Tesla Drops Another BOMBSHELL Standard!

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[baldbikeboy]

What I enjoy about your videos is the marriage of scientific knowledge with your enthusiasm!

[louisvisagie]

But I thought GM was leading the industry because Mary Bara lead, and it mattered...

[robertvadjinia]

So many are getting this wrong… there are on average 200 wire harness connections in a typical vehicle… there are many connectors… maybe it’s 75, or 150, or 200, or 300 to choose from. A Cybertruck may have 43 connections, but now they can only accomplish those 43 connections by choosing between the best one on the 6 types for that connection… They are NOT reducing the total connector count to 6 for the whole vehicle.

[nelsonmacy]

These episodes are your kill zone ! Nice job John

[davidbeppler]

This is for Optimus. Easy matching connectors. Easy for a Robot to do.

[Derpy]

The diagonal pins is for 48V separation. The boxiness is for robot assembly.

These are the inline versions.

[chlistens]

I am fine with Tesla pushing the 48V architecture but until they convert the rest of there own vehicles to 48 V they are not pushing 48V.

[KilgoreTrout-wn]

In the medical field we have the CGA (compressed gas association) that set uniform connectors for medical gases. This makes a hell of a lot of sense. Imagine if every hospital in America had different connectors for oxygen or N20.

[Digital-Dan]

Most excellent, John. Thanks for digging this up and letting us know. Not exactly Molex. Recall that much of this will be installed in their so-called "Ethernet ring", which should further reduce the number of cables and the complexity of the harness.

[jtkstudios]

I would like to add one thing. The connectors need to be designed for BOB. Not just for installation but for disassembly and service.
In case you're wondering BOB is a blindfolded One-armed Builder.
As an Engineering Technician wire harness connectors are complex and easily broken upon disassembly

[rustyguinn]

There are not 200 different connectors in the cars. Just 200 connections. They don't say how many connectors are currently used. Whatever that number of connectors there are that number will be reduced to 6. Please correct this misstatement.

[terrym]

looks to me that they need a color code for quick I.D. as well.

[jsjs]

The control signals will probably be the well established Etherloop that supports high bandwidth transfers.
With that combination, you can run one connection to the rear, and add all lights, wiper, camera, speakers, towing hitch connector through it. And maybe ABS, too?
This is simply brilliant.

[johnpoldo]

I’m surprised these connectors are so long. Surely there is a reason. Too bad the photo doesn’t show size relative to a quarter coin.

[GG-sifw]

Aptera could adopt this first as well as Rivian or Ford.

[tedyoung]

Nice job on standardizing:
These 6 connectors can fit into two “cutouts”. The two 2-position connectors are one shell size, the 4-position and 6-position are all the same larger outer shell size

Greetings from an old retired wire harness design & mfg. guy

[markl]

I thought one of the main features of CANBUS was going to be fewer wires, less 'spaghetti' ; then legacy auto in Detroit got their hands on it ...

[frankdelao]

48V architecture allows for ribbon cables to be used rather than regular wires. Less copper reduces the cost of making a vehicle. Sandy Munro’s company tears apart vehicles and does cost analysis of how much it costs to make a particular vehicle, then sells detailed reports to competitors. Price saves was estimated to be around $600 per vehicle.

[SHO]

Thanks for this. Connectors are a big deal and getting them right the first time even bigger.

Imagine if USB had avoided all the earlier standards and had gone with USB-C from the beginning. Imagine how much pain that would have avoided. Same for HDMI. If VGA and early digital video has been avoided and gone right to HDMI from the get go, how much time could I have saved as a desktop support person 20 years ago if I hadn't had to screw down those damn VGA connector thumb screws to a difficult to get at and see monitor port👿.

If these are designed to be easy to use I'm betting it will make many a repair and body shop tech person very happy.

[gamerbombstudios]

One thing missed here is the "eather-loop" the eather loop is what will be the main connection between each part, having one controler for everyhting in each corrner of the car connected by a single wire rather than miles of it