How Tesla Cars Are Made So Fast - Meet the GIGA PRESS
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2021
- The Giga Press is Tesla’s superpower. The reason Tesla is the super brand that it is. These giga presses are massive, ginormous beasts! In fact, they are so large, they would easily swallow your apartment whole and still have room! Crazy, right? These guys weigh over 400 tons and measure 20 meters by 7.5 meters by 6 meters. That is, 66 feet by 25 feet by 20 feet. These are huge! So huge that transporting them requires the use of over 20 flatbed trucks.
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So basically if you have an accident, your car is totaled, as there are only three parts to the chassis, so damage to one essentially means the entire chassis is destroyed. You can't remove a part.
Not in all cases, There is about 20 different area's in the rear of the chasis which range from don't repair, to repair however you want, It is possible to remove the whole thing but you would need a brand new extended range dual motor model to not write it off.
@@CyborgbobaFettSounds optimistic. Let's wait for the insurers reaction when they find out that the repair is not economically viable. I don't think they are going to be happy bunnies.
Teslas are very expensive to insure
as opposed to any other car where the chassis is damaged in a crash? Tell me cupcake, what does insurance do when the frame is bent on an Escalade or Lexus ES350?
@@slowery43 Have fun realigning an aluminium frame.
A die cast car, just like the ones I collected as a kid. Full circle!
Hot wheels 🤣🤣
How tf u do that emoji
@@Nikkk6969
In fact, that’s where Musk got the idea. He had disassembled a die cast toy Tesla in the board room and said, “Why can’t we do this?”
Its old technology in the Model y anyway.
The Austin Mini pioneered the Body bolted on to subframes front and back a concept in 1959. The only difference is the IDRA-press that creates the subframes.
Sheet metal presses at GMC Truck and Coach in the 40s-70s were huge. They required foundations going down to bedrock and exerted hundreds of tons of force to create body panels and parts in a few seconds from rolls of steel. It was a deafening place to work with ten or more presses working constantly. The idea of die casting a frame is not really a press like in the past. A press assisted forge is more like it.
yeah, no not down to bedrock lol.
Ahh yes he is correct on mounting the press down to bedrock. It requires around 800-1000 tons to stamp a bodyside depending on the size of the stamping.
"100,000 units that's unheard of" 😂😂😂😂 Yeah, sorry but that's nothing to write home about.
GM's Talegaon Dhamdhere, Maharashtra (India) plant produces 160,000 units annually.
GM's Arlington, TX plant produces roughly 245,000 units annually.
GM's Wentzville, MO plat produces about 112,500 units annually.
Toyota's plant in Georgetown, KY, produces 550,000 units annually!
And the list goes on if you know how to google... 😉
Comparisons are odious, but you haven't mentioned the parameters viz the area and capacity, capital and per unit cost , time ,manpower ,safety etc .
@@jkardez4794 Indeed because Tesla would clearly be at a disadvantage there. It's already the automaker with most lawsuits from customers and employees than all the other automakers combined world wide.
@@mururoa7024 NO !
@@jkardez4794 I know I know, it hurts to see a company go down like that.
@@mururoa7024 He said it was unheard of for a factory to do 100,000 units IN ITS FIRST YEAR. He also said a fully up and running factory (like the ones you mentioned) could potentially produce 750,000 units per year
You're mixing casting and stamping videos while you're discussing casting.
Exactly!
Agreed. Video makes no sense. One minute it’s a mould, next minute it’s a die cast machine.
Shill channel
I was getting confused too. Thought this was some miracle machine, from the video.
It almost seems deliberate to confuse the viewer.
Making Tesla car chassis from larger parts may go someway to explain why they are expensive to repair and therefore insure. It may also explain the notorious panel gaps.
Cross subsidiary is an financial operation of invest income from producing one product into another production. Let's say Musk take money from tesla and does not invest in telsa, instead he invests in spaceX, doggycoin e.t.c.
The repair costs for a little bump are outrageous
They're moulding it.
Larger parts will reduce problems, not increase.
Tesla isn't worried about the costs to repair; they're selling. Someone will come up with a cheaper way to fix them if the market demands it.
The story goes that Elon Musk, in order to reduce the cost of his Tesla, asked 6 or 7 world manufacturers of presses if it would be possible to print the body in only 3 pieces, "it's not possible", "no, no one will succeed", they all said no except the Idra Group of Brescia (Italy) "why not? Sure!" and so the 6000 T Giga Press was born, now the 9000 T one is ready.
This is why my model 3 sounded like a maraca everytime I hit a bump. prioritizing speed over quality of craftmanship
You're killing me over here😅
What year model 3?
They recent model 3 uses gigacastings, and has much improved build quality
@@logitech4873 2022, and unfortunately, I don't think gigacasting is going to fix poor craftmanship when installing internal components, such as incorrectly installed interior panels, forgetting wire tiedows, speaker foam, and the list continues. Anyways. I am very happy with my i4, it does have less range, but is more comfy and drives a lot better than a Tesla. I actually think the biggest danger to Tesla, besides the guy that pretends to be the founder, is that experienced Automakers (BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, etc) are making EVs now.
Pretty cool. The crash mitigation they can cast in is probably another advantage to large cast parts. Crash repair may be a little tougher.
Damage the battery at ALL and it's a write off. Damage the frame AT ALL and it's a write off. Insurance companies are catching on to this and not covering teslas anymore.
@@LarsLarsen77 looked into it & you're correct. Too expensive to fix even minor damage. Tesla has created its own insurance company to deal w/ insurance shortage.
@@samj1185 That's not necessarily a good thing. The maths of the problem won't change. And it gets worse as other manufacturers start adopting the production technique. This looks like something that needs regulation.
LOL a little tougher. You are better off buying a new car then trying to repair a dent.
Even minor fender benders come with 5 figures in damage. Being able to make them fast should not be a priority over making them less disposable and more repairable.
The Giga Press uses aluminum/silicon alloy for casting, not "silicone" as stated by the speaker.
Silicon rubber hot mits for cupcakes...easy to see how they'd get confused. 😂
Lots of mistakes in this video... Even more mistakes in the comments lol
No wonder Tesla cars have not changed the looks. The beetle of the new era.
Even without seeing this video or knowing about the Giga press - it’s not a secret that there are cost savings to not refreshing a models styling.
soy trasparente babe. only seek the way
Instead they make many technical improvements every month.
This is why every Tesla has less detail than a hot wheels car.
Making a new mold is pretty easy tho, I’m sure they do it all the time
My friend leased a Model S and toured the Factory. The Giga Press shows up on the Seismic Equipment and they had to work that out.
Not silicone but silicon.
yeah, I was like: isn't silicone that thing that goes in breast implants? pretty sure those aren't rocks lol
Silicone is used to make hollywood celebrities.
That’s simply an amazing, jaw dropping product from IDRA. They sell tens of millions of dollars of product to Tesla; at the same time, they must be feeling the pressure. I can’t imagine even a second of downtime on these machines on the production floor. These incredibly complex machine with thousands of moving parts operating at unimaginable pressure, stress, and temperature, while being the size of a house needs to be in tip top running shape 24/7, 365 days a year with no downtime other than routine maintenance. IDRA probably has a support staff on every factory floor these machines are installed in, of which are probably on call 24/7.
And what’s down time for pm? As I’m a maintenance I can’t imagine what do I have to do
@@deanle604 Pm's on plastic injection molding is pretty straightforward. 6~8 hours. Just keep it lubed. I cant imagine its much different. They look identical but giga is huge.Its when you have to pull the screw you can get some massive downtime. Its the assembly machines that are a P I T A .
Tesla will sell 1.5 million cars this year and 10 million by 2035
It's doing moulding, not much pressing .
MADE IN ITALY 😁😱😁😱🤣😱
It isn’t like Tesla invented the giga-press. There is a reason other manufacturers don’t use it. It make vehicles almost unrepairable. Now imagine what that is going to do for insurance rates?
tesla does not want to sell cars lasting 10-20 years. new car every 4 years!
Why can’t you repair it anymore?
@@ApfelmusKanone cause its one piece. If you bust the roof or side pillar for example you usually could have a new one installed but this isn't possible with a one piece chassis
hahaha you're showing just how little you understand about business
@@jaemyungkim5226 EV last longer than ICE cars because they have less moving parts.
Once got a tour of a injection molding press that was set up to do car bodies. Half of the machine was underground and the building it was in was built around the press.
The whole project was backed by a couple of our big car companies {aka our tax dollars} and was scrapped in the 1990's.
Tooling for this press had to be transported by rail car due to the size and weight. Last I knew the press was collecting dust and the facility was being used as a technical service facility.
Just like the GM EV1, they lete the future slip right between their fingers.
They’re all in bed with the Biden Administration, Tesla is not!
Also quoted by Musk "The best part is no part", paired with the concept of "The machine that builds the machine", less robots is desirable... On the quality control side, I've also read it somewhere that Musk has said "Humans are underrated", so faster production AND less robots ideally means more money to invest in the human side of quality control, design and operations. I just wish they would drop the tesla charger form factor and go with the industry standard CCS combo to streamline charging compatibility, there is adapters but again "No part is the best part"
They developed their own infrastructure on that plug, they'd be retarded to drop it
I work with engineers responsible for designing and maintaining automotive production lines. Robots are more reliable than manual operators - as long as they're calibrated properly and the right quality control measures are in place (cameras, laser sensors etc). The human element is design and maintenance of the line, but I could see AI taking part of that over.
In the world of presses, this isn't that big. But yes, presses are key to efficient manufacturing at any size.
It also isn't a press, but hell.
@@iridium8341 Not even close. Try looking at the 50,000 ton press in the video "America's Iron Giants" by Machine Thinking. And I've got a feeling that that isn't even the biggest any more.
@@jonathanj8303It is a press.
It's an injection molding machine not a press.
Half the people who watched this video literally have no idea what they just watched. This is NOT A PRESS. This is the largest die cast in human history.
I’ve worked in both plastic injection moulding which just looks like that machine and aluminum diecasting making aluminum wheels for Toyota but this giga press that’s incredible I did not know you could do that mixing the two
I wish they came out the end with a cheek pop sound, and a worker dressed as Super Mario said, " fa bene!".
I have a Gigga press in my kitchen it makes great espresso's 😊
That's a lot of beans
It's not aluminum and silicone. It's aluminum and silicon. Silicone and silicone are two completely different materials.
Unfortunetly silicone and silicone are two completely same materials.
Spell correction I assume
@@leszekbrzostowski38 semantics. It is and it isn't depending out your definition
Aluminum ALLOY has silicon mixed in it. Just like steel has iron and carbon mixed together.
Tesla fanbois write like middle schoolers that just found a thesaurus.
How much are robots used to assemble sub-assemblys.?
The Consol is quite complex when presented to the vehicle.
Meanwhile at Krupp steel factory in 1928 - yes, 95 years ago, there was a 15000 tons (!) press. LOL
So it's not actually a press. You press hardened material, you MOLD liquid material. Just because the molten material is forced into the mold rather than gravity fed doesn't make this a press. It's a reusable auto-mold that replaces sand molds. That's a good thing because sand molding is messy, time consuming, dangerous, labor intensive and takes up a lot of space.
Still a press. The press is the machine that open and closes the dies which contain the mold.
It is a press, a giga press is massive die casting machine, that compresses to a large single mold
It is a Press, it needs to apply an enormously high amount of tonnage to keep the die from opening when injection pressure is applied.
It’s a press or Elon is wrong wise guy
@@evostu7814 Just like every other die casting machine. Pressing parts vs molding parts. Higher pressure doesn't change that reality. It's a die casting machine. GIGA press is just a catchy name.
The first Teslas didnt have this 3 main parts, I watched a video where a mechanic put one on the lift and counted All the assembled parts explaining how this makes the car more expensive..I see thinks changed for the better
Dont forget that in 1925, Henry Fords Hyland Park factory was producing 9500 cars A DAY, and not a gigapress in sight.
Yep, and jobs. Different times. When Man power was it. Sort of.
Maybe 9500 parts in a day, not 9500 cars. That's nonsense.
@@tuck6464 Yup, they produced around 9500 Model Ts a day at Hyland Park. It's well documented. Three shifts of 8 hours and the lines never stopped. About every 9 seconds a new car was driven out of the works. They had 8 lines producing one model. Around 25,000 people worked there.
They didn't build them all in Illinois. That's the total production #'s. In 1925, Ford had no less than 50 assembly plants in the U.S. alone, and at least 25 in other countries, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and many more. @@bobolulu7615
and a B-24 Liberator every 57 or so minutes
Now i see Telsa is receiving a New Giga Press that can Press out a Cyber Truck in Whole .. Wooo i like to see...
It can press out a whole country...including its citizens!
Which will be a serious issue in the future after cybertrucks hit the market. everyone is going find out, that hauling heavy loads and pulling heavy trailers. will rip those trucks apart, anyone with a half a lick of brains knows that to do that kind of hauling. the truck has to have a full frame under it. and a unibody truck simply won't handle it. and that is going to bite him in the ass in the future.
so that's why the cybertruck only took 5 years to ship 😂😂
There was this global pandemic thing... Cosid... Covad... or something, that caused supply chain shortages across the auto industry. Idk I'm probably a crazy person.
Because all these Elon fan boys who make these videos are delusional just as Elon and don't live in the real world where physics play a big role on top of other laws. That's why.
each panel has a different mould. so does each car take a set of gig presses to produce?
they just need to change the mold. the press is designed this way.
aluminum and silicone frame, huh?
no wonder these cars are totaled so easily!!!
I was trying to figure that out also. How strong is aluminum and silicon when they are melted down and joined together? In all honesty, I am still wondering how does that press work. They have my respect. Hopefully everything goes well.
here in Australia we move 615tonne generators using three prime movers. the generators are 6mteres diameter and the load is 125metres long.
The presses shown are impressive beasties!
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First of all, the speed of the film does not let you understand what is actually happening.
Secondly, I was waiting to see a chassis made by this megapress. Instead, I saw equipment robots that exist in any car factory, even here in Romania, where we successfully produce DACIA.
No offense, but DACIA sells better in Europe than TESLA
The next big innovation would be to exchange intricate wiring harnesses for some sort of electrical/signal bus that is going to be easy to assemble into the car and all equipment would be just plug and play sort of style. I don't know how to accomplish that, but that would reduce assembly costs massively and there would be no need for human assemblers anymore there.
Makes me want one seems to be a good daily commuter to work or groceries, no autonomous driving for me personally unless it's for retrieval purposes without me inside and very large parking lots to come pick us up, I just would never want to use it.
So somebody hit you from the side on your rear wheel and breaks all your suspension off you will have to buy another car. I also would like to know how the steel quarter panel is joined to the cast aluminum floor panel. I don't think aluminum has the right properties for a quarter panel. Steel is a much better choice for 1/4 panels. And at the factory comes as what is called a uniside it's both door openings and the quarter panel as one giant piece
steel parts are bonded and riveted to aluminium parts.
If somebody hits your back wheel and your entire suspensions breaks off, the car will be totaled Tesla or not.
I wouldn’t exactly call that a massive press. I have operated much bigger, stronger, heavier presses. I have operated 3000 and 4000 ton presses that weigh 700-850 tons. They could blank thru 5/8” thick material 32 strokes per minute. It is cool to see what this plant has become. I was there for 10 days back in 1994 when it was NUMMI.
I don't think the creator has ever been in a heavy industrial setting where machines are the size of football fields
When I was a Navy SEAL I operated a 100 trillion ton press. Come at me.
@@darnelljackson2160 don’t disrespect our country’s elite members of service. They would certainly have more class than you and you probably just work at a fast food restaurant and live with your mom and act like the place is yours.
Thought exactly the same ... when I was an apprentice in my 3rd year I got sent for another plant of our company and the first thing I saw there was : Engel 5500 moulding machine ... that piece of kit was so big that you could easily drive a schoolbus below the moulds and the moulds would still be having half a meter clearance above the bus ... and lets be real : 5500 tons of pressing force is kind of chunky , but you need those kinds of pressures when your injecion-moulding a dozen (no joke, 12) big-size plastic trashcans at once .
Do you want some
Kind of a prize ? 😂😂 I bet you’re now a billionaire tho are ya
That's the reason why insurrance of Tesla sars is so expensive and why you have to wait months for parts if you have an accident.
Damn, that makes the plastic injection molding machines I used to operate look small
"Un-imaginably big" Ummm, I don't even have to imagine a bigger press, I've seen one. Mesta 50 anyone?
This is a die cast. The largest die cast on earth.
when that giga part is bent the car is totaled ,
How did this work out for them today?
what if the power it produces also . is used in the creation of a linked electricity ?that will be useful and reusable on it again .
Looks like be a Nightmare to repair a front or rear smash!
Ever heard of cutting and welding or a chop shop?
@@lesp315 Or a scrapyard.
@@lesp315 s and x are aluminum 3 and y are mixed. not all welding shops do aluminum. These cars get totaled out for far too little as a result.
@@jesseturner9865 Welding aluminum is not a beg deal. My friend has a welding / machine shop and he can weld two beer cans back to beck without burning metal through. Yes, he is a pro. I had a machine shop and retired at 45. It's good to be good.
@@lesp315 I think if Tesla wasn't so proprietary about the repairs, less Teslas would be totaled.
Must make repairing damaged vehicles impossible, great idea Elon.
He says counting change
its a sacrifice that has to be made for progress
@@PresidentEvil Not a very green path to take, I would say.
@@PresidentEvil the right to repair movement not come to your country yet
@@lancemillward2462 Its not Tesla’s problem if you are not capable of repairing it 😂
The flat rock assembly plant for mazda/ford had something very similar
Tesla's Fremont plant used to make GM and Toyotas.
I wonder what exactly is meant by fastest automaker? End to end full build time? How does it matter?
5 mins cycle time is really long! High volume manufacturers like VW have like 50s cycle time and produce 800k cars per plant, with no Gigapress at all
I think if you examined all of your homeware you'd find it was made from zinc based alloys and not a single piece of iron or steel in them......the body of my Kenwood food mixer is one large piece of zinc alloy.
Tesla has a lot of issues with service and repairs, I’ve researched it. I’d hold off buying one till they get it right
only if you want a car just like everyone else that has the same look, the same color, the same body lines...as the guy next door to the guy next to that guy next door then by all means, this is truly impressive...
HOW many cars to reach break even point?
this is very interesting.
Expanding on this maybe Magnesium diecast cars could be next.....
If this method was really better/faster/cheaper don't you think that other automakers would be doing it as well? I mean they've only been making cars for over 100 years now.
The United Autoworkers would never allow it
They are starting. I think most recently I heard that Toyota is adopting the technique, and where Toyota goes, the big volume manufacturers will follow.
" it's unimaginably massive " ?
20 m long is hardly unimaginable .
You just have to imagine 🐋 🐳 🐋 female blue whales, which you see all over the place!
"The average length of sexually mature female blue whales is 22.0 meters (72.1 ft) for Eastern North Pacific blue whales, 24 meters (79 ft) for central and western North Pacific blue whales, 21-24 meters (68-78 ft) for North Atlantic blue whales, 25.4-26.3 meters (83.4-86.3 ft) for Antarctic blue whales, 23.5 meters (77.1 ft) for Chilean blue whales, and 21.3 meters (69.9 ft) for pygmy blue whales." Wikipedia doesn't tell you how tell the sex stuff. That's probably stuck in an edit war.
Ran five of these at Toyota. Very efficient. Just make sure your robots can handle the speed.
good video, thanks
With all those robots the work could also be done mostly in the dark I imagine, and in the cold/hot, so they could save money on electricity for lights, heating and cooling.
The Nissan plant in Smyrna, TN can build over 600,000 vehicles per year.
Now it makes sense why all Teslas look alike, with almost no variable trim options. The GigaPress is awesome tho!
really fancy to create car chassis from one piece, efficient, cost effective bla bla, but makes repair almost impossible.
So what happens in a crash? Can the car be repaired?
With parts from another car. But at this speed he might take over the insurance business also.
Elon is trying to make throw away cars at some point owners may not be able to repair them.
Cars are safer when they crumple like a can.
I think the ultimate model is car-on-demand. ie, you don't own it and when you need one it comes to you autonomously. That's the vision the car companies are headed toward. It will work great in urban areas, but not as cost-effectively in very rural ones. Resulting in great convenience in urban through suburban areas where most of us actually live anyway.
So, a car-on-demand model depends on self-driving, which will result is fewer crumple accidents and fewer deaths, but probably entirely new idiotic accidents based on slo-motion self-driving errors. Overall, a huge improvement. Anyone car that crashes or gets "sick" doesn't;t inconvenience the "owner" since they only lease the service. It's a huge win in urban areas, it makes life easier in suburban areas. And it means zero-clutter in cars.
@@jmhowlett Not the chassis- people will be crushed . Fenders are okay.
Have to admit I guess I never understood how a Tesla car is made until this video. This is no less than a revolution in car manufacturing.
Die casting isnt a new process, but it is new to the automotive sub-structure assembly.
@@newdefsys isnt die casting a lot weaker than regular methods?
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 Depends on the application. For automotive sub-structures, its fine.
Die Casting is old technology.
One cast replaces hundreds of parts.
I wonder when the chassis is cast like this I’ve been watching some videos of Tesla, accidents if they can even repair a chassis like this as its cast not welded together
Ele trouxe evolução ao mercado que já fazia a mesma coisa faz muito tempo.
As insanely efficient as Teslas manufacturing is, you would think the car wouldn’t need to cost as much as it does. To be fair though, you can’t even find a midrange gas car for under $35k anymore and most purchases average closer to $50k.
They are smoking the competition because, using this, they are still able to be very profitable per car while having better pricing overall
@@travisjazzbo3490 Not for long now that BMW and MB is releasing their EV line. Personally, I think Tesla cars are ugly and way overrated and overpriced.
How much child labor is involved in mining the cobalt, nickel,and lithium for a Tesla? How much nuclear waste is produced to make the electricity for a Tesla?
@@matthewmiller2219 Child labor is involved in virtually every product you own, not Tesla specifically. Don’t even go there, and Nuclear energy is the most efficient and cleanest means of producing energy. Disposal is expensive but better than burning millions of tons of coal or oil or natural gas. Bottom line, there is no perfect solution, so if you have one then step up to the plate!
@@rxpsycho7326 Tesla is not knows for their looks. Their cyber truck is god almighty hideous.
Thank you for talking to me like I'm 10 years old. I appreciate that.
2:08 If the soybean oil is GMO people will protest
I'd suggest that giga press engineering to make the machine in the first place, wouldn't have been possible before computer assisted engineering (cadcams).
Watching this listening to large presses bang away lol. Unfortunately this process makes it impossible to repair chassis damage.
There is Beautiful Tesla in a local PSA dealership traded in for a petrol car apparently too costly to run in UK where energy prices are still a rip off?
It’s not “silicone” it’s silicon. How did you get this narration gig?
Let’s talk about that legendary Tesla build quality
this is why Tesla cars take so long to fix or basically rendered "totaled" when in a car accident. its fine to cut cost for production but basically not cutting cost but shifting manufacturing cost to consumer when it comes to fixing a body damage.
Just don't crash the car
@@gbin21 I suppose just buy the car and leave it undriven in the garage..
Well, their idea is to completely eliminate crashes once FSD is universal. So just check back later I guess...
Remember, flying is for droids :)
Incredibly informative video. I’m surprised it has not got millions of views.
Thats great. But how do they do in artic temperatures
The same way your snowmobiles work in Death Valley!
So are these throw away cars?..like after a minor to moderate accident they are probably not repairable at a collision shop
Not only are they made quickly, they are also the strongest, safest cars in the world. A model Y was driven off a 250 ft cliff by a crazy man trying to kill himself and his family. However, they all survived the fall and the kid in the back seat was uninjured. No other car would have protected the passengers from injury like that.
That’s simply not true, there are plenty of cars that would have protected the occupants. Tesla is not the only manufacturer that gets 5 star safety ratings.
@@DinanBMWm5 nope, the local fire department said on local news that every car that has gone off that specific cliff(Devils Slide) they NEVER found any survivors. With the Model Y, they all survived.
@@joesolo7719 yes, absolutely valid argument. A fire department is the official source of "a car holds or not" Did they test every single car? There are plenty of cases where a fucking audi a6 wagon hit a tree with 150 kmh and the passenger survived. The model y may be solid, but die casted parts have one particular disadvantage and that are cracks.
Now we can see where the QC issues come from, at least part of it.
This is what I want to do with electronics. Nice to see the idea saves so much and does things so much faster. Time is money. That's how to compete with Chinese manufacturers.
If it's so easy to make the chassis you would think prices would be lower.
clearly you haven't been paying attention
Someone will find this warehouse during the next dark age and have no idea what these machines did
Btw Ferrari use large cast parts in their alloy chassis' too. Maybe not as large ... ???
Now imagine war time and how quick they can retool this factory to pump out munitions or armored vehicles
The narration is beyond annoying.
Does anyone know if his factories go subterranean? I’ve always wanted to know. They are impressive.
Is the paint job any better yet?
Sounds amazing for manufacturing... I used to do autobody work... Im glad ill never have to do that type of work anymore when teslas ate being made
cool. gigapress for starship when?
I want to cross a robot picket line
Yeah, seeing the robot wives and kids starving is really tough .
Worked at GM, saw presses 100 times bigger than this that literally shake the earth while in operation
GMC Truck and Coach and Pontiac Motors had big presses too. Brother and Uncle worked presses in sheet metal. Hearing protection did little. Uncle worked 30 years and was almost deaf. Brother did ten and has significant hearing loss. Truck and Coach is long gone. Dad was at Pontiac Motors just up the street. Long gone with Fisher Body and foundry.
This is a die cast, not just a press. The largest die cast on earth.
So Tesla's can't rust, since they are made out of aluminium+silicon alloy ?
This is exactly how injection and blow mold machines work in rubber plants and bottle manufacturing for the last few decades. Just different process
Ich habe fast 30 Jahre als Techniker in einer Druckgießerei gearbeitet. Unsere größte Maschine war eine OL 900 und darauf haben wir Kreuzfüße für Bürostühle produziert! Später habe ich Werkzeuge für Getriebegehäuse konstruiert die auf einer OL 2000 gelaufen sind, diese Maschine war schon ein großes Teil, aber eine OL 6100 (!) ist schier unglaublich. Was mag diese Maschine gekostet haben?
What are the machines to make the Gigapress? Giga-gigapress?
Good question . . .
The day when robots are being fired has arrived.
Sweet! They're finally releasing the UAP manufacturing tech to the public :)
Repair of a broken car equals a new car :DDD
A die-cast not-so Dinky I can actually drive! 🤔
My inner 8 year old approves! 👍😉🇬🇧
Whether you’re pro or con electric cars or the fact that there are only 3 parts to the Tesla, I think this build process is pretty amazing. I’m not a fan of electric cars, yet. Not sure I’d want a Tesla. It seems like a throw away to me?
Nice video. Still doesn't explain how to convince me that I want a Tesla...or any other slot car.