Tesla’s Master Class In Modular Assembly - Autoline On The Road
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- Caresoft is a company that specializes in vehicle teardowns and benchmarking. It has great insights into how Tesla designs its cars for modular assembly, especially in how Tesla eliminates fasteners and complexity. It even points the way to how Tesla will develop its new unboxed assembly process. Autoline’s John McElroy interviewed Caresoft’s Han LY at the IAA in Munich to see the front and rear assembly process of an Austin-made Model Y.
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This is an INCREDIBLY insightful video. Thanks. Tesla's engineering is next level insane.
Re: Supplier Accommodation. Actually maximizing parts commonalities across all Tesla models makes it easier & more predictable to optimize supplier production lines & even incorporate enhancements as those opportunities present themselves. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!
If, that's a big "if" some legacy auto survives this automation system, the unions days are numbered...
they are already gasping HARD as the new EU laws on emissions are advancing. european legacy automakers wants the government to step in to stop the new brands to rob them from their customers, and their billions of revenue of servicing ice cars...@@mbabcock111
Wow how did I miss this video 🤯
You should do a video on this , SMR!
Maybe Tesla can just sell us the kit at a discount and we can assemble it ourselves in an afternoon 😂
like in ikea
Like Ikea does with furniture!
Something like an oversized Airfix model?
Hehe yes please!
Assembly is cheap for them and shipping, unlike ikea, is easier once assembled. The end product literally drives itself 😂
Holy moly! I think even I could put the car together. I cant believe no other channel ever showed this (even you SMR)!
Sandy Munro does some of this, but not to the scale of here lets rebuild the car.
You can put it together on a weekend. This should in theory also reduce repair costs.
Reminds me of the snap tight plastic model car kits I used to build as a kid.
I’m sure SMR could work up a reaction video to Autoline.
He’s a spy for Vinfast!
Thank you, John! This is an absolute home run. You guys are bringing us the largest dollar consumer product adoption in history and I can't thank you enough for your in depth coverage. . So many still think an electric car is a gas car with an electric propulsion system. Not so fast!
Well, it wasn't always that way, and John still holds court with a couple of 4 barrel carb guys., and they all used to laugh at Tesla. Times change
This demo (charade) is an absolute farce aimed at low information fanboys.
That's impressive! I see why Tesla is able to build their EV's to scale and meet the demand. Their manufacturing and assembly is on a whole other level!
But they gonna replace workers with robots. What about the workers
@@KalsRcAdventuresbut inexpensive cars though. What if you could get a Tesla for $15k? Brand new?
@therJrep u not getting what I'm saying lol. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@KalsRcAdventures you’re not getting what I’m saying. You think technology and increases in efficiency is bad?? 🤣
@therJrep again u not getting me. 😒
Finally someone that pronounces giga correctly.
Amazing, this 10min video shows the difference between legacy Automakers vs Tesla
One of many 😀
I hope Fain is watching this
The only thing is shows is how little it takes to fool low information fanboys. A complete farce.
@@heathwirt8919if by “fool” you mean present a factual demonstration of the simplicity of assembly the cars have been designed with, then yes it is fooling people…
@@SyntheticSpy A demonstration so dumbed down even a know nothing tesla fanboy could comprehend it. Ultimately is a BS promotional video that's meaningless.
This is the best demonstration I've seen of how modular Model Y assembly has become.
Stunning. Mainstream media will not recognize this is the highlight of the show. The irony of his comments about designing for automated production in the days leading up to possible UAW strike … wow. Thank you for the relentless coverage and appreciate the excellent presentation Han@caresoft
What the HELL? In the past I have spent more time and complexity installing a couple of speakers in a car and still wasn't as straight forward as assembling an entire Model Y.
I am a relatively amateur "mechanic" but know enough to change things like spark-plugs, filters and fanbelts. A month ago, I had to devote an entire day to fitting a new drive-belt to the power-steering unit, and needed to remove around 20 other parts before I could get to the belt.
@@brunosmith6925 And people complain that EV's are too complex and that ICE vehicles are much simpler. I always know they never did any kind of basic maintenance operation on a car ever in their lives.
EXCELLENT VIDEO. Finally some real innovation from a car manufacturer.... 5 years ago, tesla was the only one to offer advanced cruise control. Now you can get it in a honda accord..... GO TESLA!
Fascinating. Now i know i can disassemble and reassemble my own cars if necessary. 10 minutes. Try that with a ID4.
Take less time than that, just run over a bump and the parts will fall off.
The real question is why were legacy OEMs so stupid. How did their culture become so broken?
😂@@heathwirt8919
@@taylorc2542 The real real question is why so many clueless people are duped by a conman named Musk.
@@taylorc2542 bean counters who are smug and smarter than engineers lol:)
So impressive. Cost, quality, space all optimized. First principles thinking. Legacy OEM's are hesitant to use gigacastings because they have traditional stamping presses bought and paid for. But here we see advantages beyond the obvious.
Let the Legacy fools strike. It'll cost more to produce products that can't compete. That story sounds familiar.
"...they have traditional stamping presses bought and paid for..." Bought, yes... but probably not yet paid-for. Legacy automotive tends to fund everything with debt - another big problem that they may struggle to solve.
Legacy automaker, GM, had a huge casting the size of the entire fender on the Alpha platform (Camaro, ATS) back in 2016. Multiple parts consolidated and mega weight savings. Just because Tesla is doing something smart, does not mean legacy automakers are not also doing it.
@@MSportsEngineering but you know the size differences between a fender and the who back underbody of a car including two fenders. This is what tesla and the gigacasting machine producer in italy had to figure out because it wasn't posible before to do it well that big.
Legacy is moving towards this as fast as they can (source an engineer friend of mine at a legacy automaker).
This video should have over a million views…Tesla obviously has made paradigm shifts in technology, but this is a clear display of them doing so in manufacturing.
Wow…
He could assemby some lego bricks and you all would tell us how mindbowing it would be if tbey had the Tesla sign on it!
@@brunoheggli2888is this not impressive in the simplicity and efficiency of assembly? This reduces cost and reduces the chances of something being assembled incorrectly. It is the reason Tesla can make their cars as good for as cheap and fast as they do
@@SyntheticSpy This is nothing special,Toyota invented it!It even has a japanese name!
@@SyntheticSpy its called" poka yoke" Toyota and many others do this since decades!
@@SyntheticSpy What comes next?"Kaizen "is now also something new from Tesla?Why dont you tell us that Sushi is also a Tesla invention!
And wait theres more. Now the battery pack with seats on it comes and mounts from the bottom in one piece. 🤣
Coolest thing I've seen in a long time for car manufacturing. Amazing with both seats, lid serving as the floor, carpets and center console all inc.
It still only weighs 1,150# or so according to the munro tear down of a 4680 model Y.
First ev car ever in production using a U.S. built 4680 cell and a U.S. built structural pack plus front and rear single piece castings. 😎👍🏻
Thanks Han LY. Great demonstration!!!
That is impressive. Having worked on Mercedes cars, even small repairs require dozens of fasteners and hours of work. This is incredible.
People still wonder why VW is in massive financial problem, then I see this and I understand what's coming.
They really won't know what hit them. And think that the Model 3/Y are still basically the first generation of cars that were adapted to this philosophy.
Think about the next generation of EV's that will be also designed to be better and cheaper to assemble with all the practical experience they've gained from here.
This is even more amazing than it looks.
How you know?
True simplicity can be much harder to achieve than complexity. I see the same thing in the software world.
@@brunoheggli2888 TRY achieving a similar result with your own product. It's difficult and costly.
Lean manufacturing at its maximum expression. As an engineer, it's a pleasure to see.
Wow! We hear so much about Tesla's innovation in vehicle engineering and manufacturing, but to see it in this simple presentation really brings it home! Would be interesting to see the equivalent component assembly of a Chevy Blazer or something like that...I'll bet it's like night and day! Thanks John!
Ultium Battery platform is a total mess, they should scrap it and start over again. The amount of additional packaging layers is just absurd. Easily could remove 2 layers.
Why did 5 generations of GM engineers not understand This Is The Way? Why were they so broken?
They Understood , The Pentagon even told them 20 years ago in a goverment funded study ,there's a video that explains it. "Winning the Oil Endgame presented by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountian Institute .It is on TH-cam
Sandy Monroe explained this. No one speaks up so they don’t lose their jobs or get passed in being promoted! Don’t rock the boat!! Legacy automakers do changes slowly & once a year once upper management buys in on it where Tesla workers are constantly innovating & doing changes when needed! Engineering works together to resolve issues!
It's not the engineers. They would have to change the whole corporate structure, and then the whole corporate culture, before they could begin to try to do things the same way as Tesla.
@@davidmenasco5743 Good point David. Given the opportunity, any good engineer will strive towards improvement and efficiency. The tragedy with most of the legacy OEM's is that they have never (and never will) give their engineers the freedom and flexibility to affect changes quickly. When a company is run by accountants, business sense goes out the window.
It's more the unions than the accountants. Unions like 10 men to make the car where Tesla like none, robots don't pay union membership
I think the Detroit 3 just crapped in their pants.
So did Shawn Fain of the UAW.
@@mikedx2706sadly, neither management of Detroit 3 nor Fain are paying attention to facts - they are having a cat fight at the country club and thinking it is 1970.
I tried desperately to show engineers videos like this over 2 years ago, and there was total ignorance and lack of interest in learning what Tesla was doing to revolutionize how automobiles are designed. Tesla designs the vehicle to be manufactured, and with automated manufacture in mind. They relentlessly eliminate components or combine them to make assembly simpler and easier to automate. Their factory will be much more ergonomically friendly to the workers that they do employ. I just wish that the Big 3 would learn.....
If Tesla was making ICE vehicles, they would STILL be taking over this industry.
Good video. Nice example of being cost conscious ... in parts, weight, assembly, etc. Something all manufacturing needs.
Clearly wasn't designed by German car makers! It's too simple and no special factory tools were needed!
@@mikedx2706 hehehe
Wow. Great video. The charge port in the light is brilliant.
I am impressed. This is more informative that most Munro videos in a fraction of the time. Very concise and informative presentation.
Wow! Those components fit together so tightly, and easily. Whomever the supplier is (internal or external) keeping up with volume demands must be difficult.
Right. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!
Re: Supplier Accommodation. Actually maximizing parts commonalities across all Tesla models makes it easier & more predictable to optimize supplier production lines & even incorporate enhancements as those opportunities present themselves. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!
If I would not have been a Tesla shareholder for 11 years, this video would make me one! Great, thanks!
Fascinating, impressive, educational. Thank you Han Minh LY!
John Thank You, for finding and opening our eyes to greatness. this is a great presentation of thing to come. As in all industries, you see a better way and you do it. Case in point Ford with fill through gas cap, great move
Compare this to the first Sandy Munro Model 3 teardown. They’ve come a long way in the last 5 years!
John, Sandy Munro will love this video!
This video along with the video of Sandy hitting the giga castings with a sledge hammer are very complimentary.
IKEA to start selling teslas next month!
The most amaizing thing I want to see is how easy it is to remove these things when something needs to repaired. A modular servicable car!
Superb video! Munro Live shows a hint of this, but it's really helpful to truly understand it in motion. I'd love to see how a legacy car manufacturer compares!
Anyone who doubts Tesla's goal to reach 20m vehicles/year should see this video, and they're only starting. Every time legacy thinks it can catch up, Tesla moves 3 steps faster. Now, just imagine if 2-3 years from now, Tesla Bots (Optiumus) does 50% of the assembly. The consequences in terms of speed, scaling and costs would be such a game changer that the rest of the industry would be so far behind they might not even be able to see the dust behind Tesla's lead. The only companies that would be able to compete are Chinese and other low-cost-of-labor markets where paying for "human robots" is still financially viable.
All while maintaining the lowest build quality in the industry, another Tesla exclusive.
@@heathwirt8919Agreed. This is cheap junk
@@heathwirt8919
False narrative. Try again.
The UAW better start demanding job retraining for its members right now in its new contract with the Remaining Three.
@@ChitFromChinola It's not really false narrative right now. Tesla has some of the lowest build quality in the industry. Will they forever? Who knows, but rignt now it is less than stellar.
It only serves to prove how complacent other OEM’s are are. They had 100 years to figure that out and it took Tesla to do it.
Not bad for a start-up manufacture.
Poka yoka style…….parts only go in one way. Snap in parts, how quick and easy is that? Brilliant ! 👍🏻💯
As impressive as the vehicles are, the way they are designed and built is really the hidden gem.
Well done Tesla.
Amazing video john
Explained so simply
HOLY SHIITAKE MUSHROOM, this is AMAZING! I've never seen how EASY it is to assemble because it is DESIGNED FOR MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLY. 1.21 JIGGAWATTS of efficient explanation. Even Munro never broke it down this quick and simply. I can tell why you had to record this! Thank you!
Delete, Reduce, Simplify. In the last few years the smart medical products firm that I work for has started to adopt this method. It's actually beginning to work quite well. This was an excellent demonstration [well done Caresoft and Autoline] of how this method deletes parts, reduces costs and simplfies construction. The benefit is manyfold, but amongst the most important - quality is raised.
Every engineer at every automotive company should be forced to watch this with her eyes taped, wide open.
They've seen it well before this
Irony is that most engineers in the legacy OEM industry KNOW this already. They are prevented from influencing design by the comanies' bosses - who are usually non-technical accountants. Some of the biggest corporate failures in history have been a result of accountants running the business. If you work for a company that is run by accountants, then the risk of your job disappearing are very high.
@@brunosmith6925 great point.
Thank you for this video, Autoline...and shot with a cellphone, man, how we the auto industry have evolved.
Keep these videos from the show coming! I can't believe how much I am learning.
Brillant deign engineering for ease of assembly and subsequent repair.
🤗 THANKS JOHN ,HAN FOR SHOWING US THE FUTURE 🤩😎💚💚💚
Normally aluminum castings are too brittle to be used in this manner... got to give Tesla credit for remaking the mold, in more than one way....
Plus Thanks to the rep from Caresoft for demonstrating it.... his English was a little hard to understand, but it was good enough....
You got one thing right, castings are brittle.
@@heathwirt8919
You mean that castings are brittle like an engine block?
@@heathwirt8919 You should watch Sandy Munro take a sledgehammer to a casting in a video out today.
@@martingardens Sandy is a musk stooge and he could barely lift a sledge hammer.
@RayNLA; poor analogy.... but just for the fun of it, let's stick with that crappy analogy.... an aluminum casted engine block, needs to utilize 'steel' liners, to come close to the durability. of a 'steel' block ...
FWIW a bicycle frame would have been a more appropriate analogy... A steel bicycle frame can last forever If it is kept rust free, an aluminum bicycle bike frame usually only lasts for about 5 years or less before structural significant cracks start forming ....
Aluminum protects itself against oxidation and is lighter....Which explains why it's being used more and more... It's just not as durable, against fatigue....
Enjoy the Kool-Aid....
Damn, that's really clean.
This is simply breathtaking!
God damn I love the work the team does at Tesla.
They have taken a clean sheet approach to put function first and design out complexity, much like a lego 👍
Shocking, yet obvious and just brilliant at the same time. Everyone should watch this. Thanks John and Autoline
What he meant to say is that it's game over for legacy auto.
John McElroy bashes Tesla for a decade - Caresoft proves he was 100% incorect in under ten minutes flat.
John is one of the more respectable observers in the automotive industry, and while he was once very skeptial of Tesla (ofetn for good reasons), he paid attention to the rate of improvements and now acknowledges Tesla as the industry leader.
@@brunosmith6925 He missed the largest and most successful product launch (automotive or otherwise) in history. That says a lot about his knowledge of the industry.
Wow, amazing simplicity.
SHOULD BE MANDATORY VIEWING
All engineering students, engineering apprentices, actual engineers and most importantly finance managers and corporate board members of engineering related firms should be made to watch this.
When you listen to Sandy Munro 😊
Except he didn't come up with that niether did Tesla . Tesla did bring it to market .That way of building was proposed 20 years ago .
Great video. Thank you so much for sharing. Best part is no part.
Just like a lego set.
Fischer Technik. Lego has no metal parts.
Thank you John, excellent video and informative!
As John said Excellent!
That makes me even more impressed with Tesla. OMG is that efficiency. But why are their panel gaps so BIG
Perhaps you were looking at a 2012 Tesla or car that was salvaged and made from multiple cars. On my 2022 Tesla S and Y the gaps are equal to our Lexus (i.e. very good).
Tesla fanboys love big panel gaps and sagging door seals, all part of sloppy modular assembly. A tesla exclusive.
🤡@@heathwirt8919
@@heathwirt8919 The panel-gap FUD was addressed some years ago. A few months ago, Toyota tore down a Model-Y and apart from finding some of the highest precision-fitting in any car, the head of engineering at Toyota described the car as "an engineering masterpiece".
Additionally, Sandy Munro (who highlighted panel-gap issues on early Model-3's, recently measured gaps on latest model-3 and model-y cars and found the precision to be more accurate than most other legacy OEM's.
So... these are the facts. Looks like you need to do some proper research - or you can continue looking stupid... your choice.
@@tesla_tap yea people who think Tesla have big panel gaps are reading the nonsense from MSM . ALL advertisers want Tesla to slow down because ALL auto makers want Tesla to slow down , follow the money.
Excellent video, thank you so much for the breakdown.
Even better for economy EV's. Like to see the sled.
Or lawn tractors.
It's just awesome!!! This is how to reduce complexity!
I couldn’t help bul laugh! Simplicity is amazing
john keep up the good work. more caresoft please. can we get a detailed process of their CT SCANS of ev models?
I probably could put the car together in an hour with all the parts
Great Job!
Really crazy departure from legacy. It's no wonder that they have the margins they do. Once that robot comes in, that factory will be running 24/7. I hope the robot gets OT.
Wow, I was blown away by the simplicity. It makes me think I can start my own ev maker 🤣. Tesla engineers are brilliant.
Very informative 👍
Re: Supplier Accommodation. Actually maximizing parts commonalities across all Tesla models makes it easier & more predictable to optimize supplier production lines & even incorporate enhancements as those opportunities present themselves. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!
Very cool! So exiting to see what Tesla has done... and crazy that other automakers can't seem to imitate it!
Very nice. Please do more video like this about general assembly concept.
So nifty. No wonder it takes VW three times as long to build a car
Wow brilliant vdo. A lot of info delivered very fast. The design of the car is obviously very impressive
Wow, fascinating! Tesla is supreme! Mary "you led" Barra, are you watching?? 😂
Thank you Anh Han!
After watching this, I can not fathom why Tesla does not sell non electrical parts to all of us DIY.. In 5 years they have changed the manufacture to just a big giant LEGO kit! :)
Excellent! Shared it with my son... can't wait to hear his reaction. SoCalFreddy
And the genius of a true genius is in fact simplicity 😊
Oh man, I want to buy all the parts and put together my own car!
Compare with early Model S. Tesla has advance more in 10 years than the old 3 have in 100.
Very well done… and kudos to Tesla!
Love the "Hey Chat GPT " banner talking about things being made by humans, and in the video he talks about using robots and automation. 😂
Impressive thanks
Awesome video! My only worry is that with so many things just slotting in and fewer fastenings - in time, it will develop a lot of rattles and creaks!
Fascinating! Thanks for the insights!
Just wow!
Seriously, the Lego sets that my daughter assembled were more complicated than putting this Model Y together.
The Tesla competition has higher labor costs to put together vehicles that are factors more difficult to assemble…and must be negotiated with a Dealer to close the deal.
This is a gun fight where everyone except Tesla brought a knife…
The precision of Lego is an engineering industry legend. In many engineering departments, when the boss says "I want Lego-precision" he means supreme accuracy.
Next level
Simplicity is genius 😊
Thanks for the valuable content!
I was just blown away 👌
It's still funny and sad to me that so many people just don't get how Tesla is ahead in manufacturing. They think it's easy for companies to just catch up because they already make cars, but stuff like this shows how great it is when everything from software to manufacturing is done under one roof.
very good