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Gigacasting 2.0: Tesla reinvents carmaking with quiet breakthrough
- xlazom00 3y agoAnd sometimes it cracks https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scary-cracks-in-gigacast-front-end https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scar...
- jfengel 3y agoThe language seems inconsistent. Is it press-forming, or is it die-casting? Or some kind of combination? If it's die-casting, do they have to temper the material after that? That seems a pretty impressive operation and a nifty bit of metallurgy. (I'm not an engineer, so I may be using the terms inconsistently myself. But I'd appreciate it if somebody who was an engineer could clarify that for me.)