Great video from Munro. He is keen on Magnesium which sounds like it could be another game changer if Tesla were to adopt.
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Gigacasting Development
- Thread starter Buckminster
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$900 per gigacasting (Model Y rear, cost for repair centres pre-taxes)
Megacast pioneer Tesla moves to calm insurer fears | Autocar
Thatcham Research tasked with testing EV maker's new underbody after concerns raised over repair costswww.autocar.co.uk
Paywalled - but I found some info on a Turkish X post, this could be unreliable reporting, but another source below.
[Google translate]
Another report - Model Y insurance costs may be lowered as Tesla addresses gigacast part deformation concerns and repair prices
13 mins in, Munro tells us that Tesla are using CFD to design the moulds so that smaller gigacasting presses can produce the bigger components.
