Elon Musk says ‘we dug our own grave’ with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges::Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the Cybertruck’s unique design means the company faces immense challenges in scaling production.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If he said <10 mils, I’d might have bought the explanation that Elon actually meant millimetres. Micron is a very specific metric-based unit which to Elon might have been trying to use like a buzzword.

    The moral of the story is don’t say stupid engineering stuff if you don’t want engineers to laugh at you.

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      1 year ago

      And 10 microns at what temperature? Because on something the size of a car, made of mixed materials, thermal expansion of less than a degree is going to blow that figure.

      They couldn’t apply paint to a tolerance of 10microns.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah and that wouldn’t be too bad either… still expensive but not completely unrealistic for ALL parts of a car.

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          1 year ago

          Kinda unreasonable for the number of cast parts most cars use, but for machined surfaces it shouldn’t be too bad.