This is how our baby will be made. (No girl trucks or boy trucks involved)

[Ogre]

When they were showing the “Unboxed” production video, one of the engineers said “Just like the Cybertruck.

Ignore the paint step, replace the storage area in the back with a huge vault, and it will look a lot like this. (Second Video)

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[Gurule92]

Romance mode activate

 

[charliemagpie]

Yeppo.. I had the timestamped link, but went to bed and accidentally deleted it this morning.


We spoke about the modularity of manufacturing before, and made the point that using wire, new brake system etc... These things could be built as components, and 'slotted' into the car. My idea was building 4WS was maybe as cheap as a tri motor, simply because we were making hundreds of thousands of these modules.

Even the good old plaid motor is maybe going mainstream.


But my main point.. They basically said CT will be using this process, which bodes well for concerns over price points.

I think Tesla is going to destroy established price points.

 

[Ogre]

A video with some commentary on the implications to manufacturing. Still my favorite reveal of the day. This is a big deal.

 

[John K]

The next evolution, major components are shipped with a label, some assembly required.

People across the nation, I am not paying $50 assembly fee. I can do it myself

 

[Ogre]

The next evolution, major components are shipped with a label, some assembly required.

People across the nation, I am not paying $50 assembly fee. I can do it myself

It’s like the Ikea truck, comes in a series of boxes with weird pictures telling you how to assemble it. Then you end up with a big pile of parts and aren’t sure what to do with them.

One weird thought I had about this whole thing. It almost seems like you could replace big sub-assemblies if you got in an accident. I doubt they will do it, but it does almost look like you could just yank the front end and sides and replace them.

 

[FutureBoy]

It’s like the Ikea truck, comes in a series of boxes with weird pictures telling you how to assemble it. Then you end up with a big pile of parts and aren’t sure what to do with them.

One weird thought I had about this whole thing. It almost seems like you could replace big sub-assemblies if you got in an accident. I doubt they will do it, but it does almost look like you could just yank the front end and sides and replace them.

Except for the exoskeleton. And any accident that causes damage to some subassembly will almost certainly affect the exoskeleton.

Now if it was a manufacturing defect or worn/aged parts, that could certainly be replaced one subassembly at a time if needed.

Basically your vehicle comes down to something like 20 parts that can each be ordered individually. Each of those parts is a fully built out subassembly of its own.

 

[Crissa]

It’s like the Ikea truck, comes in a series of boxes with weird pictures telling you how to assemble it. Then you end up with a big pile of parts and aren’t sure what to do with them.

One weird thought I had about this whole thing. It almost seems like you could replace big sub-assemblies if you got in an accident. I doubt they will do it, but it does almost look like you could just yank the front end and sides and replace them.

Have you tried buying a motorcycle lately?

-Crissa

 

[Ogre]

Have you tried buying a motorcycle lately?

-Crissa

I paid $100 extra to have my last mountain bike delivered ready to ride

 

[Ogre]

This isn’t exactly related to the top post, but the lead up to it and I think super important from the perspective of ramp speeds and eventual volume production. They were talking about the process of how they ended up with the above design and it came right out of the Model 3 (something I’ve suggested for a long time).

Frans: "...we leaned into this whole new way of manufacturing a car, but we had already engineered it so things didn't go quite well as planned."
Lars: "It was an amazing product, but it landed us in production hell... Like Franz said, automating something that was built to be made manually is super hard. ... engineers that came by and said we couldn't do it are no longer at the company" (LOL)

Lars Later: ”With Cybertruck, we designed a vehicle that actually started with the manufacturing process...”

We’ve been talking about this on and off here for quite some time, but this is why many of us think the Cybertruck may be much faster than any previous ramp. Still very much jury out on that and Musk’s comments about ramp speed being slow should not be ignored.

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