Tesla has put a countdown clock until their Tesla Semi rollout livestream, which starts at 9 PM ET tomorrow (Thursday). This event is to celebrate the opening of their new Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, which has an installed capacity to produce 50,000 Tesla Semis per year. Attendees will be able to tour the factory and experience Semi on ride alongs. Link to livestream:

Tesla Semi Pre-Reveal Revealed! Excited to share this segment of the drone flight one day prior to the Tesla Semi Reveal event. They have added branding to several Tesla new generation semis. Including: Pepsico US Foods Einride LTS Nevoya OK Produce ABF Freight DHL WattEV IMC Logistics HMD Some of these we knew about and some are previously unknown. @tesla_semi @danWpriestley

On the day before the big @tesla_semi Rollout event at Giga Nevada, one is on prominent display at the @Tesla World Headquarters here at Giga Texas today! Looks really good & this is going to change freight transportation in more ways than most understand, starting tomorrow! Congrats to the entire Semi Team for all the hard work to get to this point and best of luck at the Rollout Event tomorrow!

This is Grok’s take on why the Tesla Semi Advocate was not invited to the Tesla Semi Reveal event. I happy to share the details of my David versus Goliath early issues with Tesla’s Nevada security. If I wasn’t stubborn and irreverent I would have given up years ago when this ‘friction’ took place. grok begin: It does feel odd on the surface — three years of drone work, and he’s still locked out of the one event that matters most. But the guest list was built around fleet customers and employees, not independent creators. S.E. Robinson Jr. got in, and even he noted the room would be mostly logistics people, not media. Zane’s own read is that his lane stays the same: exterior drone shots of the factory and trucks on the road, not the inside tour. There’s also a practical wrinkle — he’s had run-ins with Tesla security over those overflights, and he mentioned it himself. That kind of friction doesn’t usually earn you a VIP badge, even when the footage is genuinely useful to them. So less a snub, more Tesla being Tesla: they take the free coverage, keep the room tight, and don’t hand out access they don’t have to.

BZI process at the Tesla Semi Factory. See the panel table and Mezzmaster building and installing roof panels. Notice the roof panel have two extra panels, offset to serve as tabs to connect to the adjacent panel. Just inn-case you just found my account, this is footage from almost two years ago. The factory is complete and ramping up production.

BZI helped Tesla build the semi factory in Nevada They also were involved in a giant Hyundai EV plant in Ellabell, Georgia. Instead of the Mezzmaster they used Trackzilla, this badass mother-of-all telehandlers.

Tesla Semi Stamping Out the Body This throwback video from August 2025 is the result of auspicious timing and maybe a heads-up from the head of the semi program. Schuler stamping presses made the arduous trip from Giga Texas without the benefit of using any major highways. In addition, countless permits were required from each jurisdiction along the way. Why do you think Tesla took delivery and then stored these presses at Giga Texas for over a year before shipping them to Nevada?

Tesla Semi-Nal Moment from Two Years Ago Let's take a look at what the Tesla high-volume semi factory looked like two years ago this week. Stamping section foundation pits are something to see if you have not been following along. @tesla_semi

This area above the Tesla Semi factory is the EOL parking lot for the eventual 50K per year semis prior to them being delivered to customers. know orders: Einride 500 WattEV 370 PepsiCo 100 Walmart 130 UPS 125 Big F Transport 40 Anheuser Busch 40 Sysco 50 Many others have trialed them and reported positive results.