Sandy Munro talks Tesla Cybertruck manufacturing in Giga Texas tour
Automotive manufacturing professional Sandy Munro has launched yet one more video discussing the Tesla Cybertruck, this time speaking with Head of Automobile Engineering Lars Moravy and others about how the car’s metal panels are produced.
On Monday, Sandy shared a brand new episode of Munro Stay, which featured a tour of Tesla’s Cybertruck manufacturing line at its Gigafactory in Texas. The video exhibits how Tesla produces varied components of the Cybertruck’s arduous chrome steel alloy, together with a reasonably in-depth dialogue concerning the manufacturing course of.
Within the video, Moravy can also be joined by two engineers for the manufacturing line, one among whom notes that the Cybertruck’s metal panels function two thicknesses: 1.8 mm thick metal for the door panels, and 1.4 mm thick for all the car’s different panels.
Moravy additionally factors out that Tesla initially had 2.53 mm thick metal, although the automaker steadily improved the power of the metal materials in order that it may use thinner panels.
The tour of the manufacturing facility exhibits off numerous fascinating robotics, which may be seen shifting the stainless panels round, sending them by way of completely different components of the manufacturing line, and even holding door panels to be “air bent” into the shapes wanted to make up the car.
The air-bending course of is proven being carried out on future car doorways at round 28 minutes into the video, beginning with a flat panel that’s bent to a radius of about 5 mm on the within and round 8.78 mm on the skin, in response to Moravy.
Together with the video’s many detailed manufacturing discussions on the Cybertruck, Munro has put out a number of different deep dive movies concerning the car since its preliminary supply occasion. Munro additionally spoke with CEO Elon Musk concerning the Cybertruck earlier this month, and final week, Munro sat down with 5 of Tesla’s prime executives, together with Moravy.
You may watch Sandy’s full video on manufacturing the Cybertruck’s metal under, full with a tour of the manufacturing facility from Tesla Head of Automobile Engineering Lars Moravy.
What are your ideas? Let me know at [email protected], discover me on X at @zacharyvisconti, or ship your tricks to us at [email protected].
