT were purple. Regardless, getting recycled water out to residential areas is good as well.
Foundation series is slowly loosing value....now as low as $107,000.....there are now a lot of used ones on the market....and there's not much of a waiting line anymore....so probably in 6 mos. you'll start seeing Cyber trucks for $79,900 so it can use the tax credit. Those who bought Foundation series will be severely underwater if they still haven't flipped it by then.
Probably in preparation to build the tunnel exit. But it is unusual that they previously laid piping, conduit, and precast road segments right up to the end of the area they are now demolishing.
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50% inflation since Cybertruck reservations opened. and Tesla is only selling the most expensive versions first to cover their start-up costs
Thank you, Brad. This is one of your best videos! Really good views and perspectives of so much rapid change, not only at the factory, east and west, but all over the entire place. It will be very interesting to see what happens in the the new rectangular clearings, especially the ones on the south side of the river near the power plants. Most surprising to me is the new work/modification of the tunnel exit point.
Thank you!
Thanks Brad
0:51. Southend, west. Apron. Base of grease trap installed in the blue trench shield. Black upper sections to the right.
1:51. Southend, south. West Fire Escape Passage. Staging, formwork decking, and rebar. Ready for concrete.
Applying a bituminous sealer to the wall of the passage.
6:45. South of the river. Irregular shaped site. Looks like site access and storage for a project, rather than a project.
7:13. Westside, storage. 52 transformers. Much bigger BESS installation than the existing, if indeed these are for that purpose.
9:34. Westside, Tunnel Project. Portal. Removing the top tunnel liner segments. Might be replacing these. Some segments still on site.
13:36. Tesla Road, north. Westside. Clearing for a new site. Silt fence installed.
13:47. Tesla Road, south. Westside. Same again.
14:49. Tesla Road, south. Westside. Trenching for the silt fence.
16:14. Casting, east. Formwork boxing for the central slab. Bottom, leftish. Black steel plates, embedments perhaps.
17:35. Tesla Road, north. Vaults. Silt trap* in the bottom of each.
17:55. Tesla Road, north. Ductbanks intersection. Fixing an angle around the inside of the enclosure, close to the top. For a metal deck perhaps.
*YLTMV (Your Local Terminology May Vary).
casting-East: Could it be that they are building an "outside" casting-machine plate ? (Think unboxed car-assembly for the Nextgen Vehicle). It could very well eb that the "new" machine would be to big to fit in the current casting-machine places and that Tesla wants to reserve the internal Casting-spaces for machines of the same type (6000 / 9000 ton variants).
@@stevenhamerlinck6832 I'm confident what we will see here is a pair of traveling gantry cranes for shifting things in a out of Casting. Dies etc.
Very similar system at the end of the the Die Shop, seen in Joe's 23 June video at 29.57.
What's going on with the line of columns, I'm only guessing. Thinking a wall mounted traveling gantry crane here.
From googling, there's a type of traveling gantry that is wall mounted on one side and A frame mounted away from the wall. Thinking the steel plates might be embedments for the A frame wheel to track up and back on.
Proper guessing there.
Casting machine base. Interestingly the 9000t machines were mounted directly to the concrete floor. The 6000t machines were mounted on a steel frame cast into the floor.
Love your construction comments. You should be narrating his videos.
@@mini2nut67 You're welcome! Narration is a bit of a double edged sword, for the narrator at least, as Joe would likely attest. I'm happy to watch whatever is on offer.
What's wild is the cyber truck is only priced a little more then the currently outrageously priced stock off the lot; ford, Chevy, and dodge trucks. And a lot of them cost more than the cyber truck!
Unfortunately for all of the manufacturers, even though people may want $100k trucks, not many can actually afford to buy them. All dealer lots are filled with those expensive trucks, but they can’t sell many of them.Tesla’s site is now promising delivery of the foundation series by the end of next month, and the other models by the end of the year, so many of the million reservations may have evaporated. Perhaps many of them were only willing to buy the cheaper version.
Thanks Brad
I thought Sawyer made an X post about the cybertruck, Tesla is still selling the foundation series and will continue as long as they can to keep margins up as these are the most expensive to build due to the ramp up. When the other versions come into production for a lower prices they will open it up to reservation holders first so they want to end the increase in reservations because they already have 1M reservations or something for the cheaper versions. When demand slow from current reservation holders the 40K cybertruck version will come back but maybe at a other price by then.
nice flight
Great job
Merci👍👍👍
Thanks Brad!
Tunnel project:
@ 9:34 Beginning demolition of the tunnel or at least the tunnel entrance.
@ 9:04 Flatbed truck ready to pick up more defective precast road segments.
New power supply to the building:
@ 17:29 Cables now being pulled through the duct-bank over to the Mega-vault. Notice that only 8 out the 12 available cable ducts are being used. Which leaves room for future expansion.
@ 17:35 Another clear close up view into two more vaults. A very clear view where you can see that only 8 out of the 12 available cable ducts are being used.
@ 17:43 A view into the next two vaults. An easy way to count the cables is to count the green ground wires. Three large cables for each ground wire. 8 ground wires = 24 cables (8 three phase circuits) per duct-bank. Again, these duct-banks can hold 12 three phase circuits each.
@ 17:51 A good closeup view down into the new structure at the duct-bank intersection/crossover. Where it appears that they trimmed down the 12 conduits entering the lower left of the structure.
any idea what the newly carved out open soil areas in previously green areas are being prepped for ?
@@lylestavast7652 If you mean the areas @ 13:37, 13:47, and 6:46 to early to speculate. If I had to make a guess right now, material storage areas?
I know there has been speculation that they may build a Megapack installation @ 6:46 But the power plant and at least one of those two substations @ 6:29 are owned by Austin Energy. Unless Tesla has a contract to build a Megapack facility for them? These are definitely areas to watch.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn A few months ago Austin Energy issued an RFP for renewable resources, which includes BESS among others. Perhaps related to that.
@@sammyk874 Thanks for the information! That is possible. 6:46 will be an area to watch.
That flatbed had just delivered new road segments.
Randomly speculating here: 52 white transformers are currently sitting in the west side storage lot at 7:14 and people are wondering if there might be a new megapack facility soon to be built. Could it be possible the construction work seen at at 6:08 might develop into another megapack site?
But where would it connect to, draw from? Better to expand the existing BESS if they wanted to because it's already connected to the grid.
It could connect to power station just east of graded site seen at 6:08 and not for the sole use of Tesla
My guess is that the Megapack will service the Peak loads and UPS needs of the Computer Center being built in the new extension...so the logical spot would be on the now bare field at 2:57 .
@@shazam6274 Yep. It'll be used/ put to good use rather than be an idle backup. IMO
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Thanks!
Sand Hill power plant Lateral extension:
@ 6:46 Here is possibly what is happening. There is a permit for a gas pipeline.....
2024-097976 EV
Sand Hill Lateral Extension
The applicant is proposing underground, natural gas line along with associated improvements. Line will run from AE Substation on Fallwell to the west side of 130 then north along the ROW to just north of Tesla Road. There will be a few valve stations along the route.
Great video Brad. You seem to discover areas of new activity.
Will this be a new construction site? Optimus?
They will get cheaper but c'mon... you really think they were going to be less than 40 grand?
maybe in 2018 Dollars! :)
At 13:34; those 2 areas in weird shapes along with the one by the power plant. Solar panels or mega packs?
From the shape I would not think solar panels.
FYI: The single motor Cybertruck was scheduled to begin shipping in 2025.
I don't always trust Tesla achieve all of their timelines.
@@jbbuzzable Yeah, like everybody else they're never early. But the head lines are about today in August of '24 !
Thanks Brad! Looks like maybe there is more to the south of the river project on the west side of the highway.
Why is the ground being worked in such an odd shape?
@@rtz549 If it's powerline or pipe related, they might want staging and assembly areas for materials, room for equipment as well as vehicle access.
I was thinking perhaps they were going to assemble a long pipe, then with directional drilling pull it under the highway... but perhaps it's power distribution lines!? [I haven't researched it]
Looking at the Austin GIS, there is a water line easement for that area crossing the highway, so this is likely it.
@@Gig0Surf A little like the purple pipe that was pulled under the river. There was an assumption it was associated with GT, yet was works in easements only and there never was a connection made to GT.
This project likely the same.
@@DessieDoolan Was there no connection to Giga Texas? I thought all the irrigation pipes for GT were purple. Regardless, getting recycled water out to residential areas is good as well.
Foundation series is slowly loosing value....now as low as $107,000.....there are now a lot of used ones on the market....and there's not much of a waiting line anymore....so probably in 6 mos. you'll start seeing Cyber trucks for $79,900 so it can use the tax credit. Those who bought Foundation series will be severely underwater if they still haven't flipped it by then.
Thats a heck of a crystal ball you got. I paid 101k for mine 6 months ago and its still worth that. I have zero plans to sell it. Its amazing.
Are they disassembling the boring tunnel? That's a massive waste of time.
I believe that they're shaping it to fit into the exit structure.
I'll bet you a dollar that they aren't disassembling the tunnel.
Probably in preparation to build the tunnel exit. But it is unusual that they previously laid piping, conduit, and precast road segments right up to the end of the area they are now demolishing.