A new drone video features a high-speed tour of Tesla’s first European car factory, which opened to much fanfare in March.
The stunning drone video (below) zips through multiple locations — including parts of the assembly line — inside Tesla’s gleaming facility, which reportedly cost more than $5 billion to build.
Located near Berlin, Germany, and employing around 10,000 people, the Giga Berlin factory will produce around half a million Tesla Model Y vehicles annually once it’s operating at full capacity.
According to Electrek, crack drone pilot Ferdinand Wolf operated the drone. The Skynamic team member used a small cinewhoop-style quadcopter for the fly-through, a versatile aircraft designed especially for the kind of tight spaces and sharp turns that feature in the Giga Berlin video.
The fly-through ends with a dramatic aerial view of Tesla’s sprawling site, which covers an area of about 1.2 square miles.
In a separate clip (below) shared by Wolf on social media, viewers are treated to a drone’s-eye view of the moment Tesla chief Elon Musk performed broke into a surprise dance at the factory’s launch party a few weeks ago. It also shows Wolf piloting the diminutive quadcopter using a first-person-view headset and controller.
Unlike many of the awesome fly-through videos that have hit the headlines over the last year or so — like this one of a bowling alley in Minneapolis and another of Manchester City’s soccer stadium — Wolf’s video inside Tesla’s new factory features several scenes edited together rather than one continuous shot, but it’s no less impressive.
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