According to Elon Musk Tesla will soon activate the world's largest Giga Press casting machine at its Fremont factory for the Model Y production, which is going to have significant consequences on the cost, weight and range of Tesla vehicles.

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Now, per Elon Musk's recent tweet, it appears that the Giga Press has been successfully installed in Fremont based on a pair of tweets from both Musk and, who indicated that the casting apparatus was available for use at the Northern California plant.

The Tesmanian reports.

Tesla strives to produce its cars with maximal efficiency and quality. That is why Tesla is constantly revising its manufacturing processes. One of the latest areas of focus is the vehicle body.

Model Y is the first application for which Tesla is using its new aluminum casting process. The automaker plans to switch to casting from 70 parts to 4 and then to 1. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says:

"We're moving to an aluminum casting instead of a series of stamped pieces. We'll go from 70 parts to 4, then 1 with a reduction in weight, improvement in MBH, reduction in cost, and a significant drop in capital expenditure for all the robots that used to put 70 parts together."

Tesla worked on several significant manufacturing improvements for the Model Y production program, and it includes the creation of a gigantic new casting machine to produce most of the Model Y frame in one piece.

Tesla plans to simplify the design of its future transport platforms and achieve greater automation in the manufacturing process. In summer 2019, the company published the patent “Multi-Directional Unibody Casting Machine for a Vehicle Frame and Associated Methods,” which discloses a new casting machine that Tesla plans to use for the Model Y.

The purpose of the design is to: “reduce build time, operation costs, costs of manufacturing, factory footprint, factory operating costs, tooling costs, and/or quantity of equipment.” The automaker notes that it will reduce the number of casting machines required to build a vehicle frame and that it could even build “a complete or substantially complete” frame itself.

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