Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...

Tesla, amid falling sales and increasing competition, has abandoned plans for an innovative one-piece gigacasting manufacturing process. Initially aiming to revolutionize manufacturing and reduce ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is close to implementing a new die-cast process that could significantly reduce costs and simplify vehicle ...

General Motors has quietly purchased a key gigacasting company that was being used by Tesla in its pioneering process of slashing manufacturing costs by casting large body parts for its vehicles. It ...

The Fraunhofer ILT and MacLean-Fogg have jointly produced a complex die casting tool inlay using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). The specially developed L-40 tool steel enables the additive ...

Volvo is spending $1.1 billion upgrading its Swedish auto plant for electric-car production. It's taking a page out of Tesla's playbook by introducing the process of megacasting. Volvo aims to be an ...

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Tesla TSLA-Q has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pioneering manufacturing process, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in another sign that the ...