Tesla Gigafactory Texas | March 29-30, 2024 | quick flyover + Boring Co. #prufrock machine @tesla

#Gigafactory Texas is an automotive manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas built by Tesla, Inc. A 2,500 acre facility along the Colorado River that produces Model Y and #Cybertruck.

#Prufrock is designed to “porpoise,” meaning it launches directly from the surface, mines underground, and re-emerges upon completion. This allows Prufrock to begin tunneling within 48 hours of arrival onsite and eliminates the need to excavate expensive pits to launch and retrieve the machine.

Prufrock is designed to tunnel at a speed greater than 1 mile per week, which is 6 times faster than The Boring Company's previous generation TBM (Godot+). This is still 4-5 times slower than a garden snail...but Prufrock is catching up!

Prufrock’s medium-term goal is to exceed 1/10 of human walking speed, which is 7 miles per day.