130 kg mega casting produced at Giga Berlin, front underbody of the Tesla Model Y.
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130 kg mega casting produced at Giga Texas. Front underbody of the Tesla Model Y
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Tesla Giga Texas’ Model Y front megacast is as intimidating as it is revolutionary
Tesla made waves a few months ago when it revealed that it was already utilizing single-piece megacasts for the Model Y’s rear underbody. The innovation was evident with automotive veterans such as Sandy Munro praising Tesla for its bold strategy. During that time, Tesla announced that its...
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There is an error with original post. Image is from Giga Texas as original picture poster makes this claim.
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Today's Giga Austin video features plenty of mega castings on trucks ready for shipment. First clip at 34 second mark:
May 14 mega casting article from InsideEvs:
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May 17 article from electrek:
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May 14 mega casting article from InsideEvs:
Report: Tesla Model Y First Test Casting Completed At Giga Austin
According to a report by Texas resident and drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer, Tesla has completed the first est casting of the Model Y at Giga Austin.
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May 17 article from electrek:
Tesla produces first Model Y megacast at Gigafactory Texas
Tesla has produced the first Model Y megacast at Gigafactory Texas ahead of the start of production of the Model...
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Model Y has always been a unibody design. The single piece rear casting is not what makes it unibody.
From Motor Trend:
"Unibody is short for unit body or unitized body—meaning the body, floorboards, and major chassis structural support and crash-protection elements are welded, bonded, molded, or somehow joined into a single structural element."
Effectively it's the same design, single piece rear casting just reduces the number of welds and bonds.
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Watts_Up
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Or may be those casting are sent to a foundry to recycle the metal?
ZenRockGarden
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I think 2 pieces may be the optimal point - the better to allow for insertion of all the egg guts in between the two egg-shell-halves. The point of all this was to reduce the 100-odd welded/bolted/riveted individually made pieces down to just a few.
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