Fun fact: Musk says that when Tesla was thinking about doing gigacasting, they called 6 suppliers of those machines asking if they can make 6 gigaton machine (which didn't exist at the time).
5 out of 6 said "no" and 1 said "maybe". I'm guessing that "maybe" was IDRA and they made 6 gigaton, then 9 gigaton (already in Texas for making Cybertruck) and there are rumors of 12 gigaton machine in development.
Another fun fact: Tesla body line pre gigapress was 1000 robots.
Doing front casting removed 300 robots, rear casting another 300.
So Tesla saved 600 out of 1000 (60%) robots, so the line is shorter and faster.
5 out of 6 said "no" and 1 said "maybe". I'm guessing that "maybe" was IDRA and they made 6 gigaton, then 9 gigaton (already in Texas for making Cybertruck) and there are rumors of 12 gigaton machine in development.
Another fun fact: Tesla body line pre gigapress was 1000 robots.
Doing front casting removed 300 robots, rear casting another 300.
So Tesla saved 600 out of 1000 (60%) robots, so the line is shorter and faster.