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Of course it can be done. That's how they fabricated the prototypes. But can it be done as a high-volume low-cost automated mass-production process? How does this compare in cost and speed with traditional automotive body fabrication? I hope that you are right and that in the coming months we...

I have no idea either. In researching this question I came upon the following article which now has me wondering about the efficacy of the whole notion of origami scoring and folding the steel as a high-volume low-cost mass-production process...

I don't think most barbeques are made of 3-mm-thick ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless-steel. You wouldn't want to try the sledge-hammer stunt with your barbeque. Aluminum is certainly not 3-mm-thick ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless-steel and aircraft are not scored and origami folded like...

And Tesla ceaselessly promoted their new innovative technology. Yet I have not heard even a whisper about this process. I thought that I would have by now. And maybe it isn't a new process, at all; maybe it is a very common industrial process. But I know that it has never before been used to...

I hope so, too. It may be a very well known and commonly used process to score and fold stainless steel of this thickness and hardness into products this large - I am not a manufacturing engineer - but until I see it demonstrated, either by Tesla for the Cybertruck, or by someone else for a...

I would love it if someone could elaborate and cite an instance in the auto-industry or in any other industry where someone has done this before in high-volume with 3-mm-thick (.118-in) ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless-steel sheets for a product this large. I am not saying it can't be done...

Probably? Please cite an example of such a system that does this in high volume for a product the size of the Cybertruck.

My point was not regarding the production of cold-rolled stainless steel. That is obviously already being done and is used on the SpaceX Starship. The problem is that, unlike the thin steel that has been used in auto-bodies for over a century, 3-mm-thick (.118-in) ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled...

As far as I know the origami unibody on the Cybertruck has never been attempted before on a large volume mass-produced vehicle. Yet the industrial equipment that is supposed to score and fold the 3-mm-thick (.118-in) "ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless-steel" sheet into the CT body has never...

I am afraid that attempting to stamp the cold-rolled stainless steel used for the Cybertruck bodies would destroy the Gigapress in short order. They'll need machines that can cut, score, and fold the metal into the Cybertruck body - a process that has never before been attempted at that scale.

But remember that Elon had promised as late as the summer of 2019, that the Cybertruck would be able to tow 300,000 pounds.