Crissa
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The question of how Tesla is going to adhere things to the folded steel and avoid cathodic corrosion?
Well... the secret is just a minute into this:
Tesla takes a piece of steel and sticks it in the middle of a nylon injection molding machine to have pre-formed plastic through and against and around the metal beam. No hand fiddling, everything all aligned perfectly.
The Mach-E is using a cast zinc bar... a big single piece, too. But not at the tolerances of the Tesla part. (In the Y and 3 the gigacasting eliminates this part completely, but not completely the 'top hat'.)
-Crissa
Well... the secret is just a minute into this:
Tesla takes a piece of steel and sticks it in the middle of a nylon injection molding machine to have pre-formed plastic through and against and around the metal beam. No hand fiddling, everything all aligned perfectly.
The Mach-E is using a cast zinc bar... a big single piece, too. But not at the tolerances of the Tesla part. (In the Y and 3 the gigacasting eliminates this part completely, but not completely the 'top hat'.)
-Crissa
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