Cybertruck Production Has Seemingly BEGUN IN TEXAS!!! Photos & Video From Assembly Line

[Ogre]

Definitely NOT formal line production yet, but very exciting to see things are happening.

I don’t think anyone is expecting dozens of Cybertrucks rolling out next week.

Trucks are being babied through the line, almost certainly tons of manual intervention and starts and stops. But it is being produced on the final assembly line and being used to troubleshoot the final assembly line, as opposed to the previous images we had which were clearly trucks getting build on a temporary line in Fremont.

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[Tinker71]

You should be the first to lead the charge. Go ahead. The rest can read between the lines on my posts and enjoy the breadcrumbs I will carefully drop through the end of the year while not risking my job.

I agree. That bent stainless may be part of a door but not a complete part. Progress yes but not proof of a functioning assembly line. I am pretty pumped on the casting machine tho. I thought it might take months to fail it in. A couple more things of the list. Great progress for June.

 

[CYBRSMTH]

Now THAT, is awesome. Love seeing that bent stainless steel. This is revolutionary in the auto industry. So very, very cool.

I wonder what part that is?

I’m excited to see the Cybertruck finally hit production, but did we forget about the DeLorean (stainless steel sports car produced in 1981)?

 

[cvalue13]

I did the exact same thing.. filled out the trade in page and then exited after the gave me the estimate..
so YEP i bet that was the trigger.

just did the same with my Lightning and Austin area code - just in case they see fit to give me mine early in exchange for the easy marketing photo opportunity

Gave me a pretty good trade-in range on the Lightning, too ?

 

[CyberGus]

did we forget about the DeLorean (stainless steel sports car produced in 1981)?

Yeah I totally forgot

 

[CYBRSMTH]

Yeah I totally forgot

I mean the DeLorean was a flop, but then became a cult classic. I think the Cybertruck has a lot more going for it. It will be a halo car for Tesla and drive sales toward their more affordable models. Someday the cost will come down and it will qualify for the $7,500 rebate, but that will take a few years.

 

[cvalue13]

You should be the first to lead the charge. Go ahead. The rest can read between the lines on my posts and enjoy the breadcrumbs I will carefully drop through the end of the year while not risking my job.

You'll be the last account on this forum that I unfollow

Appreciate what breadcrumbs you've been able to spare

Meanwhile and separately, here's a ~good ~insider glimpse into how to think about what "start of production" means, as relates to a final production line going through shakeout. (Special attention paid to the final paragraph.)

"During the vehicle development several vehicle builds take place in parallel with the design process​

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Initially there are rough prototypes, in which new bits and piece s(say the engine) are installed in old bodies. These are built in a workshop. The results of the tests on these are analyzed and used to improve the new design.​

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Then at some point we build cars off soft tooling. These look and behave much like real cars, but because the tooling is cheap we can still make big changes (not so true nowadays). These are often built in a pilot plant.​

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Then the big money gets spent on hard tooling, and the first real cars to the final design roll off either a pilot plant or the production plant. This could be several hundred vehicles. This is often done in two batches, the first batch will be missing a few parts and have handmade bridging parts.​

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The tail end of that batch will be used as long lead press cars. The others will be used for checks on homologation and some other tests, and lots of drives. After testing or whatever they’ll be used as the basis of prototypes for the next program, or scrapped.​

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Finally, most factories close for a couple of months and the assembly line is re-tooled to build the new model efficiently. It is started up, and after a few days of fine tuning, will be brought up to full line speed, which can be 80 cars per hour. All those cars are theoretically saleable units but some will be taken off for testing.​

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Different companies have different terminology for each build, and it changes over time, so I am hesitant to name them. Anyway start of production is Job #1 is the first saleable units."​

 

[cvalue13]

Definitely NOT formal line production yet, but very exciting to see things are happening. For world class manufacturer such as Tesla, it must follow a very strict and standard process flow: DV (Design Verification), PV (Product Validation), PPAP etc. The video and pictures appear to be more like equipment / line tuning, not production. If PPAP is happening, you should see from sheet metal rooling in, the very begining, to end, a truck rolling out, non stop production on a fully equipped line, "as if it's the mass production" which is not, for a predetermined quantiy of trucks to satisy sample / population requirement. Then the whole thing stops. All produced PPAP units' details get examined from top to bottom. Issues if any summarzied, root caused resolved... If all goes well, small batch mass production begins, then ramps up. If not, solve the problem then allow PPAP again, or carry the problem forward to small batch mass production while simultaneoulsy trying to sovle it along the way. PPAP may have already happened and we just didn't see it or, it's happening soon.

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[IJNYamato]

Meanwhile and separately, here's a ~good ~insider glimpse into how to think about what "start of production" means, as relates to a final production line going through shakeout. (Special attention paid to the final paragraph.)

Definitely some good insight there in that last paragraph. Tesla is definitely unique in how they launch vehicles.

I truly wish I could go into details. I'm an enthusiast too. I just don't want people reading this thread title and then a month from now everyone has their pitchforks ready wondering where the hell their truck is.

Late next month *should* be a good opportunity for the drone flyers, though...

 

[Mini2nut]

The photo appears to be good news regarding the thickness of the stainless steel exoskeleton. The door skins look pretty thick in the photo. The concepts 3mm thickness might make it to production after all.

 

[CybertruckAgent]

Now THAT, is awesome. Love seeing that bent stainless steel. This is revolutionary in the auto industry. So very, very cool.

I wonder what part that is?

Looks like the hood/frunk lid but unfinished

 

[AkaCarioca]

I don’t think anyone is expecting dozens of Cybertrucks rolling out next week.

Trucks are being babied through the line, almost certainly tons of manual intervention and starts and stops. But it is being produced on the final assembly line and being used to troubleshoot the final assembly line, as opposed to the previous images we had which were clearly trucks getting build on a temporary line in Fremont.

Did anybody received a text msg like this Today?
It happened just few hours after I logged in to check my reservation.

 

[Ogre]

Did anybody received a text msg like this Today?
It happened just few hours after I logged in to check my reservation.

I’d be super cautious about scams. Pretty sure Tesla cold texting people is pretty much a non thing.

 

[CYBRSMTH]

Looks like the hood/frunk lid but unfinished

For some reason that looks like a door panel to me. Who knows?

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