Hundreds of Cybertruck castings spotted at Giga Texas! 🤩

[Crissa]

Your math is wrong. Remember there are two castings per truck, front and rear clips. So 2 min per casting would be 4 min per truck. Which equates to 15 trucks per hour, 120 trucks per 8 hour shift. 360 for every 3 shifts, 1,800 per week, 90,000 trucks for a 50 week year. So, they are definitely running much faster cycle times.
It may be a total to 2 min between injection molding, unloading and cooling. But while unloading a cooling they’re injection molding the next one. Thats what Munro was saying.

More castings per truck means more presses per truck, not the same press used twice. Because of downtime to change the molds would be horrendous.

Remember any numbers could be missing downtime for swapping out the molds, or even recycles time for the coolant injectors and vacuum charges. Over a year, the gigapresses were spitting out a Model Y rear casting every two minutes - but they stop to change the molds once in awhile, then have to do some verification runs, and the older machines were using a different coolant system so...



-Crissa

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[cybguy]

I'm not frustrated at all. I made a preorder on a vehicle that wasn't finalized and didn't even have a location for a factory to build it yet. Tesla hasn't really teased anything, it's just obsessed fans trying to dig up info. If you needed a vehicle quickly, you should have picked something with a factory to build it.

I've

I'm not frustrated at all. I made a preorder on a vehicle that wasn't finalized and didn't even have a location for a factory to build it yet. Tesla hasn't really teased anything, it's just obsessed fans trying to dig up info. If you needed a vehicle quickly, you should have picked something with a factory to build it.

Exactly. I placed my first Cybertruck order 10 minutes into the unveiling only because I wanted a new truck in 4-5 years. I also didn't want one in the first 10,000 produced. Over the years I've been shot down so many times on this and other sites because I was always realistic. Well actually I wasn't all that realistic as I expected first deliveries by late August 2023 (2 Martian years). I still think Tesla could have a few hundred deliveries this year. I don't care if they give spec and prices the day before the first delivery.

 

[GlockandRoll]

Hard not to get excited seeing this.

 

[PilotPete]

More castings per truck means more presses per truck, not the same press used twice. Because of downtime to change the molds would be horrendous.
-Crissa

Or, you could make both castings at the same time. It’s a dang big press. You could cast both simultaneously together at the same time all at once.

 

[Mini2nut]

Are we going to see Cybertruck "production hell" for the first few months?

Elon may have to get that factory couch ready!

 

[Crissa]

I've

Exactly. I placed my first Cybertruck order 10 minutes into the unveiling only because I wanted a new truck in 4-5 years. I also didn't want one in the first 10,000 produced. Over the years I've been shot down so many times on this and other sites because I was always realistic. Well actually I wasn't all that realistic as I expected first deliveries by late August 2023 (2 Martian years). I still think Tesla could have a few hundred deliveries this year. I don't care if they give spec and prices the day before the first delivery.

Yeah, I wasn't going to even want a new car until December 2022, so having to wait from Nov 2019 wasn't a big deal.

It's a teensy bit later than estimated, tho. So I understand the frustration.

-Crissa

 

[Crissa]

Or, you could make both castings at the same time. It’s a dang big press. You could cast both simultaneously together at the same time all at once.

Then you'd need an even bigger press! There's some issues of scaling that we're probably not privy to.

-Crissa

 

[Mini2nut]

The Tesla lithium refinery plant is scheduled to be up and running in Q1 2024. The Cybertruck volume production puzzle is almost complete.

Being vertically integrated gives Tesla a huge competitive advantage over the competition. I believe the Austin cathode plant is coming on line soon as well.

 

[Petertsai]

Not good manufacturing technique to stock that many cast parts. should be just in time inventory. Does not make sense to stack them out side and then bring them inside. Could be rejects ready for remelt.

 

[Crissa]

Not good manufacturing technique to stock that many cast parts. should be just in time inventory. Does not make sense to stack them out side and then bring them inside. Could be rejects ready for remelt.

They need to cure;
The casting machine can spit one out every minute or two when it's running;
But then it stops running for days while it needs a new mold and maintenance.

So you need to build up a queue of them. It's no different than having a bin of screws. You don't have today's screws arrive just in time - you have enough screws so that whenever the next truck arrives you're just finishing off the last one. That way the factory never halts because one part hasn't arrives.

When you're early, you're on time; when you're late, you're late.

-Crissa

 

[Petertsai]

Aluminum casting usually have issues with porosity. Hopefully this injection molding process has fixed that otherwise there will be cracks.

 

[Crissa]

Aluminum casting usually have issues with porosity. Hopefully this injection molding process has fixed that otherwise there will be cracks.

These casts are done under vacuum, with a metal that's been formulated to reject gasses.

-Crissa

 

[anionic1]

That would make the castings a poor choice for vehicles that are driven and/or stored outside.

maybe thats why they took those 2 to mexico before the Baja race to let them acclimate first

 

[madquadbiker]

Not good manufacturing technique to stock that many cast parts. should be just in time inventory. Does not make sense to stack them out side and then bring them inside. Could be rejects ready for remelt.

Is there any room inside?

 

[Ed Harris]

Spotted by Joe Tegtmeyer

Big News at Giga Texas on this 6 Oct 2023! If you are a short term analysts looking to fill a spreadsheet, or someone looking for a flashy new Cybertruck on the outbound lot, you just won't understand the milestone these images represent. Hint, we have never seen this many Cybertruck F & R castings ... ever. What could this mean?​

This is from my insider at the Texas plant. Posted a few minutes ago

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