Bill906
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Once production starts going, they don’t want much inventory lying around. Ideally they pull it from the gigapress and 45 minutes later it rolls off as a truck. Cooling times might slow that a bit, but they don’t want big piles of anything half-finished lying around, thats just stuff to break and stuff to manage.Makes sense. They're going to need a big surplus of castings to begin production, right?
I hope the metal doesn't require aging like the big pigs of cast iron that were rusting for a year before going to productionOnce production starts going, they don’t want much inventory lying around. Ideally they pull it from the gigapress and 45 minutes later it rolls off as a truck. Cooling times might slow that a bit, but they don’t want big piles of anything half-finished lying around, thats just stuff to break and stuff to manage.
There are usually piles of test castings lying around prior to production as they get the process dialed in.
This is absolutely not the case. They would need massive warehouses on site for that. I seriously doubt the cast assemblies are around for more than 8 hours before they are rolling around in a car.I hope the metal doesn't require aging like the big pigs of cast iron that were rusting for a year before going to production
I think in Fremont they have a piece of equipment which chunks them back up for recycling, but its possible the alloy changes a bit chemically when it solidifies and would need to be processed somehow. Pure speculation, I am not a metallurgist. I do like Megadeth but that doesn’t qualify.Can the rejects just be melted down and used again, or must they be recycled? It's possible the casting process alters the chemistry enough that the material cannot be directly re-used without degradation.
I don't know about what CAN be done. But just yesterday or the day before I saw an article quoting someone who worked at a recycling plant talking about showing up to work the other day and finding a large stack of what looked like Tesla front and rear castings that were there to be recycled. The article had an included picture too.Can the rejects just be melted down and used again, or must they be recycled? It's possible the casting process alters the chemistry enough that the material cannot be directly re-used without degradation.
Again hopefully next year- 2023 as 2024 Model. But don't rule out 2024 as 2025 Model. Nothing new.
2022 limited production is still on the menu. Speculation of course!
Well, no and yes.Can the rejects just be melted down and used again, or must they be recycled? It's possible the casting process alters the chemistry enough that the material cannot be directly re-used without degradation.