Mr. Woychowski is a pure delight to listen to. So well informed, articulate, and engaging.

That hammer was from the original reveal demonstration of how tough the doors were

Credit to the camera person, great filming. Interesting video, well presented too.

i could listen to walter white talk about teslas all day

Seeing comments about this frame being more expensive to repair. You don't repair frames. Any insurance company totals the car if your frame has been compromised. John and Terry, thank you!

What a great partnership - Autoline and CareSoft. The Autoline audience learns much, CareSoft markets it skills to existing and potential customers.

0:50 It’s cool hearing how many parts got deleted by using the gigacastings. I appreciated hearing the list of processes all these parts go through. There is one more point on this. Tesla makes the gigacastings themselves, vs all these parts in the old frame structure would have been built by suppliers. That affects cost, quality control, the ability to change the design as you go, etc.

Terry is fantastic. I'll be back for all future videos featuring him. I've already watched your previous vids with him.

Guy is very good at explaining things. Love how he takes his time and clearly understands everything he is talking about. Makes it very easy to sit and learn.

15:25 I remember when I was a kid I rode in the back of a pickup truck and placed my fingers between the cargo box and the cabin. The cab, box and frame were separate pieces that flexed! And they started to flex on my fingers! Building all as one structure is a lot more rigid.

This was awesome!! I was glued to the tv. I love the Johnny Cash look too! This guy needs to be driving a blacked out Cybertruck! Do it!!

Such a pleasure to listen to someone who knows what they are talking about! Great job Terry and props to the cameraman!

Great video ! The technology evolution within Tesla is amazing. They use concurrent design to account for all functional and manufacturing requirements from the start of the project.

This was a great video and the explanations were really helpful. I learned things today. Thanks.

Excellent video, thanks.

Easily one of my favorite Tesla engineering videos! The engineering progression over only a few years is astonishing.

Thank you for another great presentation on Tesla from Autoline Network and Caresoft!

What a great analysis!

I saw that BIW in person at WCX. It's stunning to see how big that rear gigacasting is in person. It uses a lot of great materials/manufacturing technology that translates to ICE vehicles perfectly.

Tesla is the best car company ever! No gas stations, No oil changes, No smog check, No corrupt dealership, No catalytic converter and as fast as a $650,000 Lamborghini

Awesome presentation! I could hear him all day 👏👏👏

As I recall, the curvature in the front gigacasting ribs was designed to decrease flow time for the molten aluminum, thus enabling Tesla to utilize the smaller gigapress vs the 8 ton that IDRA had specified for the front casting. Tesla designs OUT so much cost, it is astonishing.

Giving Sandy Munro a run for his money.

Excellent. Thanks for making this video

As always very impressed. Much appreciated. Thank you.

Fantastic insights. THANK YOU.

Epic insights.

The vertical integration that the gigacast affords them is brilliant. I wonder how hard it is to update the cast based on the new findings.

Great info. Thanks.

Wow..! what a brilliant insight. I am so much delighted by this video. Thank you so much for this video.

What an interesting technology inside truck, great work and videos

Fascinating review

Crikey, that was some explanation of _GENIUS STUFF_ More Please!

Such a quantum leap from your Thursday's show that features Detroit insider dinosaurs hoping for the status quo to continue for the tradition auto market. Great video! Hope to see more.

Compare that breakdown to a mega off roader truck like a Land Rover, Jeep or Bronco and clearly Tesla is achieving an engineering masterpiece on a scale that will allow more cost savings with strength enhancements. Exceptional engineering. Benchmark.

Good show. Thanks.

More of this content, more detail Please.

Wow, very informative and I think they managed to say "exoskeleton" zero times... 😅

They just get better and better. Love my Model 3LR/FSD.

Beautiful, detailed explanation of engineering and implementation to reduce cost and provide workers' safe, easier assembly of both white bodies.

Much better, I love it.

Fantastic

I think structural rigidity, safety and longevity vastly improved as well besides dramatic loss in need for various parts both for assembly and any post fender bender issues. Very impressed by this and the need for safety gloves now too/as well. Be interested to see if Tesla finally gets serious about bumpers front and rear as appears to be the case with Cybertruck next as well. Hand brake would be greatly appeeciated as well.

We may not all like Tesla and I certainly have my issues with them and its leader, but there is no doubt that they have turned the automotive industry on its ear and kicked it in the pants in many ways, including in how the car is physically put together as efficiently as possible. Legacy manufacturers were cruising along for decades with the same build mentality because it worked and they knew how to do it very well, but now they are seeing that there are always ways to improve efficiency in construction and are slowly making those changes themselves. Making huge changes in how cars are put together is very expensive at the beginning but the benefits are gained in a pretty short amount of time.

I like this Sean Conery character

Facinating!

At 3:02 you show a crush can that looks like it’s made separately from the front the gigacasting. Build it as part of the gigacasting but design it so when it crushes you cut it off from the rest of the GC and then have a new part that sleeves on to the trimmed GC. You eliminate this pair of crush cans but you don’t need to sacrifice the whole GC in a minor crash.

very cool demonstration of Tesla engineering.

The stamping was of the CyberHammer

Design out cost and complexity. Thank you Mr Woychowski. And let me say now ITS BLOODY OBVIOUS! 44 years engineering in big auto world wide, I say engineering 50% of it was designing. Any engineer worth his / her salt shall follow that mantra or get the hell out. Ive seen 100s of "engineers" over the years add and add and add to solve problems, useless, its often interdepartmental politics to blame and/or lack of vision. In addition it should look right, and last it should be fun if you dont understand what I mean your in the wrong job. Thank you John these tear downs are so interesting.

fascinating stuff. thx guys and thx Tesla.

So the stainless steel exoskeleton is just a myth. The panels are completly useless from a structural standpoint. Just tacked or glued on for show effect. The weirdest fashion statement the car world has ever seen. Usually designers walk the extra mile to make things look rich or fancy or expensive, here they did walk 100 extra miles to make it look like a mad max home built.

I'm glad to have heard of caresoft now. I'm about sick of that other vehicle tear down channel. You guys know that one I'm talking about

Great video! I sure hope the glued-on and snap-fitted stainless body panels put the last of the "Exoskeleton" talk to bed.

Very good🤩

They need to teach this in all American schools. Amazing!

terrific.

Camera guy was listening, nice filming!

Wow! This was a great look at the *CyberTruck.*

1984 Pontiac Fiero Mill & Drill process is used on the casting bolt attachment points.

Obadiah Stane dropping knowledge

I really enjoy watching the Autoline channel take a pretty fair and balanced approach to Tesla vehicles. Edit: I believe electric vehicles are an inevitability from an engineering standpoint. Lower moving parts count and less tuning/maintenance requirements are key factors.

When I worked at Bud stamping. Taylor Steele meant 2 pieces. Well moved together on top of each other out of Taylor Steele. The Highlander.😊

Would like a breakdown of the Chinese competitors who have come up the learning and manufacturing curve faster than anyone anticipated. How are their cars from the inside ?

At 7:50 you talk about these steel inserts the bolts get threaded on to. Are these flat like washers or more like a T shape, with a big round part on the top with a tube going down?

excellent impartial information

Interesting. But there are good reasons why there are no cast aluminium airplanes or ships, and alunimium cars use sheet and forged aluminium. Castings are brittle and heavy compared to forged and pressed metals. The Corvette C8 uses large aluminium die-castings in its structure, but I can think of no other example. As for unity and simplcity, the Soviets thought milling parts from 60 foot long aluminium billets was a good idea for the TU-144 SST “Concordski” but they found that 60 foot long billets can result in 60 foot long cracks. Structural joints ans changes of material can act as rip-stops to limit cracks.

It’s interesting to see what gets spray on protecting and what doesn’t.

This is great and the Cybertruck frame construction is an amazing step forward from the Model Y, but it seems like the stainless ended up being purely aesthetic and not an "exoskeleton". It seems that they could have used a much simpler and more cost effective material that HFS for the exterior and save a ton of money even if it has to painted.

At 18:08 you were saying they mixed in some steel parts of the frame with the aluminum. Steel can bend vs aluminum will want to snap.

Brilliant coverage of the castings.

Thanks for the video! - So, for my 2.8m long three-seater small car for all terrains, similar to the original Smart two-seater, I think of a stable chassis and the plastic cabin sits on it (similar to eHang216). Or I make the whole car out of a single part? - The Cybertruck is too complex for me.

I would be interested to see how the castings are attached to the cab structure...

A bolted front motor mount would save a bit for weight for the rear-wheel drive models.

10:25 its more likely that if they had to weld the outside panels to the body it would discolor/warp the metal not to mention drives the costs up by taking time.

Thank you guys for these videos! Very educational and interesting. Imo you just grabbed the lead for Tesla teardown. Some other channels just make weird elmo-crybaby-videos laetly.

Very refreshing to see a real Engineer talking unbiased about what Tesla is doing I’m just coming from Sandy Munro last video what a difference hope that John doesn’t go back to Sandy he is going to loose all credibility.

This is simply amazing ! I can't wait for 2035 when all cars will be made like this ! All the combusters can walk the work if they don't like it !

What's the repairability for this type of setup?

On the 48V infrastructure, why not go higher to 120V (US domestic voltage)? Higher voltage infrastructure means less electrical resistance which could mean lighter wiring harnesses and motors (HVAC, power seats, etc. (not the propulsion drive motor which I understand uses a much higher and separate circuit voltage of its own anyway)).

Tesla did remove adjustable lumbar support in the passenger seat in Model Y, so they are certainly known to remove a feature or two in the name of cost cutting. No more stalk behind the steering wheel must also save them some money.

Can the castings be unbolted and replaced if they get damaged or can a shop buy a new one and cut out sections to replace and weld into the damaged vehicle?

Imagine these as skeleton bones. Try to picture what car it would look like. That’s how clueless we are about how dinosaurs would have looked.

Finally got to see what is behind the front fender. Looks like it can be repaired, it was one of my concerns. I doubt that anyone will be making aftermarket body parts though. Does anyone know if one can go to a tesla service centre and be able to get parts directly as an owner?

When Terry put those gloves on he looked like central casting for a hitman. haha.

In 15:00, what are those black-outlined white dots all over the upper part of the chassis?

if its not really an exoskeleton and just body panel bolt on, they can do a aluminum version of it? for europe? reduce weight, more sporty, carry more?

How easy is it to rebuild from a quarter impact?

And if ALL the exterior surfaces just “hang on”, then we can definitely say that this vehicle is NOT an “exo-skeleton” design … it’s just a standard “unibody” design …

Wow😮

What happened to the whole exo skeleton frame design with the cyber truck?

These guys make Sandy bombastic!😅

The Budd company in Detroit Pioneer using glue. The Highlander.😊

Great content. Do gigacastings make vehicles more expensive to repair?

Great video but got one important fact wrong. The stainless steel body actually contributes 30% overall rigidity

The thing I ❤️ about Tesla vehicles - be it car or truck - besides being exhilarating to drive🤗 - it’s that they have more eyes than humans, thus making them safer than humans. 👍

Easter egg -- > EPC: Homepage | Cybertruck | 10-BODY | 1010 Body Panels Closure Panels

16:10 What IS this piece??? Where does it fit in relation to the rest of the truck? It’s actually a separately cast part??

I’m wondering about the fire wall, the vertical metal that in ice cars separated the engine compartment from the cabin. Why is it vertical, straight up and down? Does that serve some purpose? Because I can’t think of any. It might work better canted at an angle leaned forward or back or some corrugated shape. I don’t know the engineering behind this but just thought making it completely vertical didn’t look like it served any purpose beyond ...we always did it this way and had no reason to change.

I love engineering!