Elon Musk recently shared some details of Tesla’s collision repair strategy, and the company launched a vehicle made with one-piece castings. The update gives Tesla some understanding of emerging methods of car maintenance and repair, which is an aspect of the business of electric car manufacturers, and this aspect may become more significant as the company grows.
Considering that Tesla’s vehicles will be manufactured using large monolithic castings, members of the electric car community have been asking about the company’s strategy to repair the damage caused by accidents such as minor collisions. After all, if an electric car consists of only a small number of large castings, it will be very challenging to replace car parts.
In this case, Tesla seems to have proposed a fairly novel solution to deal with the potential challenges posed by single-piece castings. According to Musk, the anti-collision rails of vehicles like the German-made Model Y can be simply “cut off and replaced with bolted parts for collision repair.”
Considering that Tesla’s repairs today are already challenging and costly, it will be interesting to see if the company’s use of bolted parts will make repairs cheaper or more expensive.
In addition to updating Tesla’s collision repair strategy, Tesla’s CEO also provided some detailed information about the structural battery packs of electric vehicle manufacturers, which are expected to be used in vehicles such as S-shaped grids, Cybertruck A new car made in Germany. Y type. Musk said that structural battery packs can provide better torsional stiffness and improved extreme moment of inertia, thereby making Tesla’s vehicles safer.
The battery pack will be an adhesive structure with batteries that can transmit shear force between the steel upper and lower panels, thereby eliminating most of the central body parts, while providing better torsional stiffness and improved pole moments Or inertia. This is a *major* breakthrough.
“The battery pack will be an adhesive structure with batteries that can transmit shear force between the steel upper and lower panels, thereby eliminating most of the central body parts, while providing better torsional stiffness and improved Extreme moment of inertia. This is a major breakthrough,” Musk pointed out.
Interestingly, this detail was actually explained earlier by car maintenance expert Sandy Munro, who pointed out that structured batteries can make Tesla safer and less prone to accidents such as fires. As far as Musk is concerned, he recently appeared to confirm Munro’s insights and pointed out on Twitter that this veteran “knows engineering.”
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