Tesla Giga Press - Changes Car Manufacturing - Berlin Gigafactory [Bloomberg]

Tesla Giga Press - Changes Car Manufacturing - Berlin Gigafactory [Bloomberg]
Bloomberg's Stefan Nicola visits Tesla's Gigafactory in Germany and explains how the Giga Press changes car manufacturing, Bloomberg Quicktake: Explained
Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg.
Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg (also known as Gigafactory Berlin, Gigafactory 4 or Gigafactory Europe) is a European manufacturing plant for Tesla, Inc. under construction in Grünheide, Germany.
Gigafactory Berlin will manufacture batteries, battery packs, powertrains and seats with work including casting, stamping, painting, drivetrain assembly and final assembly of Model Y and future models with an annual capacity eventually reaching 500,000 cars. Initial production will be of the Tesla Model Y. The expected cost for the factory is around €4 billion.
In 2019 Jerome Guillen indicated that Tesla Grohmann Automation were working on a "giant, giant, giant machine" to "make full-size cars in the same way that toy cars are made. With our giant casting machines, we are literally trying to make full-size cars in the same way that toy cars are made
Elon Musk, (18 January 2021).
The two biggest casting machines in the world had been purchased by Tesla, according to Elon Musk in April 2020, to enable casting the Tesla Model Y rear chassis and crash rails as a single component. In January 2021, Elon Musk announced that also the rear chassis of the Tesla Cybertruck would be produced using an over-8,000-tonne-force (80,000 kN) casting machine. On 16 March 2021, an order had been placed with Idra for the first 8,000-tonne die machine.
As of October 2021 Tesla had five casting machines installed at Giga Shanghai, two machines installed at the Tesla Factory in California, two machines installed at Giga Berlin, and two machines at Giga Austin-plus foundations in preparation for many additional Giga Press machines.
Die structure
Tesla's Model Y rear casting die has four known visible parts:
2 big classic main facing dies, oriented vertically with injection from the bottom of the immobile one.
2 smaller side wedging dies, moving in for injection and out for removal.
As of July 2020 plans for the Tesla Giga Berlin factory in Brandenburg included provision and piling foundations for eight 6,100-tonne-force (60,000 kN) die casting machines.
Tesla Model Y vehicles built at Giga Berlin will have a redesigned structure. European Model Y cars will use a front chassis megacasting, in addition to the rear chassis megacasting. The first 1‒2 Giga Press machines at Berlin will be required for the Model Y chassis production, with the remainder allowing flexibility in casting large numbers of parts quickly. The first two European Giga Press machines were planned to be delivered to Giga Berlin by the start of 2021.
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