It’s a terrible idea on many levels. Large castings are very difficult, especially for odd shaped parts of varying thickness as you have to have the temperatures, feeds, breathers, etc. dialed in. IF you get your processes down finally, you have a single part that likely cannot be reworked if it doesn’t pass QA (this…

My question is this: Assuming Tesla is even still around in 2-3 years, how the hell are they going to recruit new talent? No one is going to want to go work for them. 

So they aren’t giving up on gigacasting, they just aren’t using it for as large a section of the car.

Saw a Lyric in the wild yesterday, was decidedly underwhelmed.  In particular the paint just looked bad.

Commenting and engaging the site isn’t exactly ignoring.

Talent pipelines are critical for a companies long term success.

Tesla is going full “Burn the talent” pipeline. They recently reneged on 3200 internships, some of them un-paid(?)!

If you don’t like it here then fuck off. Nobody’s making you click on content you don’t like.

And here I am still waiting for Elon release AutoPilot Full-Self-Driving level 5, I mean he keep talking about robotaxis so it should be near, right ? right ??

For over a year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has touted Tesla’s “significant bench depth” of 16 executives meant to quell concerns that the automakers was some sort of one-man show with Musk.

And yet, here you are.

They are scraping the plan to use a single cast for the platform and staying with the current 3 cast approach.

I’m not sure if news of Tesla overpromising and under delivering is more predictable news, or Ford issuing a recall.

They are at the point where they have read the writing on the wall they are about to crash into, and are just making the most of the ride as they make as much cash out of the wreck as they can. Why rock the boat and risk getting fired, when they can make more money just by doing nothing and enjoying the ride down.

Only time will tell where Tesla ends up.

You can’t roll coal in a Tesla though.

Hey, for the next call, can you do a side-by-side commentary with a regular person and a Tesla Stan? That would be entertaining.

Tesla is fundamentally an AI company — not a carmaker.

The old pitch of owner-run robotaxis is back. The fleet will be managed by Tesla, but owners will be able to “rent out” their car, with controls over who gets to access it.

If this is the build quality we can expect of a $80-100k vehicle, can you imagine what it would have looked like on the (maybe) cancelled $25k car?