A glimpse inside Tesla's super secretive Gigafactory

even having experienced childhood in California, I'm understanding I'm not worked for this warmth.

We're 30 minutes or so outside of Reno, yet it feels like I'm on the sun. I can feel my sunscreen preparing off. Why the hellfire did I wear dark today?

It's alright; it's justified, despite all the trouble. I'm over here for a look inside Tesla's Gigafactory, days before its official excellent opening. I'll be one of the primary individuals to venture inside the working outside of the individuals who manufactured it. That is justified regardless of a slight sunburn, isn't that so?

The machine that manufactures the machine 
Tesla needs more batteries. Between the Model S, Model X, the up and coming Model 3 and its at-home sun based vitality stockpiling item, the Powerwall, pretty much all that they put their name on utilizations a battery. 
However, batteries like the ones Tesla needs are costly — and overwhelming. Regardless of the fact that Tesla could discover an organization in another nation fit for delivering the volume of batteries that it needs, simply getting them onto a freight ship and dispatching them stateside would make up a sizeable piece of the bill. 
In this manner, the Gigafactory. A gigantic, $5 billion structure smack spot amidst the Nevada desert, intended to help Tesla meet its battery needs. 
It's "a machine to manufacture the machines," as Elon Musk alludes to it.

A working work in progress

We enter on one side of the building — Section A, as it’s called.

To our left, row upon row of machines, racks and robotic arms responsible for assembling Powerwalls.

To our right, separated from the factory floor by just a hip-height dividing wall, are the designers. Their project? The rest of the Gigafactory.

You see, Tesla is moving into the Gigafactory as soon as each section — of which there are currently four in progress — is complete.

They’re working from the inside out, and it’s quite a sight to see. It’s like watching a robot build itself into a bigger, badder robot. Walking through the building is like viewing a timelapse; a gradient of construction.

Section A? Up and running, designers in place.

Section B? The walls are up and painted, but much of the clockwork — like two-story tall, gymnasium-sized machines that Tesla wouldn’t disclose the purpose of — are still being assembled.

Section C? Lifts, hardhats, painters and drywallers.

Section D? Raw steel beams as far as the eye can see.

When all is said and done, the Gigafactory will have the largest footprint of any building in the world.

Elon Musk takes press inside the Gigafactory for the first time

Tesla let the press into its giant new battery-producing plant, called the Gigafactory, for the first time Friday. 

Experts told Wired the factory will be necessary to power Musk's dream fleet of EVs and hybrids (the company's goal is 500,000 cars a year). Currently, Tesla's battery production is outsourced to Asia, a costly and slower option. The new domestic factory, however, is expected to cut costs by 30 percent and is a one-hour plane ride away from the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The 3,200-acre plant is located in Reno, Nevada.

Musk also told the BBC he wants to see more of these soon, "in Europe, in India, in China ... ultimately, wherever there is a huge amount of demand for the end product.

The factory was built in collaboration with Panasonic, which invested $1.6 billion. Robots will be responsible for most of the assembly inside the plant, streamlining Tesla's manufacturing process. 

They will be building every part of the electric vehicles, including the solar panels to power that production. Panasonic will bring the necessary raw materials, like lithium, by rail.

An arial view of Tesla's new Gigafactory

IMAGE: TESLA

As of now, the Gigafactory is about 14 percent completed, but is expected to produce 35GWh of battery power by 2018, more than the combined global production in 2014, according to the BBC. 

Only a few select news outlets have gotten a peek so far, but the general impression remains similar. It's very big, it's very powerful and could get even more so: Wired reports Tesla has purchased another 1,864 acres near their plot.