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- This morning, I woke up in Southern Utah
and I got a message that I had an official invite
to come here to Austin, Texas,
to go to the Cyber Rodeo and see Elon Musk speak on stage.
And you know I don't like to miss a Tesla event
because there are always surprises, it is always fun.
And from what I'm seeing so far this might be
the most fun Tesla event that I've ever been to.
Luckily, thanks to some good friends,
I was able to get some sort of VIP pass and I am in.
There were 15,000 people that were invited to this.
You've got politicians that are speaking tonight,
at nine o'clock Elon is going to speak.
I think it's going to be a wild night.
Let's do this.
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There's no cell service here
I think cause there's so many people.
But good news, there is Cyber Rodeo WiFi,
but look at all the other WiFi.
It's probably all of these wall chargers right here.
Oh my gosh, there's Franz right there
just randomly walking through here.
He is the one that's designed pretty much all of the Teslas.
There is an actual petting zoo with animals.
So here's the Gigafactory.
The doors are open right here and then the party
and the speech is going to be down that way.
Well, might as well go inside
and see what it looks like in there.
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It looks like some sort of assembly line is here.
(chuckling) Oh this is so cool.
I've never been inside of one of the Tesla factories.
I've owned multiple cars, I've taken apart their engines,
but this is really cool.
And this looks like the motors for the Model Y.
So the rear motor is just sitting there, motor
after motor after motor.
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Here we go right there, we've got it hanging on the wall
What's inside of a Tesla.
When I left my house this morning
I was excited to hear Elon speak.
And now that I'm coming inside of here
I did not realize how much I would love seeing this.
There's a body of a Model Y right there going through.
It is the 4680 batteries.
"The structural battery improves ride comfort
while increasing emergency handling."
Oh my gosh, look at this.
So you can see that body is just hovering
above the structural battery pack, the 4680.
Now, when they come along this assembly line
this orange Jack right here raises up the battery pack
and connects it to the actual portion of the car.
I would imagine there's a lot of welding
and different clicks that go into place to get it connected.
But then after this step you actually have a vehicle
that is put together and then can go get the doors
and some of the other things done.
Sometimes people get worried
about batteries being inside of a car
and what happens if you're in an accident
and do the batteries catch on fire and explode?
Yes in extreme circumstances, they can catch on fire.
But the majority of the time there are protections
in place so that the battery pack does not catch on fire.
And with the 4680 battery cells
and this process of having it be a structural battery pack
it's going to make the car stronger
but it's also going to protect the batteries
in case of an accident.
You're far more likely to have your car catch on fire
from getting in an accident with gas inside of the vehicle.
I'm hoping from Elon we're gonna learn
a little bit more tonight about the 4680 batteries
and how they not only are safer but I'm hoping
they're lower cost and they have more range in the vehicles.
The first and second row seats of the Tesla Model Y
are fully assembled right here in Giga-Austin.
I can't tell if the white seats are either
a T for the Tesla logo or a Y for the model Y,
because primarily the model Y is gonna be coming out this
but I don't know why it just makes me happy
to see all of these seats lined up.
What's inside of the Tesla seat.
We've taken a few of them apart before.
You've obviously heard
about Tesla's using autopilot to drive around.
Well inside of the Gigafactory,
in order to go from place to place,
they have these red skids that have some sort
of radar or cameras on each one of the corners of them.
And through each stage of the process,
these automatically drive a around to take things
from the next step and the next step, all on the same skid.
Whether it's the finished Tesla Model Y
or the car going to the body shop or the paint shop
or the structural battery pack, they all use these skids
in order to navigate their way through.
There's the screen for the Model Y
and the entire dashboard with the air conditioning unit
on it just moving around an assembly line here.
Again, I can't believe how excited I am
to be inside of the factory.
I could spend a week just learning about this whole process.
It is so cool to look at.
Behind us We have what looks like the paint shop bay
but then also some insanely bright LED lights.
And I know it looks cool for the setup today
but my guess is this is in order for them to inspect
the vehicle under the lights to make sure
that the paint job was a good paint job.
So we're an hour and 15 minutes away
from Elon speaking on stage.
And you know the way I usually operate these things,
I get here early, I'm right at the front of the stage,
but today I just cannot get over
how cool the battery shop is.
So I'm gonna wait in this massive line right here
and go upstairs because upstairs we should be able to see
the battery assembly line, the 4680s.
That's something I really want to see.
I've made it upstairs.
This is the second level and it is packed.
People getting drinks, people buying
Tesla shop stuff like merchandise.
And I see an original Tesla Roadster,
I gotta go see this bad boy.
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Yes, the original Tesla Roadster right there.
Oh Baby.
This is the same color as the one that Zach, Jerry
and everything have, the exact same type of red.
I'm curious the VIN number on this.
Oh, that's number two.
That's the second one ever made
off the assembly line right there.
Number two, wow.
I wanna see the Next generation Roadster and the Cybertruck.
But I know they're here, I've seen pictures of them here,
I just don't know exactly where they are here.
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(laughs) Found it, Next Generation Roadster, we found it.
I have ridden inside of this thing
on opening night, that was 2017.
We're now in 2022, this thing is still here, not produced.
I'm hoping they announce something of it tonight
but realistically, it's probably gonna be 2023 or 2024
for this guy, but I really, really want it in my garage.
We also have this semi-truck is here.
And last but not least we do have the Cybertruck.
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So today I published a video
with the Hummer EV that I rode in last week.
And one funny thing about it is that
it has three windshield wipers on it
which is a lot of windshield wipers.
Well, the Cybertruck has
the biggest one windshield wiper you've ever seen.
It goes across the entire thing.
I don't know if that's what's gonna be
on the production model but I hope so.
But important to know it is not
the first Tesla that's had one windshield wiper.
The original Roadster has one wiper
in the middle that goes across.
This one's on the side and goes down,
I really wanna see it in action someday.
I keep going back and forth.
I'm like, "Yes, I love the Cybertruck"
then I'm like, "No, it's really weird looking".
And then when I see it in person, I'm like, "Okay
I kind of want it, I kind of do want it, it's really cool".
Not sure what is to be of this, but someday
we might have the AI bot.
It's actually much smaller than I thought.
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I got up on the AI bot right next to him
I'll put the picture up here.
But then they kicked me off.
There was like 20 people that went, then when I went up
I'm the one that got kicked off.
This music is really loud
I don't even know if you can hear me.
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It is a full on rock concert here, it's amazing.
There are people so deep.
There's no way I'm getting next to the stage
but I do have a purple VIP badge.
I'm not sure how I got this,
and I think it enables me to go in this upper level area.
So let's see if we can get up into
the VIP area and feel so fancy.
We're in, we're in the VIP area.
Oh Baby VIP, very important person here.
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The VIP area is filling out with people.
I don't belong up here, I am not a VIP.
One person that I just recognized is Beeple, B-E-E-P-L-E.
He is the one that a year ago sold his NFT
for 69 million dollars.
That's right, he started the entire phase and the run
of NFTs by selling that one NFT at Christie's Auction House.
Yeah, I definitely don't belong on stage here
but I am grateful to be here.
Elon should be coming out any moment now.
I'm hoping there's some surprises
and some other things that are happening tonight
but this event is definitely a hundred times bigger,
and I would say better than any other Tesla event
that I've been to over the years.
There are a bunch of drones flying around outside
making shapes of things and it's super trippy.
I actually wish I was outside at this moment.
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I Love that he's in the OG Roadster, I love it.
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- Welcome to Cyber Rodeo. (crowd cheering)
So we're gonna talk about past, present and future.
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California's great, we're continuing to expand California
but we ran out of room and so we needed a place where
we could be really big and there's no place like Texas.
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If you look fully on the side, it's taller than
the Burj Khalifa, that's to scale.
This year is all about scaling up,
and then next year there's gonna be
a massive wave of new products.
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We are gonna smash the window again.
(crowd cheering)
- I didn't bring a hammer this time.
- I had a fantastic time tonight, I love you guys.
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- Everybody is clearing out to go watch the firework show.
We are in Texas so this does look like a stampede
so I guess it makes sense.
This is a great breakdown of-
Oh my gosh, fireworks, look at that.
Madness out there, wow.
Everybody's looking at the fireworks,
I'm over here admiring the 4680 battery pack
because this really is a breakthrough.
Every single car that comes out of this plant right here
which is the largest manufacturing plant in the world,
is going to have these 4680 cells.
This is what the pack will actually look like.
This is how many batteries are inside
of one Model Y pack right there, strung up,
and then here are the ribbons.
Each one of these ribbons that goes up
is the inside of this just wrapped up inside of one cell.
I'm seeing what's inside the batteries
without even taking it apart.
So, thank you Tesla for doing my job tonight.
So right now I'm standing
at the end of the battery assembly line.
So they go through this as a cell and they go through
and get put into the structural pack,
it is smashed together and basically this giant presser,
this giant machine right here picks up the final pack
and moves it over, and then the line takes it downstairs
where they then take it, get everything ready
and then stick it together to the car
like we saw down below.
Elon said a few things tonight that I really liked.
One of them is,
this is the most advanced manufacturing facility
in the world, for sure with Tesla.
At Fremont where they make cars, he showed an image
where it shows all the cars and the different parts
and the different stages in different areas.
This one was made for a specific purpose, taking
all the learnings that they had
with Fremont to make it better here.
It's like a computer chip
and everything moves from one stage to the other
which should enable them to have 500,000 cars
per year produced just out of this factory right here.
And they still have room to expand.
It's machines building machines and production is not easy.
Production is really hard.
And these are the most advanced machines in the world.
There's a Giga press that does
a full body casting for their cars,
the first auto company to actually do that
and pretty much this entire floor is the battery area.
And at some point, once they are fully ramped up hopefully
by the end of this year, this plant will be
the highest producing battery plant in the entire world.
Check out the Longhorns on the Model Y (laughs).
This isn't just a random Model Y,
this is actually the Model Y that is towing
the different trailers that move people everywhere.
It's been about an hour since the show ended
and you still got the petting zoo open.
So party's not over 'cause Elon just got done talking,
it's just continuing to go on.
There's a random cactus farm here.
If you learned anything
from my Hummer video, I liked cactus.
They even have a tattoo parlor here, a legit tattoo parlor.
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It's hard to tell you how tall that really is,
but you got the giant Tesla coil
and all of these people holding up sticks towards it.
I'm not sure why they're holding up sticks
maybe it's gonna shock them, I don't know.
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There's Elon's brother, Kimbal.
They've got a band on the stage.
They've got basketball shooting over here,
win stuffed animals, get tattoos, lots of cowboy hats.
This is a party.
- Whoa. (air quivering)
(bell rings) (crowd cheering)
- Well, I am leaving the Gigafactory now.
I'm in a giant parking lot where everybody went.
It's a huge traffic jam to go out.
And on the other side of the Gigafactory
which is really far away
they told me the Ridesharing is on this side.
So I just came to this side.
The security people don't know what Ridesharing is.
I might get home, not that organized
as far as people moving, but what do you expect?
This is a Tesla event.
It looks nice and shiny inside but they probably threw
a lot of it together over the last week or so.
So anyway, I should be able to find my way back home
and hope you guys liked seeing
what's inside of the Gigafactory in Austin.
I thought it was pretty amazing.
Best event that Tesla has done so far that I've been to.
I've been to probably seven events so far
and I'm gonna find my way home now.
Thanks for watching.
(arcade thumping)
Whoa, that's loud.
(mimics) I bring you love.