Having been on a tour of the Volvo plant in Sweden and one other years before most were born, the Tesla plant uses every available square inch of floor space. At every entry point there are parts staged ready to be entered onto the line. Again, because the tour cattle car snakes around and the fact that each line is currently dedicated to each model it is not always easy to re-figure where you are unless the guide clarifies. All stamping locations were silent. But everywhere we looked there were stamped parts ready for assembly.
The Sweden plant was easy to follow since it moved along like a ski lift line and models varied along the way depending on the feed based in computer punch cards
The robots were human in those days
. The only complete robotic action we were stopped to observe was a MS being shuffled from the end of one line to another by Ice Man and Wolverine (name of two robots) at the Tesla plant. Oh, and an S or X was taken from the last body grinding area where I saw the M3 up onto the line headed out for painting.
I wish I could do a better job here, but things just got scrambled. As we were driving Xena (our MX), out of the area enroute north a blue MX caught up waved and then fell back. That was a nice touch
It would be nice to do the tour two or three times in close sequence, but the tour guide probably never wants to see me again since I ask all the questions he cannot answer
Additionally, since this trip had way too many road bumps, my wife is threatening never to do another one
We did have breakfast at the Crater Lake Lodge which was nice. Clear blue skies with just a touch of snow accumulated here and there. FYI we were able to drive up and back down with sufficient killawats to be comfortable. The new onboard mileage tracking takes into elevatin changes down to the nats, well you get the idea. I was very impressed!
Okay, back home with still lots of jumping through hoops plugging holes from the trip, but still looking for some of that green I was asking about
Hey, if you ever see our plate ~ waterfall scene ~ 4 EARTH
Please say high!
