According to foreign media news, Sawyer Merritt and Alex Avoigt, investors who have been following Tesla shares for a long time, recently revealed on social networking sites that Tesla is currently developing a 12,000-ton GigaPress die-casting machine. After successful development, the machine will be used Die-casting the whole vehicle-level one-piece castings.
Based on the above information, this 12,000-ton integrated die-casting machine is likely to be used in the body casting of Tesla’s next-generation compact car. It is understood that Model Y is Tesla’s first attempt to produce a model using one-piece die-casting structural parts. It can be seen as the beginning of Tesla’s integration of more body parts. Tesla chose to perform integrated die-casting of parts at the rear floor, because under the current manufacturing conditions of a 6000-ton die-casting machine, it can only guarantee an integrated casting of such a volume. In the future, if you have higher pressure die casting equipment, the volume of castings will definitely increase further.