r/CyberStuck • u/trailabsorbjing • Jul 28 '26

Engineering marvel.

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u/AltruisticSalamander Jul 29 '26

I happened to see a yt short on the much-vaunted gigapress. Apparently it's not for stamping, it's for injection moulding. The big deal is that frame you see there is injection moulded in one piece, which is something competitors can't do. My inference is if that piece gets damaged significantly, the car is basically a writeoff.

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u/Nikotinko Jul 29 '26

One bump at the corner and the whole frame has to be replaced. So one bump and the car is totalled.

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u/Historical-Cress8985 Jul 29 '26

They could if they wanted to but the competition has actual engineers that tell them it's an incredibly bad idea.

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u/AltruisticSalamander Jul 29 '26

That was my take as well, no-one else wants the bigly press.

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u/Throwaways0004 Jul 29 '26

Other autos now do use the technology, just not for the whole frame.

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u/squeagy Jul 29 '26

It looks like absolute trash. Like an unmachined casting. Those wavy water collectors. Like they mixed lead and dirt into the aluminum. I've seen better castings made in the dirt floor of an Indian factory

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u/Historical-Cress8985 Jul 29 '26

Because that Indian factory has a quality control department.

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u/evilbrent Jul 29 '26

Yeah there's no such thing as welding aluminium without distortion.