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Tesla's Giga Press Arsenal
Fremont 🇺🇸
In April 2020 Elon Musk announced that Tesla purchased the biggest die casting machine in the world to cast the Rear Underbody of the Tesla Model Y, which at the time was already ramping up production using a 2 separate casting solution +
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This video is the perfect example of one of Elon Musk's most famous quotes:
“The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist”
@elonmusk
In the first part of the video we can see robot arms seam sealing the chassis of a car, which is a
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So many people at the new Tesla Store & Service Center in Verona! North Italy 🇮🇹
Many of the people who showed up don't drive electric cars and came specifically to try out Teslas.
Many people waited in line for hours to take a test drive.
Great job
@Tesla
Italy! Source:
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Tesla Model Y Juniper 2025 👀
📷1: Spotted by JackIjack /Reddit
📷2: Concept
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Elon said for the second time this week that Tesla “is no longer AI training compute constrained”.
I don’t know if you realize what it means
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Model Y with Front & Rear Gigacasting at the Shareholder Meeting
370 Fewer Parts!
3 7 0!
10% Mass Reduction!
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The contractors saw their fans all over the internet and put up a banner for some free advertising 😂👌🏼
📷:
@JoeTegtmeyer
2/2 Casting walls to add more receiving doors where foundation screw-type piers are being installed. On the W side, new red & silver items stored next to the 18 EVAPCO fan units, equipment on NE of the Cathode plant & more S ext roofing completed. Much more coming up later today!
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@Tesla
State of incorporation - Texas ✅
Headquarter - Texas ✅
Lithium refining - Texas ✅
Cathode production - Texas ✅
Cell manufacturing - Texas ✅
Vehicle manufacturing - Texas ✅
AI Training - Texas ✅
The future of sustainable and energy independence - Texas ✅
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Sources revealed that TESLA ordered 3 ~ 9,000 T GIGA PRESS for the Cybertruck.
I decided to reveal this information since Tesla has said publicly that the production target for the Cybertruck will be 250,000 units, the numbers match!
One Giga Press can produce 166,666 parts per
I was told that the second 9,000 T GIGA PRESS for the Cybertruck will be ramped up by Q1 2024 in order to have one machine dedicated to Rear Castings and one to Front.
It seems that the ramp up is going well!
November 8th vs 10th
📷:
@JoeTegtmeyer
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Look at the flow of liquid metal in the die of a 20,000 ton Giga Press with dual injection system 🤯🌊
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Cybertruck Castings Breakdown - Part 1
From
@teardowntitan
's interview with the Tesla team.
Front Casting
Tesla's remarkable efficiency in design enables the production of Cybertruck Front Castings using the same Giga Presses utilized for the Model Y.
Lars indicates that only
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Ex Tesla director of body repair program, John Sweigart about Tesla’s engineering and the competition
Special guest: The Cybertruck 📐
🎥:
@EvolveEvCare
/YT link below
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@matteosalvinimi
Mi rende davvero felice sapere che ora le persone possono sfondarsi di alcol senza conseguenze e lo stato le ricompenserà pagandogli il trasporto 👍🏼
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6 IDRA 🇮🇹 Giga Press installed inside Giga Berlin 🇩🇪 confirmed ✅
Potential combined annual output:
1 Million Castings
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WORLD’s FIRST FULL UNDERBODY GIGACASTING 🇨🇳
This Gigacasting was realized by Chery Auto using a 13,000 ton Giga Press with a dual injection system
The machine was made by LK Machinery and it’s available for testing
That’s a lot of f*ing aluminum
See the CFD simulation below👇🏼
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I have tracked over 120 Giga Press orders.
(above 6,000 tons).
The vast majority of which from Chinese T1 Suppliers.
There are still legacy OEMs with NO plans to switch to Giga Castings.
@elonmusk
: "(Chinese OEMs) will pretty much demolish most other companies in the world"
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An embarrassing sabotage attempt against Tesla and Giga Press technology
🇫🇷 The French Automobile Distribution Federation (FEDA) calls on the government to assess the risks and to take measures against Giga Casting "dangers" for the environment and families
The letter begins
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“TESLA RETREATS FROM NEXT GEN GIGA CASTING”
• Not really...
The article from Reuters claims that Tesla was developing a new way to cast the underbody of its cars.
Instead of casting the front and rear underbody in two pieces they would cast the entire underbody of the “Model
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First Made in America 9,000 t Giga Press 💪🏼🇺🇸🦅
After the first 6,000 t Giga Press assembled at BühlerPrince facility in Holland, Michigan, here comes the first 9,000 t machine built on American soil.
The customer is still unknown.
📷: Steve Jacobson, BühlerPrince President
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To what extent can Giga Castings be repaired?
In this document, Tesla outlines the repair process for each component, which hinges on the specific location of the damage.
Tesla created a color coded image of the front casting highlighting different areas in blue, green, yellow,
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Giga Casting side frame concept
The concept shows how a car side frame can be made with a Giga Press.
This is a prototype made with a sand casting
📷: Elias Schläpfer on LinkedIn
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This gerber guy went from loving Tesla to deliberately spreading disinformation.
Almost at the level of the worst $TSLAQ warriors.
No respect.
📷:
@SawyerMerritt
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I’ve never seen so many Cybertruck Giga Castings all at once 📐🤠
The two 9,000 T Giga Press are cooking!
2/2 storage while a lot of conduit progress on the N end. E casting foundation work continues with rebar while 100s of new castings are temporarily staged along 1/3 of the length of the factory & on N end! Concrete pours on final parking garage ground floor! Much more in my video
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A Model Y with a missing tailgate just became Tesla's next gen vehicle
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@ScrewderiaF1
The way Massa uses Italian insults so perfectly 😂 you can tell he learned them from the Ferrari crew
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Tesla Model X for the Italian Police 🚨🇮🇹
This car is the first EV used by the Italian police for highway patrol.
It was bought by CAD (Concessioni Autostradali Venete) and it’s currently serving in Veneto.
@DonutOperator
@andst7
@elonmusk
@rohanspatel
📷:
@vaielettrico
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Video from the crash test site at Giga Texas 🤠💥
The vehicle is being dragged in that little pool in order to fully submerge the battery in case it catches fire when Tesla tests the behavior of high SOC batteries after an impact
🎞️: Donald O’Neil
@JoeTegtmeyer
$TSLA
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Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Will Cook 50 GWh of Lithium per Year once Completed 🔥
Greetings from Tesla’s Lithium Plant near Corpus Christi! Huge amount of progress since my March video! The 1st of two parallel processing facilities is well underway, with the rotating kiln & cooler plus support infrastructure looking much more completed! The hydro metallurgical
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@SawyerMerritt
@Tesla
Ok, where is the $40,000 Lucid then?
Oh wait there isn’t even a profitable $100,000 Lucid
Perhaps he means leaders in advertising or something else…
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XPENG’s 16,000 T GIGA PRESS HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED
The world’s first 16,000 ton Die Casting machine has been delivered to Guangdong Hongtu, a tier 1 supplier in China
It will be used to supply Xpeng with “ultra large die casted parts” and battery packs
Guangdong already
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Ross when Tesla is up ~190% YoY vs when Tesla is down 16% YoY or 60% from ATH
Don’t be an emotional investor
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Tesla’s training compute it’s truly not the bottleneck anymore
Elon promised updates every two weeks
12.3.4 came out 10 days ago
12.3.5 is rolling out now
Elon just hinted at 12.4
Do you understand?
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Based on the info I have gathered, Legacy OEMs will start introducing Giga Castings in their electric vehicles between the end of 2025 and 2026
3 years after the Chinese
6 years after Tesla
These Legacy are: Volvo, Toyota, Hyundai, an undisclosed company which I believe to be
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SANDY MUNRO ON GIGA CASTINGS:
"Everyone is moving in that direction except for VW, they have to cut one third of the entire company and have no money left for R&D"
IDRA 🇮🇹 is a savage for posting this 😂.
@teardowntitan
@live_munro
Source: IDRA YT (link below)
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Tesla is still the Undisputed Giga Casting Champion 🏆
1st pic▪︎2020 Model Y Rear
2nd▪︎2023 Cybertruck Rear
3rd▪︎2022 Model Y Front
4th▪︎2023 Cybertruck Front
Tesla's design improved by far in the years.
The new castings are completely different, both in the overall
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I was told that the second 9,000 T GIGA PRESS for the Cybertruck will be ramped up by Q1 2024 in order to have one machine dedicated to Rear Castings and one to Front.
It seems that the ramp up is going well!
November 8th vs 10th
📷:
@JoeTegtmeyer
The 2nd big news from Giga Texas this morning. I saw 14 Cybertrucks outside (2 by helicopter pad, 2 at the Superchargers and 10 in the outbound lot. Also, 6 Cybertruck bodies at the recycle yard on the far E side, and over 100 Cybertruck front castings as well! Here are a few
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🇮🇹 IDRA's General Manager John Stokes about Tesla:
"As we know the majority of the OEMs are somewhere around 5 years behind Tesla"
Full video:
@JoshWest247
link below
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@niccruzpatane
I have a better idea, it works at least in USA, Poland, Czech Republic (and more):
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At Giga Texas, Tesla is experimenting with different cooling systems on the Giga Press to reduce cycle time.
(I recommend you read the attached post first for relevant contextual information).
On the left, the traditional system adopted at all Tesla's factories, it is probably
What is the current Giga Press production rate?
To answer this question we can look at official production data provided to us by Giga Shanghai and
@troyteslike
's estimates regarding Fremont.
Elements to take into account;
▪︎ Giga Shanghai has 5 Giga Presses installed,
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A New Giga Press platen was spotted at Giga Texas by
@JoeTegtmeyer
🤠
But there is an interesting detail.
You can read on the wooden crate
“DCM
#6
” or “Die Casting Machine 6”.
This means that in the recent weeks IDRA delivered 2 additional 6,000 T Giga Presses.
Bringing the
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Giga Italy? 🤌🏼🇮🇹
According to Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian government in recent weeks held serious talks with Tesla for the production of the Tesla Semi and/or electric vans in Italy
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The Cybertruck body in white under sunlight, it shows off the front and rear Giga Castings 🤩
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🇮🇹 Riccardo Ferrario, IDRA General Manager:
"The Giga Press was very important for us for two reasons;
The first, the satisfaction of having created a new path for foundries, but above all, for car makers which can now make cars at more advantageous prices and therefore give the
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Tesla Hit A New GIGA PRESS Record 🏆
According to
@TroyTeslike
, Tesla’s Fremont plant produced 74,200 Model Ys in Q4 2023.
Dividing quarterly production by the number of machines installed and multiplying the result by 4 we get the yearly production rate per single Giga Press.
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The 2 Giga Presses at 🇮🇹 Idra's 2nd International Forum are for Hyundai and Ford
▪︎ OL 9000 CS for Hyundai
▪︎ OL 6100 CS for Ford
According to Reuters, Idra has signed orders for 25 machines, 21 produced and shipped, 14 for Tesla.
It lines up with my numbers
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Financial Times: Thierry Breton did NOT have permission to send the letter to X and
@elonmusk
Typical unelected bureaucrat moment 🤡
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CAN YOU REPAIR A GIGA CASTING?
Yes!
Early on, Giga Castings were not repairable, you had to replace the entire casting with a new one.
Since then a lot of repair methods were developed, for example you can cut parts and attach a new one with rivets or structural adhesive.
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NEW IDRA DELIVERY TO TESLA 🇮🇹🤝🇺🇸
@JoeTegtmeyer
spotted 2 new wooden crates from IDRA which were delivered to the die shop this morning
It’s IDRA delivery day at Giga Texas … this time to the DIE shop! Two heavy lift trailers on Semi-trucks plus additional wooden crates arrived today & moved directly inside the W door of the Addie shop where bridge cranes will unload the crates! This is important for Casting
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Look at the difference between the cross car beams from Tesla and other OEMs.
📷 1)
• Ford F150 Lightning
- cast magnesium + lots of bolted brackets
- 8.7 kg
• GMC Hummer
- 12.84 kg
• VW ID4 (below Hummer)
- 8.4 kg
📷 2)
• Tesla Model Y
- hydroformed aluminum tube +
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UFC Champion, Sean Strickland about his Tesla
And there are still people who believe that Tesla's customers are just environmentalists from California who get offended by Elon's comments on X 😂
Video by
@ninamdrama
on YT
#UFC297
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Gigacastings explained by a member of Tesla’s Engineering Task Force “25 Guns” ~ Pieter-Bas Bentinck ⚡️
🎥:
@FullyChargedShw
/YT link below
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Giga Berlin will shut down for 5 days for production optimization.
The Giga Press section is excluded from the shutdown and will keep production going.
Pirates don’t take days off 🏴☠️💪🏼
Cell production will continue as well. $TSLA
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3 PLATEN vs 2 PLATEN GIGA PRESS
You have all heard of Giga Press and know that they are enormous die-casting machines with very high clamping forces, up to 16,000 tons.
But did you know that there are two different types of die casting machines?
The 2 types are divided based
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Giga Castings must be repairable up to a 60km/h crash.
FEDA requests to the French government.
(I recommend you read the attached post first for relevant contextual information).
🇫🇷 The French Automobile Distribution Federation (FEDA) has been received by the french government
An embarrassing sabotage attempt against Tesla and Giga Press technology
🇫🇷 The French Automobile Distribution Federation (FEDA) calls on the government to assess the risks and to take measures against Giga Casting "dangers" for the environment and families
The letter begins
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@alex_avoigt
Good analyses, also note that in HPDC, a more efficent, less intricate design is equivalent to less clamping force required.
This is why the Xpeng X9 mini van requires a 12,000 tons Giga Press, while the Cybertruck only a 9,000 tons one despite being about the same size.
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Cybertruck Castings make the structure Extremely Simple and Precise but also Increase Rigidity and Safety
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Giga Shaghai making the rear underbody of the Model Y in one piece is nothing new
❗However, in the original article, the reporter claims that he visited Giga Shanghai and tells additional informations:
"Tesla is upgrading its die-casting technology to version 2.0, which
#Tesla
Shanghai Plant Produces Model Y With Integrated Die Casting That Significantly Reduces Costs
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I remind you that there are no Giga Castings on the upgraded Model 3.
Main reasons:
▪︎ There is no capacity left at Fremont for more Giga Castings production.
The two Giga Presses are close to full production for the Model Y line and they probably hit a new record in Q4.
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$TSLA
If you think the 4680 program is stalled, here's what Tesla engineers think 👇🏼
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NEWS: Idra 🇮🇹 is developing new Magnesium castings technology
Don't worry, it's just nothing, it's not like Magnesium castings are 34% lighter than Aluminum ones
Just hours ago in Italy, the inventors of EV giga-casting at Idra launched to the market a new generation of magnesium die casting technology. Even got a call-out: "Alex is here, making metal from seawater, you can buy from Alex or the Chinese!" It will be an easy decision...
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Cybertruck Castings Breakdown - Part 2
From
@teardowntitan
's interview with the Tesla team.
Production Rate & Forecast
To start, let's paint a comprehensive picture by outlining three key data points:
1) Right now the highest production rate that tesla was able to pull out
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BREAKING: A Legacy OEM placed an order for 6 Giga Presses for one of its American factories 🇺🇸
The 6 machines have a clamping force above 6,000 tons and will be installed by the end of 2025.
If the process is optimized properly, it could mean a production capacity up to 500,000
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I predict that Idra’s next Giga Press shipments to Tesla will go to Giga Texas
The reason is simple.
1) Tesla ordered 3 9,200 tons Giga Press. Only 2 were delivered.
2) Giga Texas has only 4 ~6,000 tons Giga Presses, enough for 670,000 castings/year.
The 4 ~6,000 tons
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Cybertruck Giga Castings cracked?
After taking a moment to look better at this image (📷1) which show a Cybertruck casting following an off-road accident, I can say with certainty that the line is not a crack, but rather a seem.
In fact that line in that same spot is also
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LK Machinery released a Tesla-style flyover through its Giga Press factory in China 🇨🇳 showing off their new 16,000 ton machine
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Xpeng 12,000 tons Giga Castings.
Xpeng claims that their new X9 mini van, thanks to its 12,000 ton Rear Giga Casting can withstand rear end collisions up to 88 km/h without compromising the safety of the passengers in the third row.
Xpeng unveiled their new minivan just a
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The Financial Time posted a graphic explaining the Unboxed process that Tesla presented at Investor Day
Link to the full article below 👇🏼
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Idra 🇮🇹 posted this video on LinkedIn, showing a 9,000 t Giga Press in Tesla color scheme
Link below
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EXCLUSIVE: TPI UNLOCKS 30% LIGHTER GIGACASTINGS 🪶
TPI Technology, or Thixotropic Piston Injection, sent me this table detailing their upcoming products which will enable the production of Gigacastings that are over 30% lighter, stronger and more cost-effective
The various
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Tesla had enough and sent papers to other OEMs to teach them how to design a 48-Volt vehicle.
Tesla Masterclass 👌🏼🤣
I BET You didn't know this (wild 🤣)
@Tesla
sent a pamphlet to the CEO of every other car company, entitled:
"How to design a 48-Volt vehicle"
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Tesla to start road testing in FSD Beta in China 🇨🇳
It is expected to roll out in three cities: Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen
@teslashanghai
is this reliable?
You anticipated in August that FSD would arrive in China soon $TSLA
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IDRA resumed deliveries of Giga Press equipment at Giga Texas in the past 2 weeks 🇮🇹🤝🤠
This might be the third 9,000 ton Giga Press
But Tesla needs more 6,000 ton machines if they want to ramp up the Model Y, the Cybertruck and the next generation of vehicles. $TSLA
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@SawyerMerritt
Inviting Chinese EV companies CEOs, making them sit in first row and show everybody their reaction to the price live was a gangster move 😂
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Tesla 4680 and BYD Blade packs used on the Model Y are the same.
Both are structural and require Rear + Front Giga Castings.
Left: Texas Tesla 4680 (📷:
@DrKnowItAll16
)
Right: Berlin BYD Blade (📷: A2MAC1)
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