DonaldBecker
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The CT casting building in Austin hasn't even started construction and the 8,000 ton press hasn't been built. Whereas the MY casting building already has 2 of the smaller (6,500 ton?) machines installed. One of them is pumping-out castings that are getting shipped somewhere. Paint shop has a lot of the equipment installed. It's pretty obvious the MY will be produced first.
Those castings might be for cybertruck production, or at least refining the tooling for it.
The "front casting" we've seen recently doesn't look as if it's for the Model Y. It might actually be for the CT.
There is video of the first Austin press dry cycling. It took three months for Fremont to have delivered parts from that point, and presumably some of that was refining the tooling.
The STØTEK melting furnace was delivered in February, suggesting that they plan on having the whole system operational much earlier than the rest of the factory.
I expect that Austin will be shipping castings to Fremont, but they might be stockpiling castings so they can do both Model Y production and CT prototypes simultaneously.