It’s been less than two weeks since Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the automaker would build a new production facility in Austin, Texas. Now, a video shows that the installation structure that will space several Tesla vehicles, adding the Cybertruck, is already underway.
As Tesla’s progress was noted through the impatient audience of its Shanghai Gigafactory, a particular YouTuber looked at the site through a drone and documented everything it could. We are talking about asset limits, fill roads used through semi-trailers and even daily changes. While this might seem a little obsessive, it actually provides us with a clever concept of how temporarily the automaker is moving to make his next installation a reality.
As you can imagine, the domain is still a large pile of land, a little flatter and brown than a few weeks ago. But in a few months, the region is about to be full of landscapes, vegetation and machines, because for Tesla, it’s more than a production plant, it’s “an ecological paradise” disguised as an installation that assembles electric cars.
“Well, it’s time we built an auto plant in America,” Musk said in an interview with Automotive News. “Right now, 70% of all Tesla cars are manufactured in Fremont, in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a fairly appreciated position to make cars. It is, at least, counterintuitive. However, 70% of all Tesla international cars are manufactured in the Bay Area.”
Despite Tesla’s war with Texas for direct sales to consumers, Musk says the state remains the second largest automaker’s second-largest market after California. Then, of course, it made sense to locate the plant nearby. However, it is not transparent whether the automaker will sell the cars it manufactures in Texas, given to the musk public that the new facility will be guilty of construction cars for the eastern part of the United States.
Regardless, Musk says that Tesla isn’t done with the plants in the U.S. The CEO mentioned during the same interview that Tesla will likely look to build a third Gigafactory somewhere in the Northeast (ignoring the already existing Gigfactory in Buffalo that manufacturers solar panels for Tesla’s solar branch), though, with two operational plants and two under construction, it won’t be anytime soon.
Fortunately, this specific episode of structure doesn’t seem as hectic as Tesla’s other facility, Gigfactory Berlin, which is also in structure. We haven’t noticed any eco-activists or unearthed Allied bombs from World War II, so it’s fair to say that things seem to be going well so far.
Tesla’s Cybertruck production is expected to begin in 2021.
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