How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)
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- If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry-with specialized robots building slick electric cars in a factory straight from the future. That's where the battery-powered Model S is born.
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This is so cool!! It's amazing they can have one robot that does the seats *AND* and the windshields. Those are some tight spaces inside the car and yet it doesn't scratch the dash or upholstery.
come to MSIL, India sometime then you see what robots can actually do.... one robot doing spot welding, handling, sealing, merging. BTW they have more than 900 working robots in their plant
I imagine the pride these employees have in their work is not too far off from the early days of when we dominated the auto trade. This is unbelievable efficiency bordering on art. Very cool.
car that requires lithium batteries is a scam and "Tesla motors" is and insult to Nikola Tesla
@@MaximumEfficiency there innovating the entire industry, or more like the entire economy of the world
they're
@@MaximumEfficiencyThey're geometrically still wasting space
Its 2020 and this video still feel unreal. The robots , the pristine white factory , the scale of it ... I mean its just amazing. Elon Musk will be remembered in 3030 like we remember Einstein or Newton Today...
Why is everything Elon Musk involves himself with so badass? He's the real life Tony Stark.
Mike Rauch Jon Favreau actually sent Robert Downey, Jr. to spend time with Musk in the SpaceX factory prior to filming the first Iron Man movie so he could model his character off of Musk.
waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-man.html
Razvan Saftescu
Exactly my point.
Razvan Saftescu robert downey jr acts the same in all movies and in real life. i doubt his annoying overconfidence comes from this humble billionaire.
Richardo A. indeed. Favreau sent him to Musk, but Downey got the place wrong; instead he went to Microsoft and saw Ballmer. .
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Not related but; a documentary about Elon Musk in 40 years will seem like a sci-fi movie by today's criteria.
No he is not! Stop saying that, Elon is his own man. There are slight similarities but that is all.
Wow those robots are amazing. I've been spending my entire year in my programming class simply trying to make a robot complete a maze on its own. I can't even imagine the number of variables required to ensure such precision manufacturing.
They most likely have the robot follow the process as guided by a human. Then once the routine is programmed, they have the robot do it faster.
3:32
This blows my mind.
The amount of programming this took.
The programmers must be buried out back with a memorial to them.
The robots will eventually do the programming too...
DaManBearPig *yes*
Screw the car I want the robot.
No, you want the robot to screw the car. Literally.
Or a sexy robot to screw you.
You are void of a sense of humor.
It's a Kuka, Fanuc are way better. If you want a sexy orange, ABB.
Wolf SurvivalX ahahhahahaha
Such an awesome process!
i want to make a car whats that carrer called anyone
Aa
car that requires lithium batteries is a scam and "Tesla motors" is and insult to Nikola Tesla
@@MaximumEfficiency What kind of energy do you think they should have?
@@candyazz28 electric, hydrogen, thorium, or compressed air
First commercial I have wanted to see in a long time.
Also, remember that someone else (like many of my Electrical Engineering classmates at school aspire to) has to design those robots too! :D AND someone had to physically BUILD those robots... and then someone else had to design the robots that help build those, etc., etc. ^_^
someone else has to provide the initial steel rolls they start with too.
Groman a German robotics company, Tesla bought them a few years ago
Soon the first human to touch the car will be the driver...
+pablof59 you mean the passenger musk is aiming for self driving car production within the decade
+Maarten van Rossem Lezingen so basically communism. sorry to say no work = no money where will you get the money to go sky diving.
+Maarten van Rossem Lezingen Well, except for all those people who have to cook your burgers and make your cappucino - that's not automated yet. What is happening is that the only jobs left are - as +Felix Balajadia says - are grunt jobs.
and what will we be buying these things with? Uber fares?
Maarten van Rossem Lezingen where is the economy then - buy, sell, trade, barter = it ain't "free." As it is, the economy is hugely concentrated in the upper echelons, what will the slaves do for a crust?
I would be DAMN proud to work there too....I have to settle for wearing the T-shirt for now
5 years later....5 years after investing every dime I could.....Tesla made me a millionaire.....THANK YOU ELON AND TESLA!
Main reason why Tesla operates in the States is due to the fact it requires almost no low level skill work. All work needed is medium and high skilled meaning mechanics and engineers.
Do you have WhatsApp
@@richardappiah5832 Why would you ask him that? 🤣
@@princeduties2991 why not?
@@fridge713 Its weird af
Ford gm and Toyota Nissan and dodge build cars in USA
im watching this in my tesla, eating a cheeseburger while charging lol
doodskie999 lol
Sitting around waiting for a charge. That sounds so horrible, glad I've never had to do that while gassing up.
kainblood1000 Apparently you can't afford it.
It really isn't bad. We live in a time where entertainment is all around us. You aren't just standing around doing nothing, you're on your phone checking your email or watching a youtube video or catching lunch.
doodskie999 l
this was definitely an ad i did not skip
2024: Factory has 600 robots, 15 employees.
2044. Factory has one employee. And it's the supreme consciousness of the Whole.
Quite possibly. The problem is to get the supreme consciousness to buy cars.
100 jobs taken by a robot, are created 1000. Don't forget, someone needs to make the robots!
If technology created more labor requirement than it saved, no one would bother with it.
Sure, there will be jobs in the robot industry but they will be few compared to the amount of labor saved by robots, and adequately sophisticated robots would be able to make their own copies with minimum maintenance. To iterate: this is a good thing. People don't need jobs per se; they need food, clothing, housing, transport, items of vanity. In a largely automated economy, most of these can be easily provided if the society changes to accomodate for the possibility where the labor of most people is pretty much unneeded. And it will have to, because it's hard to ignore something as obvious.
i work in the plant area.I have seen more than 15 different employees with tesla uniforms on in 2013
I watch this incredibly high right now, and wow,.I feel like Im in the future
I can’t imagine the complexity inside, so much engineering
I passed a Tesla on the street while grabbing lunch. Was just noticing how remarkable the quality of the fit and finish and then remembered that this was a product made in the USA. It just blew my mind that I completely forgot that this superb thing that the world is going crazy over is made in the USA! I wish we could exhibit this type of quality and spec on more products and make them here!
Yilmaz Arda we used to, but we're slowly regaining that with the new methods of robotic computer automation, 3D printing and skilled human labor.
I agree with you. I think a combination of automation and skilled labor is key but would regret their not being a stronger drive toward skilled human labor. I import consumer goods (apparel and housewares) from China and India and there is no reason why we can't produce high-spec goods domestically. We won't be able to compete with mass-market products until we can resolve the cost of labor, but there is no reason we can't sell luxury goods across the world! Dealing with production in Asia these days is a nightmare because the markets change so quickly now. This is a better time than ever to adapt to domestic.
Robots are taking over. Watch Amazon's factory robots. Autonomous cars, etc. Soon too man people won't have a job. Slaves to the system.
its wierd seeing this on UA-cam because I work there and see all that first hand everyday 😂
They have a robot to replace you now.
i see many Comments of People complaining there are no many Workers assembling the Cars because Robots do everything...
YES True, Robots do all the Construction/Assembly, but who do you think maintains those Robots Functional?
The use of Robots doesn't kill jobs, it optimizes production output and shifts jobs to a different function.
Instead of having a bunch of workers flipping Wrenches to tighten Nuts all day for $14 an hour, they hire Trained Technicians for $20 that know how to Program and Fix the Machines.
So rather than having 3000 People building 10 Cars a Day, you pay 3000 People to make sure the Robots keep Working nicely and make 150 Cars a Day.
in any case you employee about the same amount of People, the Productivity on the other hand increases a lot... the other Option would be to hire 10thousand People to obtain the same Productivity of the Robots, but at that point the cost of Labor would be too high making the Cars too expensive, thus forcing to move production to Countries where labor is cheap.
I'd rather keep the Robots and make stuff in America by hiring a good Maintenance Crew that keeps all the Machines running flawlessly all day long!
Plus someone's gotta maintain and fix the robots
The problem with this is you dont need that much technician to maintain and fix robots or whatever failing in the system. 30 people $14/hour each painting Tesla frame for example. That will cost tesla more than $700K per year
Now a gigantic painting robot cost $500 upfront, paint more car in a day, work overtime, stable and robust, only need a team of 5 technician to maintain. Now that is the problem, the team of thirty car painter will be laid off for 5 technician and a gigantic painting robot.
But anyway, robots will make things cheaper so maybe a Tesla will only cost a $5 coupon.
One guy can maintain multiple robots where those multiple robots killed jobs. It's good for the company bad for the people losing jobs.
Robots absolutely do kill jobs, the same way all the previous inventions like tractors and conveyor belts killed jobs, as they make it so that less humans are required overall. The problem with modern automation is it targets almost everyone's fields and we can't stop it, and this is why we need a UBI.
The industrial revolution enabled the over population of the world with industrial processing of foods ECT. All seems to be falling apart at the seams cause now workers aren't needed but consumers are. When something doesn't make sense its bullshit.
Damn I wish I were rich. I would own all 3 models, S, 3, X......S3X.
justin k we own the model 3 and X, missing the model S :( working on it
Roadster and Semi now
That's why they use robot to optimise so the price can go down
@@lartorgames Doesn't matter if your wages go down by 100% because there are increasingly more people than jobs.
S3X + Y
Amazing technology,so precise and perfect.Kudos to the men who designed these machines
Is like and so similar BYD factory in China.
¿Amazing made in China?.
Groman a German robotics company, Tesla bought them a few years ago
This factory created from scratch is more genius than the Tesla car.
+Roi Kazakh German Robotics
nothing new here, all car company's build vehicles this way, Tesla is not doing anything unique. Might as well be f150's, plant looks the same.
It's an old factory by Toyota and GM called NUMMI, we have the same C-carriers and paint booths for the paint shop where I work (TMMTX at San Antonio TX). They just added their own robots and equipments
I see nothing new in manufacturing. Look at any automobile assembly line. This is just a duplication.
@@cyclotronbxl is that what tesla is using?
+WIRED If you're driving a Tesla and it gets stolen, is it now called an "Edison"?
heh
Haha as a electrical student I found ur joke very funny.
I'm pretty sure some people shouldn't get it
This is a superb joke my friend . Sad, true , funny and cynical ..
Getting Edisoned... love it!
clever!
Tesla Model S is the most beautiful car I've ever seen
Nick why can't she have that opinion? if you don't agree then that is your opinion, doesn't mean that others need your glasses!
Coolest factory I've ever seen.
And this was eight years ago. Look for the drone footage flying inside Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Brandenburg.
This is a great display of technology and how it's shaping the growth for the auto industry. I am super impressed by the use of tech here
Good video! 👍
Electric cars are coming. Other manufacturers are trying to get on board that train before it leaves the station. Tesla has already left the train and is on the road. In ten years, it will be one of the best-selling cars in the USA, if not the world.
In ten years, electric cars will be gone and hydrogen in. Cause, well, batteries arent good for the enviroment.
Look up the process of making batteries
CatlinCustoms
When did anyone say that was not polluting? You're trying to change the subject from the pollution of making hydrogen and the heat pollution from everything.
Yes, from making, charging and discharging batteries, too. You cannot make any electricity without polluting. The real problem is too damn many people using energy.
True
CatlinCustoms
Unfortunately, there is NOT an app for that. :)
0:53 Love this moment
I used to marvel at Japanese manufacturing. I am glad Tesla manufacturing is making American car great again.
One of the interesting things about this plant is the investment in white painted ceilings and the clean polished floors. Both of which are likely carry overs from Elon Musk's other business, namely, SpaceX - where "clean rooms" are an absolute requirement for spacecraft assembly. The white ceilings also help to distribute plant lighting as well.
The robots are red. Most workers are red and black. Everything else is white or aluminum, or later, painted car parts. Safety.
Those robots are so amazing!
Nice video....showing the manufacturing process....
Amazing, its really interesting seeing how they are manufactured.
amazing machines
This is how the car of the future is made.
Also, that's how -everything- of the future will be made soon enough.
@@Reirainsong 5 Years = nothing changed drastically.
that is really cool, thanx for smart people, you are just motivating us
Amazing! It's so cool to see how my car is built.
This is fascinating!
Robots don's complain about a bad back, take sick leave/breaks, or demand a union rep to dispute a manager chiding them for slacking off.
+Yuri Andropov true and no one gets hurt :)
+Yuri Andropov Роботы не курят травку(марихуану).
+tgipri в точку
Yuri Andropov Роботы не заводят домашних животных, например собак и не водят их потом на работу с собой! Пёсиков таких как у вас на аватаре! Да- да!.... Ладно я просто шучу)))))
+Gme1z Build robots
U get goose bumps by just watching those robots...
The use of the same robot for multiple jobs is something I’ve not seen in automotive assembly. Impressive!
I wonder if the robots have a robot union to ensure they are properly compensated to raise their little electronic/pneumatic families? I hope so, it would be a shame if they were being exploited......
+deadmanprodinc "I Robot"....Don't want to tick them off.
+rookie1024 Yah, maybe we get them to build it for us ....first!
deadmanprodinc ...and pay for it by blackmailing them!
They do, it's called Skynet.
Well in Saudi Arabia they gave citizenship to a robot, so you never know how far stupidity can go
This is amazing! Im so proud of the human race and the things we can achieve.
Im a Fox haha right so amazing that create something that will eliminate humans.
Watching this as a mechanical engineer who studied robotics and automation, this is amazing.
most interesting and unique part about Tesla is missing on this video: how the batteries are installed and how functions like self driving are tested... anyway nice video.
Wow, nice to see, how this car is made ;)
This video is amazing.
Alexei that is so bloody cool
Interesting that this is getting posted in news sources and shown in my feed, eight years later...in 2022. So much has changed!
How awesome are those robots!!
Wow this factory is so cool!
Musk IS MY mentor
u must be the only one
Grace Kelly proud to be the only one, i an waiting for the solar and wall battery btw
Lol, how is that bullshit coming?
This is superflously great and out of this world!
Everyday I am more amazed at this company
I love Tesla
I want one of these cars.
Потрясающе!
Absolutely amazing.
I wonder how Nikola Tesla the man itself would feel about how great his inventions have helped into our lives.
Impressive ♥️♥️♥️
This is amazing! This is how technology is revolutionizing both the auto and manufacturing industry! Amazing!
And that was 8 years ago. Imagine how far ahead they are now
For those who said "Tesla is built in a garage with bunch of kids, its not a real car", here you go
Tesla continues to show the "Big 3" how it's done in the modern world.
Brandon Zeone II not just the big 3. Japan and Germany also.
Максе ти сервіс розроби та покращ! Сто з'являється багато випадків коли або сервіс не відповідає критеріям авто або зовсім відсутній,і тоді власник авто залишається сам на сам зі своїми проблемами
مدهش
Amazing
Absolutely amazing, I hope that there is a more affordable model soon. Tesla, you are the best :-)
Just waiting for that affordable car and I'll buy one.
Did you buy one?
Never will happen. All the real good paying jobs are being took over by robots. Then charging the customers ( humans) twice as much.
This car company is catering to doctors, tech wizards and business owners. Regular labor humans won’t be able to afford this car.
Amazing. Best engineered shop.
I work for Ford we build the Focus and C-Max here in Wayne, MI. I like how clean the Tesla facility looks but then I am sure it's brand new. The Kuka robots I never seen them before and thought they were cool we use Fanuc Robots at our facility. I was at the auto show and really loved how sweet the Tesla vehicles looked inside and out! The paint jobs are nice too... I am a huge techy and am excited about Electric Vehicles unfortunately I live in a Condo with a carport and have no way to charge.
2:59 You call it smart cart but I watch Marques Brownlee interview with Elon he called it dumb robots
They aren’t actually smart per say, since they just follow a line. Nor are they truly autonomous as far as I know, since they don’t rely on path finding. Maybe I’m wrong about the definition of autonomous.
Made in America
+Maarten van Rossem Lezingen The battery is made by Panasonic in Japan, Welding robots made by Fronius in Germany, the robots workers are made by Kuka in Germany, the Smart Cart is made by Bastian Solutions in USA, many pieces are coming from Mexico... Globalisation... The world is an industry!
Cyclotron BXL The batteries are going to be made in Nevada. The factory is going to be larger than all battery factories combined.
Maarten van Rossem Lezingen
"The batteries are going to be made in Nevada." OK.
"The factory is going to be larger than all battery factories combined." Impossible!!!
Tesla is known for exaggerating their comments and sometimes as liar.
Tesla cars are good and beautiful, but like many others models, there're coming out to soon.
Any car company can made it! But it is not bancable! 2016 will maybe become the first year with benefit for Tesla! I hope for them that will be a good year.
No, assembled in America. Everything else is imported/produced somewhere else. Though may be there are some things which are actually were made in the us
by IMMIGRANT
Beautiful. Well done.
This factory is literally just 10 minutes from my house. I gotta tour this factory one of these days.
Future ..
I would appreciate real pace motion from the assembly lines, not fastened video.
fabulous showing!
Great to see the Daifuku Webb SmartCart Automatic Guided Carts helping with the assembly process. h
Isn't this how most modern cars are built? Show us the part where Tesla is different.
most of a vehicle is assembled by people, not robots. tesla does dash, seats, and other interior panels, plus windshields with just a single robot, running parallel lines. that has never been done before by any auto manufacturer. that is an engineering feat of epic proportions.
What, HOW? Every car manufacturer started out as a small backyard garage. suddenly this guy shows up with the idea of a good electric car and suddenly everything is automated with robots and every few minutes a brand new model s pops out of the factory like a jellyfish polyp
Well, he's Elon Musk. A co-founder of pay-pal.
+Drac1103 and the first model actually was built in a small garage.
FoodOnCrack Well Elon Musk made 300 million from paypal
Apart from the car, the production of this video from Wired is also great.
Seeing the multi talented robot assembling windows and seats, why not go further:
- Attaching Tires
- Bringing in the electronics inside the car so the worker can just connect it to place
- Stacking the stamped aluminium parts into storage
- Smart carts delivering these crates of components to the assembly area
Virtually no supply chain, amazing
You must be kidding. Do you really think they make all the interior and trim themselves? The wheels, the glass etc., etc. What they show here is what any other car manufacturer does.
The more Japanese technology behind Tesla the merrier... (Panasonic batteries, Kawasaki robotics etc.) Best regards to Tesla from Poland !!!
I thought they used German robots?
Those robots are Kuka
OMG , Elon Musk seems to be revolutionising a complete industry .
Does anyone know what computer language controls the robotic arms? My guess is something similar to G&M code for CNC mills and lathes.
They need to come up with tech so the car could charge itself from solar and wind, while driving..
the goal of car is to have as small as possible drag coefficent... if they tried to make it generate electricity from wind that would add drag when driving. Its basic physics, you would gain nothing. allthough solar would be nice but not if u have a garage and want to keep your car under roof. Just buy solar panels for your roof man
Nah, it's not an efficient way to do things. There are better ways.
Sure, Kind of like the cartoon using a bathtub shell as a boat that when water starts filling in through the drain you stick in a spout to divert it up, over, and out the back for propulsion. Physics don't work like that.
I don't think there are that much energy that can be harnessed in real-time to charge the car. I mean, a car is a huge machinery to move.
Sorry, but you seem to lack complete knowledge of physics. Please try to pull your hair like Munchhausen, maybe you can lift yourself and fly to space. Wind power! The loss of energy by the drag coefficient would be higher than the produced energy to accelerate the car. Solar energy while driving, lol?! Do you know how much energy that gives? Its proportional to irradiation and the surface are of the car. Maximum 1kW/ square metre could be gained theoretical, thats maximum 7HP for a car on a shinny day. Seven freakin horsepower, good luck with it, you can power your bicycle! :)
Hello, future! I've been waiting.
Hey , Are you still Alive? It’s been 7yr
@@browncookies8048 Just barely. jfc it's been rough
@@Neceros Thank God. Yeah it’s been rough for a lot of people since the Corona happened. It’s crazy how a lot of things can happen in a period of Seven years. Just hang in there and you receive your break through when the time comes
Our 14 year old car is being held together waiting for the 100% electric Tesla. How wonderful for our environment! I hope the Model X reaches Toronto Canada soon along with Solar City's chargers .One thousand Kudos to Elon Musk and the Tesla teams!!
beautiful system
I know a few guys that worked at Tesla in their production assembly department. They all said, more or less, "If you like a work-life balance, do not work at Tesla." None of them work there anymore.
Cool, but not exactly new technology. Automakers have been using robots for years. I could go out on the floor and take the same video where I work.
No doubt. But Tesla is designing robots to do more and more of the Project.
Better hurry before you get your pink slip. There is a robot to replace you.
I agree with you there, everything necessary is where it belongs & everything else is removed. That's my shop mantra as well, it would be cool if Elon gets to build the Hyperloop system, I can almost picture the level of finish & esthetics for the project.
This is amazing. Although I don't know if having a lot of robots is a good idea because don't they replace a lot of workers needed for making the cars? Just something to point out there.
KUKA Robotics! German precision engineering joining american pioneering spirit to make something that will eventually change the automobile industry as a whole!
So, why are they so dam expensive if everything is so automated?
+Nomans land 35.000 USD for the new model 3 isn't a lot of money. What you pay for is the Battery and the technology invested in the car(s).
I agree with you and I find it weird too. But a fair part of the price is spent on (human) R&D, to make the car in higher volumes.
Cost of materials. The batteries alone cost a bunch.
nacs Yeah, mostly batteries, which are not as automated yet.
But they're working on it.
>>why is it so expensive
We live in the UK and are already the very happy owners of a Tesla Roadster (whose insane acceleration and 200 mile range has completely converted our petrolhead friends) for a number of years and have been on the waiting list for the Model S since it was announced. Never thought I would own and love an American car, but as the man says.. It's the future..
@0.09 - When will I see those available in FootLocker?