Giga Berlin Giga-Fest
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0:17Elon MuskIt's only showing up there.
0:26Elon MuskAll right, so this is. We're building.
0:32Elon MuskThis thing, the model line.
1:04Elon MuskYeah. What's showing here is not matching that. That's why it's weird. This thing is not working.
1:17InterviewerYou can do it.
1:18Elon MuskThe second height bathroom. That's a 400 Reich fighter.
1:30Elon MuskYes, whatever.
1:38Elon MuskYeah, exactly. Safest car in the world.
1:46Elon MuskZieran messi.
2:36Elon MuskThe arvited Hobben.
2:45Elon MuskHere in the Grunheider or Gans Deutschlandhaven is Zuhar behindruken.
3:05Elon MuskGift as fuel sulphur the volunt was here turn inspirator this helped fill and dunk another buffer water von Giga Berlin Brandenburg diesel party is for off.
3:36Elon MuskSh, sh, sh, sh. Does presenter auto masterpick command also Mark Aud.
4:13Elon MuskUniversity stage glass.
4:20Elon MuskSo anyway, so yeah, look. All right, Tesla's mission. I see German over there in English here. So already a little bit.
5:07Elon MuskSo we need to scale dramatically electric vehicles. So what this factory is about is creating high volume, affordable electric cars. And hopefully also battery packs, maybe solar. But generally the overarching goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.
5:31Elon MuskThat's what this whole place is about. And we intend to have a beautiful factory that's in harmony with the surroundings and helps accelerate the world's transition to a sustainable energy future, which is what we all want.
5:55Elon MuskThat's why we're building the Model Y. And it's. Yeah, it's a great car. Obviously tried it out. So it'll be lots of other cars. Yeah, lots of interesting products coming from Tesla.
6:11Elon MuskSo, yeah. Cybertruck. Cybertruck is big. It's big. It's.
6:23Elon MuskCybertruck is n ein automobile. Yeah, it's big. So. But maybe we. I don't know, maybe we can get a special, I don't know, permit. But. Or, or maybe make a smaller one or something.
6:40Elon MuskI don't know. We'll try it. You know, we'll try to try to bring it here, if possible. So.
6:50Elon MuskAnd okay, well, you can certainly, you know, petition the regulators to allow it. We would, we would be glad to bring it here if they would let us do it.
7:02Elon MuskSo maybe it can be classed as like a special like truck or something like a. I don't know, there might be some way to do it, but if there is, we'll do it.
7:13Elon MuskAnd there'll be other interesting vehicles and products from Tesla that I think are really exciting. So I need to get around to that electric leaf blower that I promised.
7:27Elon MuskThat would be nice. So, yeah. Pardon me. Oh, the baht. Yes, the bot. Yeah, we'll see the bot. Be interesting to see how that goes. Optimus Subprime.
7:48Elon MuskOh, that's coming. Yeah. Platinum Europe should be coming probably next quarter. I think that'd be cool. Yeah,
8:09Elon MuskYeah, that sounds about right. Sounds about right. Well, there's going to be a special crimson, but there's the, the way that you do the colors I think is kind of important.
8:25Elon MuskYou need to have a multi layer paint system that's going to be designed into the paint. The paint shop has to. You have to build it in. So it's a very multi layer, multi layer paint.
8:38Elon MuskIt's more than just the color, basically. It's a. You want dimensionality to the paint which you can only really get if you have multiple layers. So anyway, more about this stuff.
8:50Elon MuskWe'll obviously do recycling. And the batteries, we expect to last a very long time. Ultimately the materials can be recycled basically infinitely. So we're expecting to have on the order of 12,000 jobs, maybe more.
9:08Elon MuskIn fact, I'm a little worried we won't be able to hire enough people. So we really kind of need great talent to come here from all around Europe or anywhere and help us create the new future.
9:32Elon MuskAnd we will obviously replant many more trees than we removed, use the minimum amount of water. That has been a big thing, really. Our factory uses very little water.
9:49InterviewerSo.
9:51Elon MuskAnd then it's just a 30 minute train ride to Berlin. We're actually going to be building a train station where you can literally, just ironically for a car company, you know, it's like take the train.
10:02Elon MuskYou can also take a car, that's fine too. So there's going to be. There's already a train station, but it's quite small. We're going to build a train station that's right on the property and you just get off the train walking in here.
10:14Elon MuskIf you're living in Berlin or drive here, whatever you prefer. Exactly. But you exactly need to bicycle here. You could get a catapult and a BASE jump parachute. My personal favor.
10:37Elon MuskAnd then we're going to have graffiti murals all throughout the factory and on the outside and everything. So I think that's going to be super cool. We've got some of them already.
10:53Elon MuskAnd we're even going to have a beer.
11:16Elon MuskSorry, what's what? Oh, fc. Yeah. Well, we need to make sure it's working well in the US and frankly, FSD Beta is somewhat overfit for California because engineering is mostly in California, so need to make sure it's working well there and then it's Got to be obviously confirmed that it works well here then we've got to prove it to the regulators.
11:44Elon MuskSo I mean I think next year sometime is quite likely. So it's looking good. I think like the FSD can drive me from work to home with zero interventions and some of these routes are very complicated.
12:02Elon MuskSo you know, I think it's, it's looking very good. So probably short answer FSD which will be beyond beta. I think it's looking highly likely for, to be in Europe next year.
12:23Elon MuskYeah, it's really quite good. In fact the tricky thing with the full self driving is that it can often work so well that you get complacent and so and then it can, you know, maybe not you get this difficult region where if it's not working out well you pay attention but it's working moderately well.
12:45Elon MuskMaybe you point is we need to make it work perfectly, as close to perfectly as possible. Much lower probability of injury than a person in, you know, across the board.
12:54Elon MuskAnd it's good, it's almost there. So I feel really good about it. Sorry I'm not DJing but Boris Brecke is.
13:17Elon MuskI think my safety score is, I think it's actually, I don't know, probably pretty good. I haven't looked at it but I think it's probably okay. I mean I like techno, EDM stuff.
13:31Elon MuskIt was quite good. I mean I like a wide range of music to be fair. So everything from classical to techno to you name it. So yeah. Any other questions from the audience or from elsewhere?
13:54Elon MuskPardon me.
14:00Elon MuskSo it's hard to hear unfortunately. I think there may be some questions that we are gathering. Giga for Tesla Model 3 please.
14:14Elon MuskSorry.
14:21Elon MuskPlaid is used castings for the corner nodes of the car so. And has always used aluminum castings for the corner nodes of the car but will not use full body castings.
14:37Elon MuskModel Y uses a full body rear casting and we'll soon use a full body front casting as well. So it's pretty cool. Cybertruck will actually have an even bigger casting because the truck bed so it's going to have probably an 8,000 ton press or something like that.
14:54Elon MuskIt's pretty wild. So hey guys, this is the key people so if you want to ask some questions maybe introduce yourselves. Hi, I'm Andre, welcome and I'm responsible for the vehicle manufacturing part of the factory.
15:25Elon MuskYeah also warm welcome from my side. I'm Heiko and I'm doing the exciting power training.
15:36InterviewerMaster
15:39Elon Muskon March Standard and Vicum here for the digger factory.
15:56InterviewerHello.
16:15InterviewerSo going to read out questions now that have been sent in the meantime to us and that you're like, feel free to still send them to Tess or Twitter and we'll just try to answer the most in the time the Berkshum was Hooper was thanks to Iva Dol the fact she too was great.
16:40InterviewerWhat do you think about Germany?
16:43Elon MuskI answered that.
16:49Elon MuskI mean obviously I like Germany or otherwise. I mean actually speak louder than words and since we're doing this cool thing here, you know. Giga Berlin, Brandenburg Obviously I'm a big fan of Germany, no question.
17:06Elon MuskSo you know, I'm really excited about the potential here and yeah, I think we have just a great, great factory, great engineering team and yeah and have a good time doing it.
17:18Elon MuskSo I think it's working out well. Yeah.
17:38InterviewerMy son wants to apply for a job but only finishes school in February next year. Can he already apply?
17:45Elon MuskYeah, absolutely. We're definitely going to be looking for a lot of people. So this factory is going to grow and really needs. So it's like a giant cybernetic collective so it needs a lot of people and definitely apply or just go on the website and apply for sure, anytime.
18:05Elon MuskIt's fine.
18:13InterviewerWhen do you expect to start production?
18:16Elon MuskWell, we're aiming to start production in a few months, basically November or December in terms of and hopefully deliver our first cards in December. But startup production is kind of the easy part.
18:31Elon MuskThe hard part is reaching volume production. So production is just incredibly difficult. That's why I say like prototypes are easy, production is hard and so from the point at which we start making cars, it will take longer to reach high volume production than it took to build a factory.
18:51Elon MuskIt's really difficult.
19:31InterviewerWhere will battery cell come from until the cell actually here in Gruyenheide is done.
19:37Elon MuskYeah. So for initial production will be coming from outside of Europe, you know, most likely from Tesla China until we have the cell factory here in operation. But we are aiming to have the cell factory reach volume production by the end of next year as well as to reach volume production, you know, in general for this whole factory by the end of next year.
20:09Elon MuskSo volume production would be in excess of 5,000 parts per week and hopefully closer to 10,000. And yeah, so but like I said, it's the beginning of production is not as important.
20:23Elon MuskLike starter production is nice but volume production is, is the hard part and it just takes an immense amount of work and we're gonna need just a lot of talented, hard working people to get there.
20:35Elon MuskIt's super, super difficult. I can't I can't emphasize that enough. Initial production, easy volume production. Hard, very hard.
21:20InterviewerWhat are you planning in future for your location here in Gunheide and for Tesla as a whole?
21:28Elon MuskWell, our overarching goal is to try to replace 1% of the global fleet of vehicles per year. So that's, there's about, there's about 2 billion cars and trucks in the world, so we want to try to get to 20 million per year to replace 1% per year.
21:45Elon MuskAnd yeah, I think there's a lot of, like a lot of interesting car models coming out in the future. The Tesla product roadmap is extremely compelling. Yeah, so, but we don't want to talk too much about future products except that I think they're very exciting.
22:18InterviewerHow you, will you guarantee energy supply for the factory and will you for example, install pv?
22:24Elon MuskYeah, absolutely. We're going to put PV on the photovoltaics on the roof of the factory and maybe on the ground as well. And so our goal is to have 100% renewable energy for the cycling.
22:48InterviewerWill you also install superchargers at the factories?
22:53Elon MuskNo, no, of course we will. Yes, definitely.
23:19InterviewerThis is kindergarten for employees.
23:26Elon MuskA lot of details here. Yeah, we'll, we'll have a kindergarten. We'll certainly take care of people who have families and whatnot. So yes, I'm sure for children.
24:16InterviewerWhen will we have solar roof in Germany?
24:20Elon MuskHopefully next year.
24:34InterviewerDo you invest in further nature protection projects in Brandenburg?
24:38Elon MuskYeah, absolutely, yeah, of course, yeah, we've had.
25:06Elon MuskAdvisory.
25:07InterviewerHector,
25:42InterviewerWhat can you do to make cell production more sustainable?
25:47Elon MuskWell, cell production I think is actually quite sustainable and especially long term you can just recycle the batteries. So you don't really need to do incremental mining. Once the, once the fleet is converted to electric, then very little incremental mining is needed.
26:05Elon MuskAnd I think most, the vast majority of cells will be iron based and there's lots of iron in the world. So it's really. And lithium is extremely common. So the main ingredients of the most common form of lithium ion are extremely, there's not a real limitation.
26:25Elon MuskThey're quite easy to get. Nickel for that long range vehicles is a little more difficult than iron actually. 10 times more difficult technically. But I think nickel will really be used a lot before long range cars and for aircraft and then everything else will be iron based.
26:51Elon MuskAnd then yeah, lithium is extremely common. So there's really no, I wouldn't worry too much about the, you know, I think it's from a primal standpoint, pretty straight, pretty straightforward I mean, there is in cell phones and laptops, there's a lot of cobalt used, which is.
27:09Elon MuskThat's a more challenging situation. But it tells that we use almost. No, no cobalt. And in the iron chemistry packs, we used none at all.
27:55InterviewerCan't you make the entire car in one cast?
28:05Elon MuskIt's not. It's not impossible, but I'm not sure you'd want to do that, because most of a car, the upper portion of a car is glass, and so it's actually a small amount of metal in the upper portion of the car.
28:21Elon MuskNot impossible to cast. But I'm not sure you'd want to. Yeah, exactly. Just cast the doors and chip them off or something. So, yeah, it's not impossible, but I think it's probably unwise.
28:42Elon MuskAnyway, I think everyone will take a couple more questions.
28:47InterviewerSo.
28:58InterviewerWhat innovations are you most proud of in Giga for the environment?
29:04Elon MuskWell, I think we are going to have the front casting, and in volume production, we'll have front casting, the structural battery pack. This makes the car more efficient. And in general, we'll also be making the, I think, the most advanced battery cell here, the 4680.
29:28Elon MuskThe paint shop is also extremely good. It's like, I think, the best paint shop in the world. So this is a lot of great things, and there'll be more to come.
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30:55InterviewerTo which countries will Giga Berlin deliver its car then? As a last question?
31:02Elon MuskSure. The cars are meant to be delivered anywhere in sort of Greater Europe area, you know, so it's just obviously a lot more efficient environment if we don't put cars on ships and transport them halfway around the world.
31:18Elon MuskSo it's really, you know, anywhere in the Greater Europe. All right, Duncan, thanks a lot.
31:42Elon MuskIt's.
32:08Elon MuskThere.