How Tesla Cars Are Made So Fast - Meet the GIGA PRESS

The Giga Press is Tesla’s superpower. The reason Tesla is the super brand that it is. These giga presses are massive, ginormous beasts! In fact, they are so large, they would easily swallow your apartment whole and still have room! Crazy, right? These guys weigh over 400 tons and measure 20 meters by 7.5 meters by 6 meters. That is, 66 feet by 25 feet by 20 feet. These are huge! So huge that transporting them requires the use of over 20 flatbed trucks.

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[uriahgiroux]

So basically if you have an accident, your car is totaled, as there are only three parts to the chassis, so damage to one essentially means the entire chassis is destroyed. You can't remove a part.

[UQRXD]

A die cast car, just like the ones I collected as a kid. Full circle!

[techguy]

Sheet metal presses at GMC Truck and Coach in the 40s-70s were huge. They required foundations going down to bedrock and exerted hundreds of tons of force to create body panels and parts in a few seconds from rolls of steel. It was a deafening place to work with ten or more presses working constantly. The idea of die casting a frame is not really a press like in the past. A press assisted forge is more like it.

[mururoa]

"100, 000 units that's unheard of" 😂😂😂😂 Yeah, sorry but that's nothing to write home about.
GM's Talegaon Dhamdhere, Maharashtra (India) plant produces 160, 000 units annually.
GM's Arlington, TX plant produces roughly 245, 000 units annually.
GM's Wentzville, MO plat produces about 112, 500 units annually.
Toyota's plant in Georgetown, KY, produces 550, 000 units annually!
And the list goes on if you know how to google... 😉

[WestfieldFreshAir]

Making Tesla car chassis from larger parts may go someway to explain why they are expensive to repair and therefore insure. It may also explain the notorious panel gaps.

[sjschultz]

The Giga Press uses aluminum/silicon alloy for casting, not "silicone" as stated by the speaker.

[bobhenry]

So it's not actually a press. You press hardened material, you MOLD liquid material. Just because the molten material is forced into the mold rather than gravity fed doesn't make this a press. It's a reusable auto-mold that replaces sand molds. That's a good thing because sand molding is messy, time consuming, dangerous, labor intensive and takes up a lot of space.

[MikesTropicalTech]

You're mixing casting and stamping videos while you're discussing casting.

[konradwasylewski]

Meanwhile at Krupp steel factory in 1928 - yes, 95 years ago, there was a 15000 tons (!) press. LOL

[ffrige]

That’s simply an amazing, jaw dropping product from IDRA. They sell tens of millions of dollars of product to Tesla; at the same time, they must be feeling the pressure. I can’t imagine even a second of downtime on these machines on the production floor. These incredibly complex machine with thousands of moving parts operating at unimaginable pressure, stress, and temperature, while being the size of a house needs to be in tip top running shape 24/7, 365 days a year with no downtime other than routine maintenance. IDRA probably has a support staff on every factory floor these machines are installed in, of which are probably on call 24/7.

[HicSvntDracones]

This is why my model 3 sounded like a maraca everytime I hit a bump. prioritizing speed over quality of craftmanship

[jeroendesterke]

The question that isn't asked is, 'How does diecasting stand up to crash forces and deformation. like metal stampings?"

[mtang]

No wonder Tesla cars have not changed the looks. The beetle of the new era.

[matthewhuszarik]

It isn’t like Tesla invented the giga-press. There is a reason other manufacturers don’t use it. It make vehicles almost unrepairable. Now imagine what that is going to do for insurance rates?

[AlFreeman-xyjy]

The story goes that Elon Musk, in order to reduce the cost of his Tesla, asked 6 or 7 world manufacturers of presses if it would be possible to print the body in only 3 pieces, "it's not possible", "no, no one will succeed", they all said no except the Idra Group of Brescia (Italy) "why not? Sure!" and so the 6000 T Giga Press was born, now the 9000 T one is ready.

[samj]

Pretty cool. The crash mitigation they can cast in is probably another advantage to large cast parts. Crash repair may be a little tougher.

[PullTab]

It's not aluminum and silicone. It's aluminum and silicon. Silicone and silicone are two completely different materials.

[bobolulu]

Dont forget that in 1925, Henry Fords Hyland Park factory was producing 9500 cars A DAY, and not a gigapress in sight.

[slipperyslope]

In the world of presses, this isn't that big. But yes, presses are key to efficient manufacturing at any size.

[trevorgwelch]

I have a Gigga press in my kitchen it makes great espresso's 😊