Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

Tesla's Biggest Factory Flex #automobile #tesla #factory #factorytour #tech

4 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief, informal walkthrough of Tesla's Gigafactory, two hosts comment on the striking "light tunnel" and the final General Assembly station, emphasizing how the factory’s design is meant to be visually impressive. They note that the station is oversized to accommodate the upcoming Tesla Semi, and repeatedly stress Elon Musk’s philosophy of turning factory construction into an art form, where cool aesthetics are as important as functionality.

Elon Musk has turned building giant factories into an art form.
This is awesome. Yeah, light tunnel. Yes. This is the last station at the end of General Assembly. And what we're doing here is our first check to make sure everything looks good.
Then this one had to be giant for the Semi.
Yeah, absolutely. If you're going to build it, make it cool.
Yeah. If your truck factory's light tunnel doesn't look like this, is it even a truck factory?
This is where Tesla employees should get married or something.