Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

What's Inside Tesla's Semi Factory? #tesla #elonmusk #elon #tech #factory

9 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief on‑site segment of Ashlee Vance’s YouTube tour of Tesla’s Semi production plant, three narrators highlight the factory’s striking light tunnel and the final General Assembly station. They emphasize the massive scale required for the Semi, the visual impact of the tunnel as a hallmark of a true truck factory, and Elon Musk’s philosophy of treating large‑scale manufacturing as an art form. The dialogue mixes awe with a light‑hearted question about whether a truck factory is authentic without such a tunnel.

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.