Munro sees how Cybertruck's Hard Freaking Stainless Steel Body Panels are Blanked, Bent, and Built @ Production Factory

[CyberGus]

Doors at 1.8 mm is about the thickness of a US nickel.
Other panels at 1.4 mm about the thickness of a US penny.

Feels more like nickel-and-dime

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[Rutrow]

Feels more like nickel-and-dime

Tesla is nickel and diming their CyberTruck customers.

 

[TechOps]

I'm really happy to see this, as a shareholder and future CT owner.

Shareholder = less material, lower COGS, 80% efficiency in stamping (/lasing) out parts. Front casting at 6,500 tons, using smaller gigapress, is great for cost and speed.

Owner = amazing safety with less weight, lower cost to replace damaged panels, which means insurance rates shouldn't be as high.

 

[anionic1]

But yet the truck is lighter.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

Lars Moravy, Head of Vehicle Engineering gave Sandy a tour of the Giga Factory in Austin Texas and showed us how they build the panels for the Tesla Cybertruck.

Video confirms that the door steel is 1.8mm thickness and rest of exterior panels is 1.4mm

I found it interesting that the inners are stamped stainless.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

fascinating - can't believe the scale and how much stuff they had to invent to bring this to market. Explains the delays...

But they see much closer to ready for volume production than Elon suggested last month.

 

[Rutrow]

I found it interesting that the inners are stamped stainless.

Especially after Elon and Franz have said sooooooo many times that "you can't stamp stainless steel"

 

[BayouCityBob]

Interesting to hear Lars say that the exterior door panels (exoskeleton / not exoskeleton) carries 75% of the side impact load and that is why they are a bit thicker.

 

[BayouCityBob]

Just watched it, fantastic video and amazing work by the Tesla engineers!

It is astonishing to see how much invention is in this vehicle. Really impressive.

 

[Kahpernicus]

In the video he said the inner doors are stainless.

The cabin body is boron steel. (also said in the video)

 

[Alpine]

Key statement @ 20:30

 

[SlegMD]

What a cool tour.

Definitely not gettin be a “tear down”, we’re getting in reverse.

Felt like we were on the Deathstar, would have been funny if they had storm troopers patrolling as a joke for the video.

 

[TechOps]

1.4mm is 17 gauge. 1.8mm is 15 gauge. Not all that thick, but definitely a bit thicker than standard non-load-bearing panels.

A. Elon does occasionally say things that are incorrect.
B. That's incorrect. They're high strength steel stampings, that are spot welded together.

The Cybertruck features the world's largest door ring, made of hot stamped high-strength boron steel with tailor welded blanks. The single piece inner and outer are spot welded together, and powder coated black. All of this is done in-house at Giga Texas. This was explained by Lars Moravy in Munro's video last week.

The front casting is bolted into the door ring at the A pillar. Looking forward to see how rigid this truck is.

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