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Tesla Gigafactory Texas in Austin is starting to take shape with construction rising on both sides of the first section of the construction site.
In May 2020, Electrek exclusively reported that Tesla’s next factory will be in Austin.
At the time, a source said Tesla intended to move fast, hoping to have a general assembly line for Model Y in Texas by the end of the year.
This is despite the fact that the factory was initially known as the “Cybertruck Gigafactory” to produce Tesla’s new electric pickup trucks.
Tesla took longer than expected to complete the approval process, with the result that the Gigafactory Texas project in Austin was not approved until the end of July 2020.
This killed the hope of having any kind of production capacity at the site before the end of the year, but the project is still moving fast.
Last month, we shared a video of the construction sites showing great progress in the foundations of the plant.
Now, a month later, a new video of a Jeff Roberts drone shows that the factory is starting to take shape with the first building under construction:
We can see the steel beams of a two storey building rising with the foundations around giving us an idea of the size of the building:
On the other side of the site of the first section of Tesla Gigafactory Texas, there is also a lot of construction work in what we believe are the foundations of Tesla’s upcoming giant casting machines for the factory:
The progress we’ve been seeing at the site in recent weeks is encouraging, but Tesla and its contractors are still only working on the construction of the base (the core elements of the building).
The hard part will happen early next year when Tesla is expected to begin deploying manufacturing equipment at the site to put its manufacturing processes in place.
At first, the focus will be on producing the Model Y, but Tesla quickly plans to begin work on manufacturing Cybertruck at the factory.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently commented that in order for Tesla to bring the Cybertruck into production by the end of the year, everything must go smoothly at Gigafactory Texas and they must develop their new manufacturing process for the exoskeletal body of the pick- up.
The CEO has warned that there will be challenges when trying to do this and has set the stage for possible delays.
The official timing for the start of some kind of production (not necessarily complete vehicles) at Gigafactory Texas is now around May 2021.
Tesla has also recently acquired even more land around the Gigafactory site in Texas and is looking to roll out battery cell production capacity at the site as well.
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