Understanding The Exoskeleton / Body -- is there a frame underneath?

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They could inject that pink stuff they use for the battery pack.
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It could possibly float, stop water ingress
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You guys don't all think it's one piece of steel all just bent, right? I've had a couple discussions with confused people.

There is in fact a frame under there, the bent steel mounts to the exoskeleton.

Right???
Somebody came up with the term exoskeleton. Literally the term means outside frame. Now literally the term exoskeleton does not exclude other frames. As someone else in this forum has pointed out it refers to the frame formed by the a-pillar and b-pillar and other visible components. It does not mean there's not an "endoskeleton", a frame not visible outside the body
 

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...Do you know what a Simpson Strong-Tie is? It's right in the name. And yet it's not a frame for the house.

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The topic is about whether there is a frame underneath (the body) and most of the discussion is ignoring the fact there is a frame underneath the exoskeleton and body. I'm not saying they're the same thing, I'm simply saying the CT has a structural frame under everything.
When you say "there is a frame underneath the exoskeleton and body" it makes it seem like they are separate as on a body on frame vehicle. That frame is part of the exoskeleton, in the same way that on the Model Y that is all part of the unibody.
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