Tesla is rumored to start out preliminary buyer deliveries of the Cybertruck this month, and whereas it is anybody’s guess whether or not that may really occur, there are indicators that one thing massive is cooking at Gigafactory Texas. Particularly, what does it imply once we see so many Cybertruck entrance and rear castings simply sitting round?
Drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer lifted the drone above the location right this moment, and he was stunned to see a plethora of Cybertruck castings positioned straight on the concrete platform proper exterior the plant.
As you possibly can see from the pictures shared by Tegtmeyer on his X (previously Twitter) web page, there’s most likely a complete of 200 castings in these pictures. Now, you are most likely questioning why Tesla is storing these castings exterior when the Giga Texas plant constructing is so big.
Effectively, that is one thing Tesla has been doing for some time now in any respect its vegetation, and it possible means these are extra castings. It most likely additionally implies that there are various extra castings saved contained in the manufacturing unit.
As Tegtmeyer places it, “we’ve got by no means seen this many” Cybertruck entrance and rear castings ever, and that in itself may be very telling. The excessive variety of castings might counsel Tesla is happy with their high quality and has began to churn them out in giant batches and pile them up for manufacturing, which is one thing we noticed prior to now with the Mannequin Y castings as nicely.
In one other signal that Cybertruck buyer automobile manufacturing is about to choose up at Giga Texas, a cargo that appeared to incorporate structural battery packs was delivered on the manufacturing unit earlier this week.
Tegtmeyer’s drone was there to seize the second, and the footage reveals what appear like pallets of structural battery packs. Whereas Tegtmeyer noticed the pallets on the southwest receiving door of Giga Texas, close to the realm the place the Cybertruck is being assembled, it is not very clear what automobile the deliveries have been for.
Within the picture, one can see two pallets aspect by aspect, with the furthest ones together with metallic from what appears to be a visual battery pack. Among the X customers stated within the thread that the battery packs appeared a lot bigger than these for the Mannequin Y, whereas others commented that the packs appeared much like the structural packs for the Mannequin Y.
It is troublesome to position a verdict within the absence of clearer photographs, although. The Cybertruck structural packs are being assembled each at Giga Texas and on the Fremont Manufacturing unit. On this case, the cargo possible got here from California.
Both approach, these sightings are very thrilling for Tesla and EV fans as a result of it means the most-hyped electrical automobile ever is lastly on the point of enter manufacturing for purchasers.