HaulingAss
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- Mike
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I wouldn't be surprised to see Tesla develop radical new manufacturing processes for the Cybertruck. In fact, I expect it.I am speculating here but if the front and rear clips are going to be single piece castings and assuming the structural battery pack is itself consistent, I would hedge that the gaps should be more uniform due to the castings themselves being more precise (less parts/less variance/less skew). The wildcard will be the body panels themselves and how precise repeatedly they can be manufactured via folding and bending. I am as well hoping for the best but prepared for the usual.
For example, Tesla may learn the best way to fabricate the main side panels is to ditch the idea of a traditional metal brake that forms one bend in one operation and, instead, passes the side panels through a machine 1/8 mile long that uses rollers to bend the panels gradually at high speed. In this implementation, flat panels would enter one end of the machine at, perhaps, 25 mph and, without slowing down, travel the entire 1/8 mile while being gradually scored and bent as it travels through the high-speed rollers such that it spits out bent panels into stacks at the end of the line. This is just one possible example of many, how it could be possible to manufacture the Cybertruck in previously unfathomable volumes and at very low unit costs. It's all about the machine that makes the machine.
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine - YouTube
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