26 September 2026 Tesla Lithium Plant Snapshots! The plant is looking pretty good today and the team here has made some massive milestones recently, with the Lithium Day even in July, the announcement that the LiOH monohydrate produced ere is now being used to make cathode materials at the Giga Texas Cathode plant and that the 4680s that are made from this material! Most of the roadways that were under construction on my July video are completed, with a few new ones here and there. I noted another new clearing being prepared too just to the side of the staging yard at the raw materials warehouse, so perhaps that next phase of construction is about to begin!  The new 4680s that use the LiOH from this plant are now featured in the @cybertruck the Cybercab and the newly-unveiled @tesla_semi … and who knows, they may play a big role with the upcoming Roadster, with that announcement coming up on 1 October! 4680s are also planned to be used in the upcoming @Tesla_Optimus robot, so perhaps this plant will be supporting some of that new product at some point in the future. This plant broke ground just over 4 years ago and to see it now operational and contributing to the Tesla mission is really special. Work remains ahead to eventually double the production size, add black-mass battery recycling capabilities and a whole bunch more. I hope you enjoy these snapshots from today’s drone flight!

26 August 2026 Giga Texas VIDEO … Plenty of production of Model Y’s,YLs, Cybertruck & Cybercabs coming out of the E factory exit! Outbound lot busy taking in more vehicles & shipping them out on trailer trucks. On the S bank of the Colorado River, crews were finishing work to pull a HDPE pipe under the river. The E Advanced Chip Fab foundation work continues with more heavily reinforced footings, GeoPiers & concrete pours. The lined water retention pond was getting some fill dirt placed on top of the liner. The W clearing near Tesla Rd continues grade work as crews are working to prepare for a future project. The Optimus factory continues growing larger & for the 1st time, crews are working on massive trenches for the underground water management loop.

26 years later, a reunion in the forest. Ronald Sakolsky and Yin Yuzhen plant a “friendship tree”— where $5,000 nurtured 50,000 trees, a friendship now grows anew. 🌳🤝