Gigafactory Texas continues to include solar panels covering Tesla's self-inscription.

The solar array atop Tesla's newest manufacturing plant was captured on camera by drone pilot Jeff Roberts on Thursday, providing the best view yet of the factory's development. One of the biggest advertising platforms in the world, it will instantly inform everyone flying over Giga Texas on their way into or out of Austin International Airport, if it wasn't already known, what the building was used for.

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The undertaking is a development of the strategy for installing solar panels that Tesla announced in its 2020 Impact Report. When Tesla announced its plans to keep Gigafactory Nevada's roof covered in solar panels, it also indicated it will put arrays on its other Gigafactories and buildings, "such as our Fremont Factory, Lathrop plant, and Gigafactory New York." Tesla later said that it would cover the roof space of all of its new plants with solar panels, despite the 2020 Report's prediction that just a few select factories would do so. Tesla will go on installing solar panels with a 21,405 kW capacity as long as the project is "economically feasible" as of the end of last year.

Tesla anticipates that the solar panels at the Gigafactory Nevada will be fully installed by the end of the year. The solar project at Gigafactory Texas is still ongoing.

Model Y production started earlier this year at the factory, and deliveries started in April during the Cyber Rodeo event Tesla hosted at the facility. The factory created the first Model Ys constructed in the United States using the 4680 battery.