The Gigafactory, the machine that builds machines, is beginning to ramp up through Tesla's AI manufacturing revolution. In this video, I go over which machines actually set Tesla apart and why other automakers will struggle to catch up.
Audi's Die Casting Process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rxyranHX-U
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I struggle to take seriously advice from an obvious fanboy who seems to know next to nothing of manufacturing. Probably learn the difference between a Sheet Metal press and an Injection Casting Machine before you equate the two. Also, it is laughable to say they are going to use 3D Printing to improve production efficiency… Even the most advanced 3D Printing is ridiculously slow compared to even 50yr old dedicated Production Machinery.. that assertion proves the poster has no clue. All of Tesla's grand AI couldn't get a robot to put an O-Ring on a Shaft, so please someone remove the Kooll-Aid from this guys office. I love Tesla, I think Elon is one of histories greatest minds and Engineers, but I won't stand for BS. I am a Trade Qualified Toolmaker with 35yrs Toolmaking Experience. I am also a qualified Mechanical Design Engineer and have worked designing Production Machinery for many world class companies and have lectured in Mechanical Design at University, and owned a Product Development factory with all the machines you speak of… I have the greatest wish for Tesla success, but this candy floss crap from someone who doesn't know a Toggle Clamp from his elbow is barf inducing.
Tesla will reach econmies of scale very soon. When it happens, it will be game over for the other car companies. When Tesla sells 20 million cars a year. It's game over for the other car makers.
It seems you confuse stamped sheet metal parts with die cast parts. Stamled parts start with sheet metal. Diecast uses molten metal injected into a die – hence die cast. Finally, Cybertruck body uses stainless steel sheet metal formed in press brakes. Press brakes make straight bends, not curved surfaces.
Others won't catch up. Tesla will establish a monopoly and absorb other manufacturers. Elon doesn't need competition in order to improve. He is a creative genius. Innovation is his mode of operation, not because he is forced to in order to survive like others. He works without weekends harder than Chinese. No one will be able to catch up. He is scaling up on price without compromising quality. The game is over for others. When electric market saturate, nobody wants to pay higher price for non Teslas.
The fact that the chinese factory cost 65% less mostly shows how cheap the labor is in China.
Get your facts straight and slow down your explanation, mate. The change from sheet steel metal welded construction to cast aluminium ( not steel by the way) front and rear modules for model 3 and model Y creates a massive saving in many areas. Firstly less press parts, resulting in less press dies, less press machine capacity, less robot welding stations and most importantly a dramatically reduced cycle time. Cybertruck will not use casting for exoskeleton but folded stainless steel. Effectively it will use a development of the humble brake press to siimply bend sheet metal that is too hard and too thick to press using traditional press methods. Now here is where it gets interesting.. just imagine a massive tailor welded blank ( different thicknesses across the blank to take account of structural requirements) that is big enough to bend into a complete body shell using a new automated folding technique. I will call this the origami machine as it will take a massive blank and step by step bend it to form the body. How cool is that?
Please, make a video explaining the maintenance costs of all these single-cast gigantic parts?
3D printing is awesome but I think their model Y casting machine and their laser cut and fold cyber truck innovations are more impressive than anything they could do with 3D printing. Beyond prototyping I don't see how they'd use 3D printing in actual production parts. Robot arms setting things into place makes sense. And maybe there is a part that can't be made with an injection molding machine due to the holes where air escapes and the plastic enters and so that one specialty part can be justified on a slow 3D printer bed. Maybe. But most likely the next innovations from them in their factory will be getting even more vertically integrated. They do still get a lot of parts from 3rd party suppliers. And so that represents a huge area of improvement on design and ultimately price for the end customer.
Hmm…. I could be wrong but it seems you are comparing steel stamping at Audi with aluminum die casting at Tesla. Search "model Y frame is aluminum" and you'll see reference to Tesla's patent.
Sorry for the negative comment I know video making is time consuming…. but your content is a little stale. Seen all this before. It's like you have watched other u tube vids and patched all the good bits together.
You confuse casting with stamping. The casting machine doesn't start with a sheet of steel, but with molten aluminium (that's why it's called a casting machine, not a stamping press). Tesla developed a special aluminium alloy for this process. If you don't understand the basics, you perhaps shouldn't try to explain it to others!
Tesla is fantastic, but half of this video is speculation. It's a shame. It started out really well…
Sorry your bias is too much. Love tesla think they will do well but all this cock sucking means i can't take these videos seriously.
The ICE industry thoroughly deserves what Elon is doing to them, for screwing their consumers out of their money in exchange for 3 to 4 years of trouble free driving or less if unlucky, with obsolete cars requiring per design, constant costly maintenance, which could have been easily avoided if their intentions were not so predatory towards their customers money. Just in a few years, regardless the stumbling blocks, the financial impasses and the technical nightmares that Tesla encountered, is now finally emerging as an incredible war machine, that in just a few more years will conquer the entire transportation industry on the ground, below, up in the air, out to sea and in space. Elon Musk engineering mind, can do attitude, and pure genius, will most likely continue to stupefy us all in years to come, leap frogging the entire industry decades if not centuries ahead in the technical wonders he is creating, and with it improving humanity with a far better quality of life. No one is able to predict where Tesla is going to be in a 10 to 15 years time span. But of one thing I am very convinced. His multi function transportation platforms, will ferret billions of us from point A to B in absolute safety, incredible speed, comforts, operating costs so low, that it will be impossible to compete against, for any existing car manufacturing giant, unless they find lurking somewhere an Elon Musk clone, willing to play catch up with the real Mc Coy. The enemies are many, they have already tried to cancel Tesla. But their product is so much better than the competitors, that without spending a red cent in advertising, the word of mouth beneficial effect of an army of satisfied customers is so strong, that the only problem Tesla will have in future will be a constant higher demand than their manufacturing capabilities will be able to produce.
CT will need one gigantic "casting machine" to make the entire exoskeliton?
Reference please
Hi, like your video! However, there is a semantic, technical error in it. The truck body will use the Stamping process with S.S., while the model Y rear lower chassis section will be made with the Casting process. Particularly, it will use the High Pressure Injection Die Casting process to make the worlds largest automobile part ever made from this Casting process. Also they will soon transition to making the front lower chassis from the same Casting process. Stamping is like a massive Force coming down on a sheet of material and pressing it into a molded shape, and does not involve melting the metal. Casting uses molten material injected under high pressure, very rapidly. Then this material freezes in the mold, which is separated after. Good Video. Thanks.
I suspect, though Tesla has no immediate competition, eventually it will be Toyota/Lexus. They'll be some years behind, but they have recognized Tesla's future. They're following and they aren't going to dip their toes in the water half heartedly the way other manufacturers do. Their capacity to transition from hybrids to full EV is key.
Tesla competitor are not GM or lucid its actually VW ID cars which are being produced in the millions with dedicated factory in China , USA and europe. ID4 will be the best competitor to tesla even though the price is very less than model y with usable range.
I don't know who needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving money. Invest some part of it, if you really want financial freedom.
Meanwhile doors don't shut or open, panels don't fit, the paint jobs are so appallingly bad that I'm surprised customers accept them, and there are squeaks and rattles everywhere that the repair shop don't even pretend they will try to fix
I think that all major manufacturers have been sitting on battery technology for some time. Tesla had the Balls to show up!!!
Please, before you make videos like this, you really have to do some research and learn something, even just a little, about manufacturing processes. You've confused stamping with casting. You've used the word "folding", and said that the Cyber Trucks exoskeleton will be made from one piece. It won't. Please! Errors like these make your videos almost unwatchable and certainly raise doubts about the validity of the information you're presenting.
I'm curious how the casting will impact repairs. Will Tesla replace entire sections? Will they total cars faster? They may save $$ on producing cars, but the costs to repair and replace parts may be more $$. I do not know enough to understand the impact. Also, it will not take much for Tesla to redesign the Model S with upgrades to compete against the luxury carmakers.
Note that casting usually refers to building car parts out of molten metal. Audi claimed that their die casting was the machine I showed, but looking further, it appears to just be a stamping machine.
Correction: The Cybertruck will not be using a casting machine, but rather, a folding machine.