Document cars that I’ve had or still have and I’ve added in a documentary of the Tesla Giga-Texas factory site construction and hope to see this through to its completion if all goes well. My hope is that viewers will enjoy my videos, perhaps find them informative and entertaining.
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Starship Flight 8 is just around the corner & this is an extremely important flight for SpaceX with data collection & several dozens of milestone completion the true goals of this mission. What are those milestones, what are they testing & what can we expect for Flight 8? This video clip goes…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. A beautiful day to fly over the Lithium plant, with decent winds, abundant sunshine and great lighting conditions! I start with a high altitude fly over to help the viewer see the entire site at once and to help out into context where all the detailed sections of the plant we will…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and in 2025, the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot! It was a foggy yet beautiful sunrise kind of morning, with large billowing clouds of vapors rising up from all over the main factory & nearby power plant,…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Another very cold day here in central Texas, with wind chills into the 20 degrees F (~ -5 C), windy & cloudy. Hopefully we will begin to transition to more…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is a stand-alone video to bring together multiple big construction projects in and around Giga Texas that are important for the growth and expansion of the factory. Must occur this work is now underway or is expected to begin sometime this year! The first major construction project I cover is the…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is a short video clip showing the progress and expansion of several facilities in Bastrop, Texas associated with the Elon Musk economy in central Texas. The SpaceX Starlink facility has grown to over 1 million sq feet (~93,000 Sq m) of production space. SpaceX’s Bastrop facility is a major hub for…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Beautiful day to fly today and since it is the President’s Day holiday and not much is going on, I decided to do another Grand Tour trip around the site,…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Early morning (& cold) flight today with many interior images along the west and south ends of the factory today! Timestamps: Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Another cloudy day following severe thunderstorms and heavy rain yesterday, and the amount of standing water and mud is evident as we fly around the site today. Despite this, it…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Low clouds, rising vapors off the roof & cooling plant, some mist & much colder, but otherwise, another great day to fly with many big developments, especially on the north…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Today, Giga Texas we see a lot of great things around the site. Despite the overcast skies it did give us a lot of very good diffuse lighting, so the…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Today at Giga Texas, I observed significant construction and production activities, including the movement of numerous Model Y vehicles to the outbound lot. I got here early hoping to be…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! At Giga Texas, the morning started out foggy with low ceilings, but it cleared up enough to get in a full flight! Today was a milestone day for Tesla as…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! What a great day to fly at Giga Texas today with beautiful skies, light winds, and a lot of great things to see. One of the best things today was…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Cloudy and cold morning to fly today, but I was able to get in a full flight as well as a detailed introduction in my video about the new wastewater…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Better day to fly with blue skies, light winds and temperatures in the 40s F (~6 to 7 C) … big day with the start of refreshed Model Y production…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Super cold day and I delayed my normal flight time a few hours to try and get the temperatures up a little, so I started flying at about 36 F…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is a video showing a nearly full-circuit testing of the Tesla Cybercab around the Giga Texas factory … this testing is to gather data in a variety of situations which is then used to train and improve the self-driving (FSD) software that will not only help realize the robotaxi fleet, but…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! After 11 days at Starbase for the launch of Starship Flight 7, I’m back at Giga Texas and was able to get in a flight before a strong winter storm…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! In this video, we take a grand tour around the larger Giga Texas property and see areas we do not normally get to observe and see what has changed and…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. What’s better than being at SpaceX Starbase, on the beach and looking at a full stack Starship just days from launch? An incredible Cybertruck lightship with an epic score and great company! Check this out!
From Joe Tegtmeyer. What a cold, windy and overcast day at the site and conditions made it a challenge to fly the drone and capture smooth video, but I think the results are pretty good! Certainly, we can see enough to now a lot of detail progress on the first half of the plant has…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Rafael, also known as TesLatino has a remarkable story of epic trips all over North America with his Tesla Cybertruck, including a 5,000 mile + trip from Florida to the Arctic Circle and back! In just 9 months of ownership, he and his Cybertruck have travelled 56,000 miles with very little issues…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! I got a very late start due to cold temperatures and strong winds. I was fortunate to capture more Cybercab testing along the west side of General Assembly today and…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. As we get closer to SpaceX Starships flight #7 in early January 2025, I thought it might be helpful to go over many of the key milestones and objectives of this first mission with the second generation of Starship and then go into more detail about the aerodynamics of reentry and how…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, Cyber Truck the Next Generation Car(s), Cybercab & the Optimus Robot production happens in 2025! Fog, mist & low clouds greeting me on arrival at Giga Texas today, so I ended up delaying my drone flight for a few hours to let it clear enough…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This video attempts to cover 12 months of extreme changes, additions, construction & more at Giga Texas. 2024 was truly a big year of changes and it is important, I think, to recap all of this to better understand why I think 2025 will be such a breakout year for Tesla. Many…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. So much happened in 2024 at Giga Texas & I wanted to help you see the changes from the point of view of my drone! This is the 1st of 2 videos to document 2024 & is mostly slides & specific areas around Giga Texas. Most of the work occurred in 2024…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. So much happened in 2024 at Giga Texas & I wanted to help you see the changes from the point of view of my drone! This is the 1st of 2 videos to document 2024 & is mostly slides & specific areas around Giga Texas. Most of the work occurred in 2024…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! The New Years holiday week starts off with no production, very little construction, flags at half-staff in honor of President Carter and large DMG MORI milling machine deliveries at the DIE Shop. We also…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is the second attempt to do a live stream via my Drone over Giga Texas. I’ve upgraded some of my hardware, hopefully improving audio, but the resolution for the live stream will only be 720P, so a bit of a bummer. Nevertheless, I’m going to give this another try!
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is the second attempt to do a live stream via my Drone over Giga Texas. I’ve upgraded some of my hardware, hopefully improving audio, but the resolution for the live stream will only be 720P, so a bit of a bummer. Nevertheless, I’m going to give this another try!
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Merry Christmas! This will be my last drone flight this week (most likely) so I can celebrate and spend time with family. AS a bonus to my normal main video, I also did a…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is my first attempt at a live drone flight at Giga Texas. I still need to upgrade some of y equipment and learn how to effectively do a live drone video and interact with chat, but this is the first step in that direction.
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From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Busy day on this day before the Winter Solstice and the weekend before Christmas! Many interesting developments all over the site today including on the west side at and near the Boring Company Cybertunnel,…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! The weather forecast was bleak yesterday evening and I was not sure if I would be able to get a chance to fly today, but fortunately, the expected dense fog held off and so…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Lots to see today around the site! Here is a summary of what you’ll see both in the images and the video! Timestamps: Drone flight overview with discussion & illustration: 0:06 to 5:07 Drone…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is a compilation of multiple video clips from 13 December 2024 around Giga Texas featuring several different locations and Cybercabs. Trailing behind the Tesla Cybercab continues to be a black Model 3 collecting data and validating the driving characteristics of the Cybercabs. The data collected during these test drives is used…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Warmer day but cloudy and rains threatening all morning, so I decided to get here early and try to fly before all the wet weather arrived and things worked out pretty well. Lots of…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Today was the coldest day of the season so far, with temperatures near freezing but otherwise clear skies and great lighting to look around another busy day at Giga Texas! Timestamps: Drone flight overview…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Overall a good day to fly with some early fog that lifted quickly slowing the start of my drone flight, but we do get to see some very interesting things around the site, including…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is the Special version with members of the San Antonio Owners Group that participated in the filming of San Antonio Tesla Owners Group Lightship as part of the Worldwide light show organized by xlightshows This event will start on 7 December 2024 in New Zealand, then follow the night as the…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. This is the Main show for the San Antonio Tesla Owners Group Light show as part of the Worldwide light show organized by xlightshows This event will start on 7 December 2024 in New Zealand, then follow the night as the show moves from country to country, continent to continent crossing Asia,…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Bitterly cold day today (first true day of wintery weather at the site) but I was able to fly and get some really interesting images and video around the site and the most important…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Rainy Day at the site caused me to delay several hours before the rains cleared enough for me to fly. With the low clouds, I had to stay at a low altitude for most…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. I was fortunate enough to capture an extended drone video of the Tesla Cybercab undergoing testing at Giga Texas today. The Cybercab was followed by a black Model 3 with a similar sensor quite installed to collect data for verification and Validation testing. The road course took the Cybercab around the west…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Busy start to December today with a lot of work on the west side Boring Company tunnel W entrance, 1,000s of castings arranges around the north end and east sides of the factory, and…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Busy day before Thanksgiving at Giga Texas! From the Boring Company work on the tunnel, to Switchyard expansion and a second BESS (Battery Electric Storage System) aka Megapack site, to the Bag House filtration…
From Joe Tegtmeyer. Gigafactory Texas! This is where Model Y’s, and Cyber Truck production happens and soon, the Next Generation Car! Happy Thanksgiving Week! Today I decided to do a wide-ranging flight and cover much of the site to get reacquainted with how the site looks and what all is going on since I’ve been…