Tesla executives plan to announce new developments at Gigafactory Texas on Tuesday, July 7. Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy shared the timeline during an interview with Tesla investor Herbert Ong and Jeff Lutz, and soon the full conversation will be released to the public.
Moravy told the hosts that “a week from Tuesday there will be some cool news about things happening around Giga Texas as part of the scaling effort”. Later, Ong noted he counted over 12 important items confirmed by the engineering leader. Now investors are watching closely, and $TSLA shares recently climbed over 8 percent to reach 411.84 dollars. The timing is key since it falls right between the early July Q2 delivery numbers and the Q2 earnings call scheduled for July 22.
A big announcement is coming from Tesla on Tuesday July 7th!
— Herbert Ong (@herbertong) June 29, 2026
Listen to Tesla’s Lars Moravy say “a week from Tuesday there will be some cool news about things happening around Giga Texas as part of the scaling effort”!
Our interview with Lars should drop tomorrow.
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What exactly is happening at the factory? Company filings and recent factory footage indicate a rapid scale-up for several future products at the Austin site. The Cybercab robotaxi program is currently active in the factory’s yellow section, and hundreds of the autonomous vehicles are moving through early production stages using a new unboxed assembly method. These cars lack steering wheels and pedals entirely. Before this recent push, Tesla removed chase vehicles from its local testing fleet and increased unsupervised robotaxi operations across Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
Optimus humanoid factory and new Roadster
Next door another massive project taking shape is the dedicated Optimus robot facility. Construction crews recently erected the first steel structures for this new building after finishing extensive land clearing work. The planned site will eventually reach a footprint nearly as long as the main factory itself. Elon Musk has predicted the humanoid robot could eventually become the most valuable part of the business, so any scaling updates carry weight for Wall Street.
Moravy and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen confirmed in a separate discussion that the next-generation Roadster will be built in Texas rather than California. Still early manufacturing plans are already underway for the sports car. Then there is the compute side, where Tesla is pouring resources into a massive GPU data center with new cooling systems at the Texas campus to support all these new products. This computing infrastructure processes the vast amounts of video data required to train the software behind both the cars and the robots.
All these projects point toward a busy second half of the year for the Texas factory team. The upcoming July 7 update should give everyone a much clearer picture of how fast these new product lines will actually move forward. And with the quarterly earnings call right around the corner, investors are ready to see how this aggressive physical scaling impacts the bottom line.
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