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It's not just casting. Right there in the second paragraph of the TFA: > Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presse
by ripjaygn 2y ago
It's not just casting. Right there in the second paragraph of the TFA:
> Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of the car’s underbody. On a typical vehicle, the underbody can consist of hundreds of individual parts.
Also, other car companies are copying Tesla.
> Japan
> In June 2023 Toyota announced that it was adopting casting technology for its electric vehicles.
> In 2023 Japanese auto parts supplier Ryobi announced plans to cast large electric-vehicle body parts and expects to reduce car body manufacturing costs by 20%.
> Volvo
> By November 2023, orders had been placed for two 9000-tonnes-force Giga Press machines for a new Volvo electric vehicle factory at Košice, Slovakia.
- neuralRiot 2y agoIf Tesla has been using the same design since 2017 with the stamping process, probably would run the same “gigacast” design until year 2100 to recoup the setup costs.
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- PinguTS 2y agoFunfact: it is not invention by Tesla and it is not that other OEM are copying. It is an Italian company, that provides that equipment. It would be like, TSMC would branding a new technology while ASML is actually doing the shit.
- kube-system 2y agoThat's a pretty decent analogy. However, there are innovations that are correctly ascribed to TSMC (and in this case, Tesla) for their use of those new tools. Often new innovations are a combination of clever tooling and a clever way of using those tools.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoTesla does this with everything about their cars that they don't invent. The biggest example to me was the Panasonic battery cells (and battery production line) that Tesla sold for years as their own innovation.