Posted on 05/28/2024 1:06:33 PM PDT by Jonty30
High purchase prices are a major barrier to the wider adoption of electric vehicles. A significant portion of this cost comes from expensive batteries. However, in recent years, automakers have been employing an advanced manufacturing technique known as gigacasting. This method helps offset the high cost of batteries, simplifies production, and reduces the weight of EVs.
Nissan will follow Tesla, and several other carmakers like Toyota, Hyundai, and Ford, in adopting this technology. The brand aims to reduce the costs of EV parts by 10% and slash weight by 20%, Automotive News reported. Nissan's EVs using gigacasting are expected to enter the market around 2027, with new production techniques projected to lower overall expenses by 30%, saving some $1 billion in development costs for five future models.
First pioneered by Tesla, gigacasting is a process where large, single pieces of a vehicle's structure are made using giant casting machines. Instead of assembling many smaller parts, gigacasting creates large portions of the car, like the entire rear or front section, in one piece. This reduces the number of components, lowers production costs, and makes the vehicles lighter and easier to assemble.
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Hollywood as well.
Yes!
“No. It’s where Tesla takes a giant sheet of aluminum metal and press it into the shape of an automobile. Instead of all these little parts where it all has to be welded, it’s a unibody.
So if you know, if in a significant accident is the car more, less or no different in term of it being considered totaled if the gigacast is damaged?
Small dents, no. Large crunches, possibly.
But I’ve seen videos where they can fix dents.
This video might help.
https://youtu.be/CvAOkkuGpuI
sounds like you might have to replace the entire body ...
happy talk regarding EVs ... making the body from a single panel could be applied to ANY auto, EV or ICE, IF it’s a good idea ...
Plus, this does nothing to reduce the weight of THE battery, extend THE battery’s lifetime, OR extend the battery’s range ... SO, basically doesn’t do ANYTHING at all to improve the basic problems with EVs ...
they never could make continuously variable sheath pulleys work reliably on drill presses, so can’t imagine how awful they must work in automobiles ...
Sounds like I need to just buy two of them at twice the price.
We’ve maxed out the potential of lithium-ion batteries, without a new paradigm about them. So, we can’t do anything about the battery itself.
There is work on solid-state batteries may hold some promise of progress. However, the only thing that we can do, which is doable, is deal with lightening the car through new technologies. That is something we can do something about.
That's just negative thinking. It makes it cheaper to build with fewer assembly persons. It improves the bottom line for Nissan. Now, don't you just feel silly?
Hopefully, through competitive pressures, it will also lighten your wallet less.
Yeah, I’ll pass. The rapidly diminishing asset values of said EVs offset any thoughts of virtue signalling about Mudder Erf. Eventually junkyards may refuse to take them OR the disposal fee is almost as large as the purchase price. I look for some real kinks in ownership coming in these future lemons.
Mind you CATL is the world’s largest battery maker of all cells you know the ones in laptops,your smartphone used to type here, tablets, electric power tools and lawn equipment. Medical devices. It’s not just EVs none of modern electronics smart phones in particular could exist without lithium ion batteries. CATL just tripled the energy density and they are not some research queen tech. CATL brings things to market in a big way. The Chinese are kicking the world’s butt with energy technology of all forms especially nuclear power they have 150 reactors in the pipeline to be built, and they are full steam ahead on fast spectrum nuclear reactors. They also have a full reprocessing regime set up. They are decades ahead of the USA in fast spectrum nuclear reactors and reprocessing.
https://newatlas.com/energy/highest-density-lithium-battery/
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