Comment by londons_explore
7 years ago
Rumours are this will be folded rather than pressed...
Is there a source for this? I'd press parts if I were designing it - unless you want welds showing at the corners!
7 years ago
Rumours are this will be folded rather than pressed...
Is there a source for this? I'd press parts if I were designing it - unless you want welds showing at the corners!
Motortrend are saying this (They had access to it back in September).
It's going to drastically reduce production costs.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pi...
I don't agree - as soon as you need to make more than one fold in a bit of steel, then pressing becomes cheaper in volume.
People fold prototypes because the press dies are expensive to make, but when made, a press can fold all the edges at once.
Even cheap washing machines are all pressed steel.