Tesla’s newest Gigafactory under construction in Texas continues to keep pace with expectations set by the company during its other building projects in Shanghai and Berlin. In doing so, the all-electric carmaker’s construction strategy looks to be quite scalable given the size of the Texas Gigafactory region is much larger than all of Tesla’s other factory locations.
Recent drone video shared by Joe Tegtmeyer on his self-titled YouTube channel has revealed a huge amount of land clearing accomplished over less than a week, namely from July 27th – August 2nd. In the footage, Tegtmeyer further notes the location of a large fill dirt area for all the ground shaping activities while also pointing out the pond and swamp-draining underway. The on-site crew looks to be working seven days per week; however, the lack of lighting in the area indicates all activities are limited to daytime only.
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