Tesla wants to cast the front frame part of the Model Y made in Giga Berlin in one piece. Two Giga Presses are enough, but find out why Tesla is bringing eight.
TeslaMag reports.
Every new Tesla factory is supposed to be better than the previous one, and according to CEO Elon Musk, the electric cars produced in it are also constantly being developed under the hood for more efficient production. For example, it is already known from the Gigafactory currently under construction in Grünheide near Berlin that Tesla intends to use eight of the giant die-casting machines that Musk first spoke about at the beginning of this year. According to a Tesla patent from 2019, four of them would be enough to manufacture the frame for a complete car from a single source. But as teslamag.de found out during a tour of the construction site for the German Gigafactory, the plans have not yet gone that far.
Eight Giga presses for German Tesla factory
The house-sized die-casting machines are referred to as Giga presses by their Italian manufacturer Idra, who previously supplied Tesla with smaller systems of this type. Tesla ordered two of them, said CEO Musk in an interview this April. As soon as they are installed, the rear frame part of the Model Y is cast in one piece. The Tesla Model 3 still consists of 70 pressed individual parts, the Model Y currently consists of two large elements plus connectors. The two Giga presses have already been seen outside the Fremont electric car plant in California, one of which is said to be producing parts on a test basis.
Musk has also already made it clear that this simplification is not yet to end. On the one hand, it is to follow later on with Model 3, on the other hand, Tesla wants to go even further with Model Y. A patent that became public in mid-2019 even describes four large die-casting machines that together produce the complete frame for a Tesla vehicle made of aluminum. Because four of the giant machines in a group are shown close to each other in the Tesla applications for the German Gigafactory, it was even conceivable that the complete casting would already be implemented in Model Y from this new factory - and twice.
The front frame of the Tesla Model Y as cast aluminum
But it's not that far yet. This was revealed last week by Evan Horetsky, who is responsible for the construction of the German Gigafactory at Tesla, during a tour of the construction site with journalists. When teslamag.de asked directly whether the frame for the German Model Y with the two four Giga presses would be cast from one piece, he answered in the negative. Tesla in Grünheide is still going one step further: The front part of the frame for the Model Y will also be made there using the casting process, said Horetsky.
This is new as a concrete confirmation, even if the Tesla expert and decomposer Sandy Munro had previously speculated about it. The Gigafactory boss did not go into any more detail but explained that the front frame of the German Model Y will be cast in one piece, as soon as the rear in Fremont. Apparently, one or a maximum of two of the Giga presses are sufficient for this. When asked why eight of them are planned in Grünheide, Horetsky said that Tesla wanted to be able to cast a large number of parts there very quickly.
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