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