Cybertruck Has a Texas Home! Musk Announces Gigafactory Texas For Cybertruck Production!

[TyPope]

Terafactory is 5 minutes from the airport. I'll fly there and drive it back to Maryland . . . oops, I meant I'll let my cybertruck drive me back to Maryland.

Maybe summon your CT to the airport... THAT would be wild.

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[TyPope]

No.

 

[Ehninger1212]

Very happy this is official.. although everyone saw it coming. I will definitely be picking up my CT from the factory. Very proud to have Tesla building a factory in Texas.

 

[hridge2020]

 

[Bigsur345]

Thanks for posting this! It’s kind of funny reading about the area and it mentioned “moderate traffic.” I that’s about to change drastically!! ?

That Redi-Mix and asphalt plant to the north are popping the champagne

 

[LeoIsRad]

Hahaha love it!!!
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[Holmern]

Cant wait to pick up my truck and get a hometown factory tour!!!!

 

[Bigsur345]

Thanks for posting this! It’s kind of funny reading about the area and it mentioned “moderate traffic.” I that’s about to change drastically!! ?

I have Google Earth Pro and looked at the historical pics of the site; here's a view from 2003. There was a sand pit in the NE area of the site - let's hope there is not any Brownfield issues.

I see what could be characterized as wetlands and I saw a few large settling ponds that have been since filled in and vegitiated - there'll be alotta pile drivin over there at those ponds $$$

As a civil engineer, I can tell you this site is a tiny bit messy; hopefully, they get on it and not find additional geotechnical and/or environmental issues and people won't overly freak out on any final wetland dispostion.

I wouldn't mind working this job; alot of challenges but probably incredibly stressful :-0

Without property lines and additional facts, all of this is speculation .... except the stress part.

Can't wait to drive down from Dallas and pick my truck up!

 

[TyPope]

I have Google Earth Pro and looked at the historical pics of the site. There was a sand pit in the NE area of the site - let's hope there is not any Brownfield issues.

I see what could be characterized as wetlands and I saw a few large settling ponds that have been since filled in and vegitiated - there'll be alotta pile drivin over there at those ponds $$$

As a civil engineer, I can tell you this site is a tiny bit messy; hopefully, they get on it and not find additional geotechnical and/or environmental issues and people won't overly freak out on any final wetland dispostion.

I wouldn't mind working this job; alot of challenges but probably incredibly stressful :-0 Can't wait to drive down from Dallas and pick my truck up!

The site itself is on a current cement place / gravel pit, isn't it?

 

[sdk]

I think you meant to say 2000 acres, not 2 acres.

 

[BillyGee]

Ohhh... but the operating costs start increasing dramatically right about that mileage. Injectors, turbos, starters, fuel pumps all begin to fail right about then. I had to let my last Ford go simply because of operating cost, I couldn’t afford to keep that truck any longer.

I've got 189k on my 2013 F350 diesel. Those operating costs alone cost more than the loan on my CT will be

 

[TyPope]

I've got 189k on my 2013 F350 diesel. Those operating costs alone cost more than the loan on my CT will be

I just sold my 3013 F350 diesel... I feel your pain.

 

[carrtb]

Looking forward to my new CT! I’m in Amarillo. Truck country here. Hoping our 2001 F150 Crew with 367,000 miles will hang in there, I shouldn’t doubt the dang thing as it’s been a great truck for two decades.

 

[Garden_Aum]

Thank god!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!! My truck will BE TEXAS MADE!!!!!!

Now the countdown begins. When will the first Cybertruck roll off out of the factory? When will we see one in the wild? How many accidents will be caused by people staring in amazement as the ignore the fact that the car ahead of them just stopped?

 

[ricinro]

The site itself is on a current cement place / gravel pit, isn't it?

I think the property is bounded by Harold green rd to the north, toll road 45 to the west and the Colorado river to the south and east.
This property was likely river bed the past few millions years which is why recently it was mined for sand and perhaps gravel. It appears that the ditches on the west side was used for elevating the toll road and material on the east side used for the Martin Mariotta cement plant to the north. There is an easement running in the middle of the property, north to south, with high voltage electrical lines.

If Tesla builds a large building they will need to do a lot of earth moving and figuring out how to manage runoff from the tollway.
I expect an army of graders in the next month or so!