I think with the benefit of hindsight structural adhesives make things easier. Way easier to apply glue and clamp (or whatever the instructions are) than to we

I think with the benefit of hindsight structural adhesives make things easier. Way easier to apply glue and clamp (or whatever the instructions are) than to weld somewhere you can't see without a mirror or building a custom spot welder tip that replicates what the robot used in the factory. I also like that you can not ruin the paint around an area where you apply adhesive whereas welding usually cooks off the adjacent paint. This is very beneficial in environments with corrosion. Holy crap are the consumables expensive compared to welding though. > Things like saying you'd need proprietary filler to match the composition, that welds would be poison, etc. In reality it doesn't really make a difference. The nice thing is that the car OEMs are high enough volume that even if they use something exotic someone will come along with special consumables or procedures or procedures or whatever that makes it trivial to work with. I hope some other OEM's follow Tesla with the stainless and we get cheap weld backing tape as a result.