A brand new drone flyover of the Tesla Gigafactory Texas building web site reveals some nice progress in finishing the enormous manufacturing unit.

It’s exhausting to overstate simply how large a challenge Tesla Gigafactory Texas is.

In mid-2020, Tesla introduced a deal to construct a brand-new manufacturing unit in Austin, the place it bought a 2,000-acre piece of land.

At first, Tesla referred to the manufacturing unit because the Cybertruck Gigafactory as a result of the automaker deliberate to supply the electrical pickup truck there.

Nevertheless, we reported that Tesla first planned to produce the Model Y at the factory, and the corporate later renamed it “Gigafactory Texas.”

The automaker plans to supply Mannequin 3, Mannequin Y, Cybertruck, and Tesla Semi at Gigafactory Texas.

Building began in July 2020, and the automaker plans to achieve “first completion” in May 2021 with manufacturing anticipated to start out shortly after.

Tesla additionally plans to ascertain battery cell manufacturing on the manufacturing unit and make it an “ecological paradise” open to the public.

A number of folks have been doing common drone flyovers of the development web site to trace progress.

A brand new drone flyover from Jeff Roberts give us a spectacular 20-minute take a look at the challenge, which is beginning to take form properly:

The video offers us a good suggestion of the size of the challenge. The video was filmed yesterday in a single day, and you may see lots of of staff busy in many various locations onsite.

Some are constructing metal buildings, others are closing within the partitions, some are including new foundations to continue to grow the buildings, and we even see extra land being graded for future expansions on the web site.

Final month, Tesla started moving machinery into the factory, together with what gave the impression to be a lot of robots.

Yesterday, Roberts captured footage of enormous new gear going into the manufacturing unit with markings studying “prime coat” – main folks to imagine that it’s gear for Tesla’s paint store at Gigafactory Texas.

Tesla hasn’t disclosed a transparent timeline to start out Mannequin Y manufacturing on the manufacturing unit, however it’s beginning to rent manufacturing staff in preparation.

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