Stretch2727
Engineer and Car Nut
The auto industry (even the US industry) is fully metric across the board at least from a design and supply perspective.Next up: converting to the metric system (maybe Tesla's tooling and suppliers are already that way
internally?)
Funny story though. When I worked for Ford there were some old school machinists that would not accept a drawing in metric. Most plants even if they outsource most machines and equipment have a machine shop for simple tools and modifications. The first time I designed a tool I did it in metric as the part it would hold was designed all in metric. The machinist threw the drawing back in my face and told me to covert it to inches. All the machine shop tools (mills, lathes, etc) were ancient and set up in inches. This was about 20 years ago....
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