Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas has been busy for the reason that Cybertruck’s preliminary supply occasion in November, because the automaker continues to ramp up manufacturing of the electrical pickup.
On Wednesday, drone operator and longtime Giga Texas observer Joe Tegtmeyer shared one other building replace video from the manufacturing facility, displaying each Cybertruck and Mannequin Y items within the automaker’s outbound lot.
Tegtmeyer says that Cybertruck manufacturing is ramping and that quantity seems to be greater than final week, although he additionally provides that it’s laborious to depend as a result of the vans are being loaded up and shipped as quickly as they’re making it outdoors the manufacturing facility. He additionally notes that automobiles are being picked up and shipped notably quickly immediately, together with the Mannequin Y items.
You may see a couple of stills from Tegtmeyer’s drone flight under, as shared on X on Wednesday morning.
Cybertrucks being loaded onto transports as quickly as they arrive on the outbound lot! Manufacturing fee appears greater, however laborious to quantify. Extra in testing & supercharger lot preparing & 4 extra on W aspect staging location. Cybertruck physique on N finish of paint store. Extra in my video… pic.twitter.com/VQkEtZT62E
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The Tesla Cybertruck started preliminary deliveries at a Giga Texas delivery event on November 30, with solely a dozen or so items going out on the occasion. Since then, increasingly more Cybertrucks have been making their way into the fingers of Tesla employees and some celebrities, to this point all being the limited launch edition “Foundation Series” versions of the pickup.
The Cybertruck manufacturing ramp going easily will come as welcome information to the automobile’s many reservation holders, as many await their very own orders for the truck, and even the possibility to put an order.
CEO Elon Musk tempered Cybertruck production ramp expectations at Tesla’s Q3 earnings call in October, estimating it may take 12 to 18 months earlier than the automobile reaches quantity manufacturing, and earlier than it turns into a “important optimistic money stream contributor.”
The drone video additionally consists of a number of different fascinating building notes, together with what one viewer recognized to Tegtmeyer as both a defend holder-transporter or concrete liner set up determine — seemingly indicating plans for a tunneling mission on the manufacturing facility.
After some digging, Tegtmeyer factors out that the {hardware} appears like a bit of apparatus seen on The Boring Firm’s website as a part of its Prufrock tunneling system. He goes on to element additional evaluation of the {hardware}, together with a allow he discovered from The Boring Company facility in Bastrop, Texas, as he highlights what it may imply for Giga Texas.
You may see Joe’s full building replace from Giga Texas on Wednesday under, with the Cybertrucks within the outbound lot proven a bit after the 29-minute mark.
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