Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Machining parts to that precision would exponentially increase the cost of the individual parts. This is something that will never ever ever happen and I’d be willing to bet my entire fortune on it. No Cybertruck will ever be mass produced with all it’s components within 10 microns of tolerance. Elon might roll one off the line like that to prove that it can be done, but nobody other than his billionaire buddies would be able to afford one.

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      And if he manages to get one off the line, it’ll go for 20 meters and then break down due to bearings and bushings being fouled.

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      It would probably cost tens or hundreds of millions to produce an entire car to those tolerances.

      Like that tolerance is literally insane.

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      1 year ago

      It is not possible to build car parts to that level of precision. They will warp more than that in the heat of the day. It is just a marketing pitch to the idiots who buy his crap.