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Tesla Built a Tunnel Under Their Texas HQ · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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the critical crossroads, the Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The
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Boring Company and Neuralink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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The Boring Company has officially announced the
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upcoming Cyber Tunnel at Tesla's Gigafactory in Texas.
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Now, this development marks a significant milestone for Elon
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Musk's tunneling enterprise. The Cyber tunnel is slated to be
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operational by July 2024, with its construction spearheaded by
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TB CS. Latest tunnel boring machine TBM
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Proof Rock Three Now The journey began in January when Proof Rock
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Three was first spotted near Tesla's Giga Texas.
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After extensive assembly, the TBM started tunneling through
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Pickle Parkway, eventually breaking through to Giga Texas.
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TBC shared a time lapse of Proof Ruck 3 emerging at the end of
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the tunnel, suggesting a connection to a Giga Texas
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station. TBM retrieval inside buildings
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has awesome applications for Loop can pop up in parking
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garages, factories, convention halls, and even hotel lobbies.
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TB Set said in a post on X. And this statement is showing
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the versatility of this tunneling technology.
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It can go basically anywhere in the Boring Company's post also
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mentioned their ongoing projects, particularly the loops
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in Las Vegas. Recently, the Boring Company
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celebrated giving rides to 2,000,000 passengers in the Las
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Vegas Convention Center LVCC Loop, which connects the
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convention center's 3 halls. Expansion efforts are underway
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for the Vegas Loop, a broader tunneling network intended to
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span the city. This project aims to enhance
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urban transportation and alleviate traffic congestion
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through an efficient underground system.
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And in a significant move, the cyber Tunneling Gigatexis is
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specifically designed for transporting cyber trucks.
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According to Tesla Cyber Truck lead Engineer W Morrill, the
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tunnel will link the end of the cyber truck manufacturing line
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to the logistics lot, streamlining shipment in
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delivery processes. Morrill emphasized that this
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connection would reduce on site traffic and approve quality
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control. He said since it's effectively a
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giant pipe, maybe we should switch from measuring UPH units
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per hour to mass flow rate. He sat on X and the Cyber tunnel
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is set to enhance the overall efficiency and quality of cyber
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truck production. Morrow pointed out that the
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tunnel would bypass construction areas within the Gigafactory,
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minimizing touch points that could potentially damage the
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vehicles. Now, Tesla's Gigafactory in
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Texas spans 2500 acres along the Colorado River, currently
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occupies 10 million square feet of factory floor space, and
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there are significant plans for expansion to accommodate
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thousands of AI chips and computers, among other
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facilities. Now, Elon must compare the fully
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expanded factory to the length of a Star Destroyer from Star
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Wars, or approximately 1600 meters.
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This growth plan shows that Tesla is scaling up their
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operations in Texas. But now the Boring Company, this
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is also one of Elon Musk's ventures, aims to address
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traffic problems through innovative ground tunnels.
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Now, these loops provide rapid point to point transportation,
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reducing surface traffic and transit times.
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And collaboration between Musk's companies are not new.
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For example, the Tesla Roadster vehicle was developed in part
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with input from SpaceX engineers, which SpaceX, if you
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didn't know, is Elon Musk's rocket company.
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The Roadster is expected to be unveiled by hopefully the end of
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2024, but we're not exactly sure about that.
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And deliveries could start sometime in 2025.
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But we know Tesla and this vehicle, the Roadster, is kind
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of never on time. And the Cybertunnel project
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began to take shape following a suggestion from a Tesla
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enthusiast on X last year. Steve Hamill, 16, proposed a
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tunnel to streamline movement of cars from the factory to a
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logistics lot, an idea that has now come to fruition.
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The Boring Company has completed the tumbling work at Gigafactory
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Texas and Pure Prufrock 3, Sorry about that, has emerged in the
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Tesla Giga Texas expansion. Cybertunnel will be online in
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July of this year. Now in that series of posts by
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Wes earlier, he said this is definitely part of the plan, and
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he confirmed that cyberdrucks would self drive through the
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tunnel. Merle explained that the tunnel
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would help maintain the quality of Cybertruck production by
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avoiding ongoing construction zones within the Giga Ray
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factory itself. Zeprose is expected to reduce
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potential damage and improve overall efficiency, and the
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Cybertunnel is anticipated to streamline logistics in the
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Gigafactory, enhancing the efficiency of Tesla's
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operations. And this is by reducing traffic
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and improving the quality control process.
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It's a forward thinking approach that no other car manufacturer
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has taken. Hey, thank you so much for
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