> Other car manufacturers have barely started exploring the possible use of these giga-presses Lets be clear here, tesla are doing this for the rear subframe:

> Other car manufacturers have barely started exploring the possible use of these giga-presses Lets be clear here, tesla are doing this for the rear subframe: https://electrek.co/2021/01/11/tesla-starts-production-model-y-massive-single-piece-rear-casting/ https://electrek.co/2021/01/11/tesla-starts-production-model... And they want to scale it up, from what I see to the whole bottom of the car. This seems like a big reaction from how they used to do things with a billion different fasteners. Now, I think why the other companies don't immediately jump on this is that making a die that big is really expensive, and I imagine high maintenance. Tesla will probably get away with it because they don't really care all that much about tolerance, so will run the die a lot longer than a safe manufacturer. Also, tesla don't actually make that many models so they only need a limited number of presses and dies to be effective.