"Lot Full Of Castings" Tesla Gigafactory Texas 12/5/2024 10:38 AM

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@BTSflyer Ай бұрын

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@DessieDoolan Ай бұрын

Thanks Brad. *Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible* 0:56. GA, apron. Left. Delivery of steel. Delivery on Tesla Road at 10:42. To the north of the loading platform, what looks like battery packs. 3:58. Southend, Level 1. Tank farm. Some stainless steel pipework laid out on the floor. 4:11. Southend, Cooling Tower. Water raining down into the cold water basin after flowing through the ‘fills’. Fills the black plastic media installed in the upper part of the tower behind the corrugated sheetmetal cladding. 6:50. Westside, Tunnel Project. Canopy will have a waist. Roof plane reduces in width mid length. 8:34. Westside, storage. Right. XNRGY units. Scaffold set up being the rows. Doing some works prior to installation. Magnetron transformer count, 93. 10:27. Temporary Switchyard site. Bottom right. Spreading gravel in the excavation. New electrical vault location likely. Conduits elbow out of the ductbank in this direction. 11:44. Casting, diagonal corner. Apron. Rebar placed, ready for concrete. 13:23. Cathode, west. Plant platform. Bottom left. Bollards placed around the hydrant. 14:22. Cathode, north of. Top left. Pond almost dry. 15:10. Far north storage. Supply of casting racks. My speculation is that these are for Model Y front castings. That variant not currently in production at GT, so racks stored here out of the way. 15:19. Far north storage. Recycling unwanted production line equipment. 15:39. Temporary batch plant. Mothballed. No delivery of materials for many weeks.

@benguthrie49 Ай бұрын

do you think the Y front casts have been being shipped from Fremont?

@DessieDoolan Ай бұрын

@@benguthrie49 That's a possibility. My speculation is that 4680 variant Model Ys (those that have the structural battery pack and cast frontend) stopped when 4680 batteries were required for Cybertruck production. A quick review of Jeff's regular path videos showed Model Y front castings around the place up until about September last year. Roughly the time Cybertruck production was about to start.

@benguthrie49 Ай бұрын

@@DessieDoolan makes sense. occam's razor

@KenWerkSolar Ай бұрын

The views of the cooling tower water spray system are great! thanks

@JohnPaul-pb4eu Ай бұрын

I bet it takes 100 gallons of Biocide to shock feed those big water towers!!😮😮

@johnlehew8192 Ай бұрын

The castings are aluminum. No problem keeping them outside, they won’t rust.

@jw-ol3tl 29 күн бұрын

with AL it's corrosion

@paul5683 28 күн бұрын

But they will get full of dirt, especially with construction nearby. If they are planning on doing some machining on the castings, they will need to wash them. If they are planning on just using them in the assembly, they will need to wash them. A lot of wasted labor and water, plus trying to clean off dried on dirt is difficult and not always successful. My guess is that all those castings are out of spec / scrap.

@parttime9070 28 күн бұрын

@@paul5683 Was thinking the same..

@benguthrie49 Ай бұрын

Thanks Brad

@DeadHeadCycler 29 күн бұрын

Thank you for the kind tunes and steady video.

@rosemaryhowell8694 Ай бұрын

i love the audio!

@thegrisakgroup 20 күн бұрын

Thank you California for being so inept you ran off the greatest businessman of our time and forced him to move to Texas. Signed, a Proud Native Texan!

@Robert8455 28 күн бұрын

That is very impressive to see this place from the air. It kind of boggles my mind on the massive coordination to have so many different projects all going at the same time. I can also see the massive amounts of waste. Surely Tesla has given permission for you to fly and film and really document for them the progress. You have 631 videos all which seem to be on the Giga factory. That is a tremendous amount of time and effort and surely provides value to Tesla. Would it be a stretch to think they are not paying you for your services?

@RoySATX 24 күн бұрын

Tesla Giga Factory, SpaceX Starship Starbase, the amount of industry taking place in TEXAS by just two of Musk's companies is astounding! ⭐

@BTSflyer 24 күн бұрын

You left out Neurolink tool

@thegrisakgroup 20 күн бұрын

Yep, thank you, California!

@rRobertSmith Ай бұрын

They need to build an warehouse, and what are the cable runs half done of the roof for?

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Ай бұрын

The cable runs on the roof when complete, will feed power to the data center. Power will come from a new substation transformer, seen @ 9:41.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Ай бұрын

Thanks Brad! New Megapack site: @ 9:24 (Bottom) Concrete pour complete on smaller duct-bank. Large duct-bank with 12 cable ducts.... 4 cable ducts split off towards excavation. Vault can be seen east of the light pole. Also @ 10:18 (Left). Substation expansion project: @ 9:37 (Bottom) Inside fence, in the corner.... The grey and green cabinets are for metering equipment, as seen installed on the left. The item with 6 bushings on top is a medium voltage circuit breaker set. Old concrete batch plant site: @ 15:38 Speculating that this will be going away. Not just because it hasn't been used for a while, but because of the future phase 2 expansion of the substation. The road and power lines may be in the way. North side of casting: @ 12:14 (Left) Crew working in and around the vaults by the building. Transformers: @ 8:33 Count now down to 93 Speculating that some are going into the south end, or leaving the site for another project. Tunnel: @ 6:46 I may be wrong but wouldn't it be better to place the cover over the electrical equipment? Frame for the canopy being erected over tunnel entrance. Cooling: @ 4:10 Good close up view of water falling down through the cooling tower bays. Castings: @ 4:23 Castings stored in the dirt. @ 15:10 Empty unused casting racks.

@benguthrie49 Ай бұрын

6:46 It was my first thought as well. Why not a trap over the equipment?

@felipecogo4671 Ай бұрын

Does anyone knows why only 8 cars max are carried? there are space for 9, but never saw that... weight limitation? Great videos, Thanks!!!!

@leroyhidalgo6456 Ай бұрын

prob additional weight of an electric car

@Allium_369 26 күн бұрын

Yes it’s weight, I hauled cars for Elon out of Fremont, some loads you can only take 6/7. The battery system makes these cars much more heavier than combustible engine vehicles.

@Cwra1smith 22 күн бұрын

@@Allium_369 That would be combustion engine vehicles. Engines aren't combustible until fuel is introduced.

@tinwizard6447 29 күн бұрын

The video is great but it would be much more valuable with a narrator to tell us what we are looking at.

@BTSflyer 29 күн бұрын

If you have the need to have what you see explained watch Joe Tegtmeyer videos. My videos are a visual update. I leave it up to the watcher to do their own research.

@rickytann2799 Ай бұрын

So much going on there and I live a mile away. Seems like a logistical nightmare and as crazy as it sounds, it looks like they don’t have enough space for any thing haha. Even though they’re buying huge chunks of land, as you can see in the video. I’m sure the land will be used for better purposes in the future, but for now storage haha.

@wim0104 27 күн бұрын

major wrinkles in the production pipeline, but stopping production completely is even more costly.

@timjohnson9830 Ай бұрын

Just wondering if there is a video today? Thanks.

@BTSflyer Ай бұрын

I shot some footage of the south end but the rain started up and wouldn't let up. Will finish tomorrow on the west side.

@timjohnson9830 Ай бұрын

@@BTSflyer Thanks! This is definitely not worth getting your expensive drone wet.

@titusllewelyn 25 күн бұрын

So what are the castings? Are they blanks that have never gone hrough an attempt to make a part for the cars? Are they duds that are failures from attempting to make a part for a car? As I understand it they need a big front piece and a big back piece that are cast aluminum. The battery makes up the middle.

@garrettp.5018 21 күн бұрын

Looks like start up shots from the die. Most have the gating and biscuit on it. The parts not being in proper dunnage is slightly of concern and a leading indicator some poor planning.

@mastermind3005 27 күн бұрын

Muted is better 😅

@andreandre1051 Ай бұрын

Merci👍👍👍

@TheSleestak Ай бұрын

are those castings for cybercabs? sure are a lot of them…!

@DessieDoolan Ай бұрын

Only Model Y rear, Cybertruck front and rear.

@ducknorris233 25 күн бұрын

I drove by on the freeway once and a few minutes later I was still driving by.

@tommygreist9560 Ай бұрын

Amazing😮

@TexasRiverRat31254 Ай бұрын

Still not finished?

@home1A Ай бұрын

The Tunnel Cybertruck Housing will be Great.

@davidpearn5925 Ай бұрын

Face the front and don't ask hard questions. Behave yourself !!!.

@mustafamelihkadioglu8107 Ай бұрын

There should be a Casting Parking Garage vertically constructed and computer controlled. There is no other way to manipulate them easily and save land.🤔🤔🤔

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Ай бұрын

I agree completely. 10 million sq. ft. and 90 feet floor to roof.... They should be able to find space inside the main building for automated vertical storage.

@Russ1956 Ай бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn There's a reason they are outside: •To age them. Aluminum castings are subject to age hardening, which is a process where the metal becomes stronger and more durable over time. This process is accelerated by exposure to heat, so storing the castings outside can help them to age faster. •To remove impurities. Aluminum castings can contain impurities that can weaken the metal and make it more susceptible to corrosion. Storing the castings outside can help to remove these impurities by exposing them to the elements. •To reduce costs. Storing the castings outside is a more cost-effective way to age and clean them than using other methods, such as heat treating them in an oven.

@paul5683 28 күн бұрын

Wow, did you just make that up ? How about explaining why tesla would want to have a lot of dirt settle on the castings. First get them dirty before machining or maybe first get them dirty before assembly. Is that part of your ignorant ideal ?

@mustafamelihkadioglu8107 28 күн бұрын

@@Russ1956 The automated vertical storage system is not necessarily to be built inside.It can be very easily built outside.What do you think about that?

@mustafamelihkadioglu8107 28 күн бұрын

@@paul5683 The automated vertical storage system is not necessarily to be built inside.It can be very easily built outside.What do you think about that?Am I still ignorant?☺️

@Mattanimus Ай бұрын

Date in the title is wrong

@BTSflyer Ай бұрын

Thanks, corrected.

@steves2694 28 күн бұрын

Is there rail access planned?

@BTSflyer 28 күн бұрын

No, there is no rail line close by. They use a railyard 25 miles north near the new Samsung plant.

@robertchautardjensen6846 Ай бұрын

Oh what a shame. Now that the USA has realized the Tesla EV's are not so good, all these components will have to be recycled.

@user-roadwander Ай бұрын

Are you a member of the short bus club?

@robertchautardjensen6846 Ай бұрын

@@user-roadwander anyone shorting Musk at the moment, will likely do well.

@pfcrow Ай бұрын

The labels painted on the castings storage lot are purely aspirational.

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Ай бұрын

Like I said earlier... They just can't stand being neat, organized, and efficient. 😊

@ceelowcreed7538 27 күн бұрын

Where is this in Texas?

@BTSflyer 27 күн бұрын

Just east of Austin Texas

@vicentevaldez1696 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 GigaChina park cars every 37 sec

@DavidJohnson-tv2nn Ай бұрын

Easy to do in a Communist dictatorship. I assume you wouldn't want that over here?

@DessieDoolan Ай бұрын

Do you have a source for the 37 seconds? I'm not disputing it, I recently tried to find an accurate indication of output from each plant, and couldn't find anything definitive.

@robertgore8911 Ай бұрын

Island of misfit toys.Don't let Santa land there,no one wants those flame bombs.🧙‍♂️

@user-roadwander Ай бұрын

Stupid comment. We consider the source.

@Jay_Dahl Ай бұрын

Where are the beautiful p;arks that Elon promised to build along the river?

@KingMrBigE 29 күн бұрын

Somehow I doubt you legally took most of this video... between the airspace around the plant and its associated property plus the power lines.

@dot.6799 28 күн бұрын

And what are you gonna do about it? Cry? Piss your pants?

@KingMrBigE 28 күн бұрын

@@ShainAndrews no but its people like you that end up screwing us all by ignoring the laws in order to make money while the rest of us drone flyers suffer from your greed. You the few are the reason the laws keep getting more strict for all of us. But I am sure you dont care because you only think about yourself.

@lauriaktahi 28 күн бұрын

lolool drone invasion, anyone? times are changing, folks

@michaelkern7942 Ай бұрын

12/5 flight?

@grahamsmith146 Ай бұрын

And ....everything.....made in USA?

@77raymo Ай бұрын

Pre pitted chassis option $5K

@miguelbarba3380 23 күн бұрын

What about the environment building those monstrosity

@edic2619 27 күн бұрын

THOSE DUMMIES THE CASTINGS WILL RUST !

@wim0104 27 күн бұрын

aluminum, bub. they'll just get dusty gunk on them.

@mrwilson7617 Ай бұрын

Will NEVER buy a Tesla. EVER ! ! !

@19chaz76 28 күн бұрын

What a great country to live in where you have that choice. I'd never vote for a democrat but I don't care if people do. Choices.

@Allium_369 26 күн бұрын

Judging by the stock price, you buying one is not going to make or break Tesla. Soon his taxis will be in every city and most people will have no other option but to use them. Then Elon’s robots will be at every store restaurant and every other place you go. The jokes on you buddy 😂😂

@mrwilson7617 26 күн бұрын

@@Allium_369 Still not buying a Tesla. Or getting in one of his taxis or eating food made by his robots. NOT EVER ! No joke.

@Nightsweeper Ай бұрын

Clean energy cars my @$$

@douglasharbert3340 29 күн бұрын

There is no such thing as clean energy. Every form of clean, renewable energy uses petroleum and its byproducts in the manufacturing process. Every. Single. One.

@solardiver7 Ай бұрын

The future of EVs is questionable. And personally I would buy anything Musk had a hand in.

@BTSflyer Ай бұрын

LOL, Tell that to the chinese. If you lived in Texas you would want as many EVs sold as possible. We are more or less ground zero for climate change and one of the major cause of it.

@adriandelaat2905 Ай бұрын

Lot full of junk

@paul5683 28 күн бұрын

That's my guess. Scrapping out those big castings aren't as easy as it sounds. Perhaps they are just a little out of spec and eventually they might still use them. Junk is junk.

@adriandelaat2905 Ай бұрын

The problem is these will not sell, and no way to recycle them? They cab just sit there and rot, and ruin the environment

@user-roadwander Ай бұрын

Your ignorance is incredible. No, No, No.

@paul5683 28 күн бұрын

Recycling those big castings is a lot more difficult than it sounds. The factory is made to run on quality aluminum ingots that fit in the furnace with little effort and has the inherent quality in the raw material. A casting, especially a dirty casting that has been sitting outside is not something that you want to try putting in your production. The giga casting is a borderline process in that everything needs to be at its very best to succeed. Trying to saw up dirty castings and putting them in with the relatively pure aluminum alloy is a fools errand. They are better off shipping them back to the place that makes the ingots. There they can control the quality of the alloy for a consistent giga casting back at tesla.