Giga Castings with Sandy | Evolution of Tesla Bodies In White

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verdverm · 2023-11 · Recommendation

Yet Tesla has tried different things and now we see the larger auto industry singing a new tune. The most visible example of this is the GigaCast. The Old Auto companies never thought this was a viable path until Tesla showed how superior it actually is. [VIDEO] Sandy Munro is a leading expert in the auto industry, tears down all the vehicles and consults with all the major manufactures. He has many great videos on the trends. One thing he consistently points out is how adverse "old auto" is to new ideas or change of any kind, that they don't know how to innovate

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sixQuarks · 2022-10 · Recommendation

So it remains to be see if its a genius move from Musk, or if traditional spot welded designs are in fact the better approach. Fair enough. There is a chance it may not work as they planned, but the fact that they are buying more gigapresses tells me they are confident they will get it to work. Munro and associates did a couple of videos on gigcasting. They did talk about what happens in crashes and did not see it as a major concern. Munro is universally recognized as the leading experts in automotive manufacturing. link to video where they talk about cracking the gigacast and why it doesn't matter: [VIDEO] Watch the full episodes here: [VIDEO] [LINK]

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timschmidt · 2025-04 · Reference

> That's a single example > megacastings Wow, you brought your own counterexample! Cast frames were suggested to Elon by Sandy Munro. [VIDEO] To quote Sandy: "These guys at Tesla, they take everything you say literally, and then they go basically implement! It's amazing! It is truely to me amazing that these guys can do so much in such a short period of time." [LINK]

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