Satellite Photo of Mach-E Factory Taken 10 Dec 20. Which one is yours?

[Barno]

wait what's this...

This satellite shot only picks up the Space Whites.

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[Barno]

Also, at least now we know how many MMEs will fit on an average soccer field. Very important data.
Approximately 374.

How many MMEs does it take to piss off a Tesla fanboy? One, with a roof that stays put, and 19,999 with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Someone with more time on their hands than I do, can easily count the MME's in the picture and give us an estimate of how many are there. Cross-reference that with how many have been built, and we will have how many have left the barn.

There's a quick trick for doing that. Count the tires and divide by 4.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Wow, great info. Lots of items in there, as you pointed out. Surprised to 30 autoracks on-site already. I'd have thought those were in too short of supply to have 30 just sitting there waiting. Blows a bit of a hole in one of the theories about shipping difficulty.

It does look like that lot north Walmart has some MMEs parked in it, perhaps for truck-ship staging. Can tell by them being parked 3+ deep (means it's not employee parking).

And I see they did commandeer the soccer field!

Who do I pay $100 to get mine loaded into one of those 36 autorack cars? This is Mexico after all.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Someone with more time on their hands than I do, can easily count the MME's in the picture and give us an estimate of how many are there. Cross-reference that with how many have been built, and we will have how many have left the barn.

7.

 

[macchiaz-o]

There's a quick trick for doing that. Count the tires and divide by 4.

OK. I did that and got 1,588.75. Can you confirm?

 

[txaggies07]

Creating a slightly enhanced image now. I will upload it very soon.

 

[txaggies07]

Creating a slightly enhanced image now. I will upload it very soon.

Enhanced

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiOTUhsu7ZmrmLt_N6S90shxM8OsQw?e=cdpFRx

it is a laaaarge file. I did the edits on my phone remoted into my desktop. I can do a better job tomorrow when I am sitting at my desk with a proper monitor.

 

[VegStang]

So I'm curious, do the cars come off the line, go through the checklist, then go around the test track a few times before going to park to wait to ship?

 

[macchiaz-o]

Enhanced

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiOTUhsu7ZmrmLt_N6S90shxM8OsQw?e=cdpFRx

it is a laaaarge file. I did the edits on my phone remoted into my desktop. I can do a better job tomorrow when I am sitting at my desk with a proper monitor.

Wow. Nice job with that. This shows detail I simply couldn't see in the original.

And I kind of wonder about Waldo's back story now. Did you look closely in the yellow boxed area?

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What was he even doing on those train tracks in the first place?

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

Enhanced

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiOTUhsu7ZmrmLt_N6S90shxM8OsQw?e=cdpFRx

it is a laaaarge file. I did the edits on my phone remoted into my desktop. I can do a better job tomorrow when I am sitting at my desk with a proper monitor.

217 MB may be the largest JPG I have ever downloaded, literally.

 

[macchiaz-o]

217 MB may be the largest JPG I have ever downloaded, literally.

Go look for JPEG2000 imagery from US govt mapping sites.

 

[txaggies07]

217 MB may be the largest JPG I have ever downloaded, literally.

I have a better version after playing with it this morning that ups it to 230mb. However, the small improvement isn’t worth the time for y’all to redownload. Hopefully the version I posted works well for y’all.

 

[JamieGeek]

Has anyone done this math? (Note that these numbers are huge guesses)

3500 cars in the lot (from earlier in the thread)

15-20 cars a train car (a huge guess)

6 train cars on a spur 6 spurs (counted from picture)

so 120 cars on a spur
assume they all leave in one train
4 trains a day leave
So 15 cars * 6 *6 = 540 cars leave a train (that seems high)
4 trains a day means they could empty the lot in two days??

See these are wild numbers, perhaps someone could tweak them to more realistic ones (maybe 2 trains a day because it takes a while to load and hitch up?)

 

[dbsb3233]

Has anyone done this math? (Note that these numbers are huge guesses)

3500 cars in the lot (from earlier in the thread)

15-20 cars a train car (a huge guess)

6 train cars on a spur 6 spurs (counted from picture)

so 120 cars on a spur
assume they all leave in one train
4 trains a day leave
So 15 cars * 6 *6 = 540 cars leave a train (that seems high)
4 trains a day means they could empty the lot in two days??

See these are wild numbers, perhaps someone could tweak them to more realistic ones (maybe 2 trains a day because it takes a while to load and hitch up?)

I think it's more like 8 cars per train car. The MME is too tall to stack 3-high. And if you measure the length of a railcar in the sat photo and compare it to the MMEs parked end-to-end in the lot, you only get 4 per railcar (stacked 2 high). (I'd previously been saying 10 but that was from the old sat photo with Fiesta's on the lot.)

36 railcars x 8 = 288.

But remember that it takes quite a bit of time to load them up and secure them. There's also only so many autorack railcars in the system, and only so many trains running. There's a few dozen auto manufacturer plans in Mexico sill running, and they need them too. And they have to be empties and returned for the next run.

I have no idea how many they really have available, but I'm guessing one run per day is probably realistic with all that. That's a capacity of about about 2000/week if running 7 days/week. Figure a couple of days to get to somewhere like Texas or Kansas City. Sounds like they may be offloading many at those points and reloading to trucks. But there's only so many of those too.

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