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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
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