Tesla Gigapress maker IDRA has posted a new video of the 9,000 ton Cybertruck die casting machine in testing.
This is a huge machine with simple-looking, yet sophisticated operations. It will die cast the Cybertruck. Tesla is not joking around. Cybertruck production has been sandbagged. I mean Tesla has lowered the expectations from Cybertruck. It requires less strengths and core competencies in order to produce relatively greater-than-anticipated result.
Remember, Cybertruck doesn’t require any painting. Throughput will be off the charts once the production line and battery supply are dialed in.
IDRA is so important that there is a thought in twitter that Tesla should perhaps consider buying IDRA. However, one Twitter blogger, named Mike Ball, writes that according to his memory, Tesla has tried to purchase IDRA, but “the offer was rejected.” Do you guys remember anything like this? Please, let me know in the comments section below, or if you think it would be a prudent business decision for Tesla to purchase IDRA and make its own die casting machines, known as Gigapresses.
If you look at the images of this giant Cybertruck Gigapress, it’s hard to have a size perspective. But if you look carefully, you will see that the work bench that is next to the ladder on the left is about 3.5 ft tall.
This video alone should greatly concern every single automotive CEO on the planet, as it shows how the future cars will be made. This is just wild! The competition has no shot at matching Tesla’s production lines in the next 5 years.
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4:03 Cybertruck vs Model Y Interior View
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Impressive machine but you can't see the enclosed casting process as the molten metal injection is at high pressure and very fast.
Waiting for Sandy Munro/Munro Live to get his Cybertruck, and tear it apart for the youtube audience('get the skinny')!
Doesn’t matter how many Idra presses you buy?
What liquid metal will you be injecting??
Or ..who’s?
Tesla will have sell the secrets of the magic % of their proprietary alloy that injects, sets and ejects in milliseconds, making megaprocess economically feasible,
Natural oil applied between pressings.
Impossible? Just means it takes longer.
IDRA is more advanced than their competition. Elon Musk in person asked the four main makers of large presses. IDRA said maybe, for the 6,000 tons first giga press. After that came the request for the 8,000 for the Cybertruck , and that was changed for a 9,000 tons. The first one Tesla engineers colaborated in the final desing. IDRA has make all the others alone. If other manufacturers buy from Hydra, they will not have the Tesla special alloy or they will think it is not necessary. They are looking for smaller parts, so they will remain behind Tesla. Of course it will be better for Tesla to own that company, but if they fell they must have their own giga presses, they will do it by thenselves just as they are doing with lithium refinery..
Who was the idiot who said on a stage that the Cybertruck is “vaperware” ?
I want to hear his apology !
Repeatab.. I can't do that!!! (o:
Tesla does not need to own IDRA. They are building a shop to make dies that will work with the Giga press. Tesla can make changes to the dies/form to whatever they want and need.
Idra, which was taken over by Chinese group LK Industries in 2008, has been developing Giga Presses since 2016.
It doesn't have a mass of 9000 tonne but called a Gigi press because it presses a force of over 88.26MegaNewtons so it's developing almost 0.1GigaNewtons
The machine that makes the machine
Hope to God the molten alloy injector doesn't misfire and shoot a glob of the stuff.
Being rejected to purchase IDRA I think was the reason for Tesla building their own Dye shop in Austin.
Whether the press gets dirty or not depends on the shop practices: I worked in shops that had presses older than I was and each looked showroom new; I also worked in shops where in less than a year a newly installed press looked decades old and ready for a junk yard.
From what I know, IDRA is under Chinese command now… Simple to figure out why Tesla could not buy it. Geely, BYD, and a few other Chinese car companies are already ordered their huge presses from IDRA… The reason to allow TESLA to be the only foreign company with 100% ownership of its business in China is clear now, isn't it? Anyone has something from that want and need…
@Armen What benefit would there be for move to sustainable mobility if Tesla bought Idra ?
Production of casting machines is not core competence of Tesla.
NEWS! Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell at World AI Conference saying Tesla FSD may achieve Level 4 or Level 5 autonomy in 2023, while he also acknowledged that he has been wrong about this in the past. Here is what he said: https://youtu.be/hPOh8mIEHqs
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That was a lot about not much.
Configuring with price, range, and options next.
We always kept the press clean, very clean