Gigafactory
Elon Musk Opens Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory With EDM-Fueled “Cyber Rodeo” Event
No one knows how to throw a company party quite like Elon Musk. An event called Cyber Rodeo marked the grand opening of Tesla’s new Austin-based Gigafactory, a site which is expected to employ 10,000 people. The factory, located in Travis Country, will play a key role in the future of the company. It will serve as the new corporate HQ for Tesla, and Musk himself expects the site will become the biggest cell factory in the world, according to the Austin American-Statesman. A development of this significance needs an equally epic opening party, which is exactly what the company delivered. The livestreamed event, which saw Musk showered in neon lights as he took the stage, was precluded by a shimmering show of coordinated drone technology. Scroll to Continue Recommended Artic...
Sven Väth Performs DJ Set at Elon Musk’s Tesla Gigafactory In Berlin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk enlisted electronic music legend Sven Väth to perform a DJ set at the grand opening of the Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin. Väth’s set went down in late February, east of Berlin in Gruenheide, where the factory was built. As his performance took place, crowds were shown new Tesla models via a neon-lit tunnel. His DJ set follows a huge rave that Musk organized at the site, aptly dubbed Giga-Fest, back in October prior to the factory’s opening. “Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending some time with Elon Musk again,” Väth wrote in an Instagram post. “I played some techno beats for his opening of the really gigantic GIGAFACTORY!!!” Väth and Musk are longtime friends. The pair were spotted together in 2020 after the German DJ ...
Elon Musk Hosts First “Rave Cave” Event at Tesla Gigafactory: Watch
Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory complex isn’t producing vehicles yet, but it did hold its first rave over the weekend. Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously quipped that he’d been considering whether various areas of the complex, including the solar panel-dotted rooftop, might be suitable for a “mega rave cave.” Now, with Giga Fest, he’s made good on his intentions. The county fair-style attraction featured arcade games, carnival rides, Tesla accelerator ride-alongs, and a marathon of DJ sets spanning the day from morning to sundown. The rave drew in an estimated 9,000 attendees mainly from the surrounding areas of Brandenburg and Berlin, Insider reports. Musk, a techno music enthusiast, and dance music producer himself, als...
