Teslas made like Hot Wheels in the future?

[Protondecay123]

An article describing Tesla advances in die casting technology. https://electrek.co/2023/09/14/tesla-breakthrough-single-piece-car-casting-report/

 

[Kahpernicus]

Since electrek is TERRIBLE at sourcing:

Full article:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/... Texas, Sept 14 (,familiar with the move said.

 

[Crissa]

I don't see anything in the article that wasn't in investor day, however.

-Crissa

 

[Kahpernicus]

Investor day was the aspiration.

This article intimates that such a frame has been produced and just specifics need to be sorted out for the low cost model 2

 

[Crissa]

Intimates isn't the same as shows, cites, etc.

-Crissa

 

[ÆCIII]

My first ever Electric Car a long time ago was a Hot Wheels - Sizzler. The little charger that came with it was called a "Juice Machine", and the car could do just a few launches on one charge.

As I got a little older part of me didn't want to outgrow them because they were pretty fast for their size. I often just launched them on the hard floors instead of the Hot Wheels track because it seemed too confining.

Later once when I was in school, I calculated their (Scale Speed) for acceleration across the floor going for a distance of about 8 feet in one second. Based on a car length of about 18 feet scaled down to 3 inches, the ratio works out to 1/72 scale, and the (Scale Speed) calculates to 392 mph.

So at a young age, I learned that electric cars had potential to be Very Fast .

- ÆCIII

 

[Kahpernicus]

Well that's how anonymous sources work in reporting.

"I'm the lead person in charge of the gigapress my employee id is 3" would probably get them canned.

 

[Crissa]

I don't see any sources describing anything that Tesla didn't already said. Nor any breakthroughs. Just, a description of 'Tesla is doing what they said they were doing it might work for the $25k car!' which is... Uhh... The same thing we knew in April?

??‍

-Crissa

 

[charliemagpie]

Investor day was the aspiration.

This article intimates that such a frame has been produced and just specifics need to be sorted out for the low cost model 2

And that they are developing the Model 2 line at Austin right now. Makes me wonder how far they have gotten.

It was a couple of months ago, looking at the earthworks across the freeway, I said to my wife that something is going on.. There seemed to be a sense of urgency getting the ground ready.
They had/have multiple groups of machines just about covering the whole area at the same time.

Compared to the space they are using now, this area as a whole, far exceeds the needs of the typical production scaling we have seen. From what I have noticed thus far, Tesla builds things on a timely basis as needed. This area is huge and is being fast tracked to practically full completion.

Yes we also have the CT, and new production lines, but this area to me, is possibly getting ready for the Model '2' as well. And maybe sooner than we think.

 

[Protondecay123]

And that they are developing the Model 2 line at Austin right now. Makes me wonder how far they have gotten.

It was a couple of months ago, looking at the earthworks across the freeway, I said to my wife that something is going on.. There seemed to be a sense of urgency getting the ground ready.
They had/have multiple groups of machines just about covering the whole area at the same time.

Compared to the space they are using now, this area as a whole, far exceeds the needs of the typical production scaling we have seen. From what I have noticed thus far, Tesla builds things on a timely basis as needed. This area is huge and is being fast tracked to practically full completion.

Yes we also have the CT, and new production lines, but this area to me, is possibly getting ready for the Model '2' as well. And maybe sooner than we think.

I’m wondering how much “ scale of production “ would honestly be gained by this? I think it would decrease production costs significantly. Which would make Teslas more available to the public in general.

 

[almostakeeper]

It seems like the Austin plant will be the "womb" of all future Tesla's to be designed, initially built and then they will build a new factory to do the mass production. All the big brains are living in Austin, raising families, etc. Makes sense that they have 1 production line that can be totally revamped and fine tuned for future factories.