Posted on 02/15/2022 11:12:21 AM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK......................
As Tesla's Gigafactory Texas manufacturing plant is getting closer to its grand opening— expected to take place before the end of this quarter—a video taken by a drone during a 360-degree flyover of the site serves as a reminder of how massive the electric vehicle plant is.
Shot by Joe Tegtmeyer, a drone operator who has been following the progress on Giga Texas since the beginning of construction work, this flyover video helps viewers appreciate the true scale of the factory.
You realize this is a giant building when the cars and even the semi trailers around it look like ants in comparison; or when you learn that circling the building once took 50% of the drone's battery charge, as Joe later acknowledged on Twitter.
What's also impressive is the number of cars parked outside, suggesting there's some intense activity happening inside the plant.
Unlike the Fremont site, which was built originally to produce internal combustion engine vehicles, Giga Texas is fully optimized for producing EVs and will likely snatch Fremont's title of North America's most productive car plant once production ramps up.
With an average production of 8,550 cars a week last year, Fremont overtook Toyota's facility in Georgetown, Kentucky (8,427 cars a week), BMW's Spartanburg plant in South Carolina (8,343) or Ford's truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan (5,564).
As with the Giga Berlin plant, the Austin, Texas facility will produce Model Y electric crossovers at first. However, whereas the Made-in-Germany Model Y will feature 2170 cells, the Texas-made version will pack the new 4680-type cylindrical battery cells, as confirmed by Tesla executives during the Q4 2021 financial report.
As a result, the Tesla Model Y will be company's first vehicle with a structural battery pack design.
Further down the line, Giga Texas will build the Cybertruck electric pickup and Semi electric truck, although there are no firm production start dates for any of these vehicles. During the latest earnings call, Elon Musk said there will be no new vehicle introductions in 2022, adding that they "hopefully" will happen in 2023.
This is the product of government subsidy.
Because without government subsidy, Tesla would not be making cars...it would be a failed business venture.
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yep
I notice it’s right next to a toll road.
It has to take quite a drainage system to handle the runoff.
Don’t need no stinking elevator ... need what the airport gates have, people movers.
wonder what Gilley thinks?
Where are the windmills and solar panels? Or does the building run on batteries, too?
Free Traitors tell us we can’t build factories in the USA anymore. “Too expensive” they say. We need to import everything made in the 3rd instead. THEY ARE ALL FULL OF BIDEN!!
>>This is the product of government subsidy.<<
There is much truth in that statement.
If government had not destroyed our fossil fuel industry, Tesla would have found more competition.
Speculation is that there will be multiple solar panel arrays on the roof ... in the pattern of a ‘tesla’ logo.
They tend to install that stuff toward the end of the construction cycle
Shouldn’t stories about how big something is say how big it is?
Those are additives to be installed later. CA could have had this built if they were not so anti-business.
Everything’s big in TEXAS!.................Just ask any Texan!................
“Because without government subsidy, Tesla would not be making cars...it would be a failed business venture.”
Perhaps at the outset Tesla would not have succeeded without the electric car subsidy. But now that they’re established in the market and enough people like them I imagine they’d survive without the subsidy.
Also, Tesla has paid back the $400 million Federal loan they got started on and their direct subsidy for producing electric vehicles totaled $2.4 billion as of August 2020.
For producing what is a stylish and relatively reliable car.
By comparison Ford took out $6 billion in Federal loans to start their electric vehicle program and they haven’t paid back even one penny. Ford has also received $33.5 billion in subsidies to produce electric vehicles that are not nearly as popular and reliable as the Tesla products.
GM & Chrysler took out $67bn in Federal loans to start their electric car programs which failed and both firms went bankrupt and the loans will never be paid pack.
Tesla is prospering in this market and I expect if the Feds cut off the money spigot then Tesla would end up the sole manufacturer of electric vehicles and they might even do better when the inept competition leaves the market.
Full disclosure: I do not own a Tesla. I have a couple of old Volvos and a 1965 Ford.
From recent filings, it seems most of their *profit comes from China. The US cost of business doesn’t seem to inspire them.
Read this and have a stroke.......
Xi is well into the process of eliminating private business in China. I’ve not seen a time table and it will take a while. Business and industry will be in the form of state owned entities that will takeover the existing private companies.
Foreign businesses are closing businesses and manufacturing and leaving China. This includes most if not all very large American, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and German companies.
While some are returning some manufacturing to the USA and home countries, the word on the street is that they are just moving to Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and especially Mexico.
What that says is that many products still can’t be manufactured here because they would not be salable because the cost would be to expensive. That is another way of saying that the world demands global sourcing on a product by product, component by component basis that creates the least expensive but best quality possible.
That is, the market, a free market works on a GLOBAL basis within the various government established parameters to produce what customers around the world will actually buy.
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