Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
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Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#2This was the most compelling explanation of the visuals. They are saying that Telsa put function radically over form to reduce manufacturing complexity and efficiency. This is a purely utilitarian approach that is not self-evident.
I hope Telsa will put together a better presentation to explain this to the public. This is the sort of technical progress you'd like to see in other domains.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#3Basically: the stainless steel, hard edged design has quite a few cost-savings for manufacturing but may effect aerodynamics, weight, and durability (large flat sections of metal are more likely to dent than curved).
It will be interesting to see how the pros/cons play out for Tesla with the cybertruck!
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#4This was the most compelling explanation of the visuals. They are saying that Telsa put function radically over form to reduce manufacturing complexity and efficiency. This is a purely utilitarian approach that is not self-evident. I hope Telsa will put together a better presentation to explain this to the public. This is the sort of technical progress you'd like to see in other domains.
These are mostly old manufacturing ideas which affect crash safety; repairability, an street legality.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#5This is the truck Howard Roark would build. Function over form for good reason and to hell with the critics. I for one absolutely love it.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#6Basically: the stainless steel, hard edged design has quite a few cost-savings for manufacturing but may effect aerodynamics, weight, and durability (large flat sections of metal are more likely to dent than curved). It will be interesting to see how the pros/cons play out for Tesla with the cybertruck!
The whole stainless steel thing is fascinating to me. The other really famous car made of stainless is of course the Delorean DMC-12.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#7This is the truck Howard Roark would build. Function over form for good reason and to hell with the critics. I for one absolutely love it.
How is it function over form? They use electric motors on the door handles, bed cover, and ramp. They made the bed sides super high and hard to access the bed. It has no floor tie-downs. They gave it a glass roof where you'd lean stuff from the bed!
This is absolutely form over function, they just picked a form which is controversial.
PS - I actually like the Cybertruck. But I'm self aware to know it is due to all the impractical toys that will ultimately be a maintenance hazard. It is cool but impractical.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#8This is the truck Howard Roark would build. Function over form for good reason and to hell with the critics. I for one absolutely love it.
>Ditch the heavy, traditional, body-on-frame, and rethink the structure as weight-efficient trussed bridge in its simplest load-spreading configuration: a triangle set on its hypotenuse. One side is the Cybertruck's wedgy cab, the other, its tapered, sail-sided bed, their meeting point at the truck's tall peak resulting in a huge cross-sectional area for maximum stiffness.
So one little mishap with a heavy object in the vicinity of the bed rails and the truck's structural integrity may be compromised. All the pros listed to the design seem valid but this seems like a very high stakes bet on exactly the functions this truck does and doesn't need to perform.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#9This was the most compelling explanation of the visuals. They are saying that Telsa put function radically over form to reduce manufacturing complexity and efficiency. This is a purely utilitarian approach that is not self-evident. I hope Telsa will put together a better presentation to explain this to the public. This is the sort of technical progress you'd like to see in other domains.
unconvinced. long, precise, sharp angles are expensive to stamp on thick steel plates.
so I've checked around the pictures, apparently the marketing material has seams along the angle, but the car in the presentation has angled plates.
something doesn't add up https://imgur.com/a/HO1HnGC
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
#10This was the most compelling explanation of the visuals. They are saying that Telsa put function radically over form to reduce manufacturing complexity and efficiency. This is a purely utilitarian approach that is not self-evident. I hope Telsa will put together a better presentation to explain this to the public. This is the sort of technical progress you'd like to see in other domains.
unconvinced. long, precise, sharp angles are expensive to stamp on thick steel plates. so I've checked around the pictures, apparently the marketing material has seams along the angle, but the car in the presentation has angled plates. something doesn't add up https://imgur.com/a/HO1HnGC
I figured they would be using a brake[0] for the bends.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_(sheet_metal_bending)