Musk Tweet of GigaCasting (MegaCasting?)

As this is outside, I assume it is at the Fremont plant:

This looks like a rear structure.

The Shanghai/Berlin/Austin plants were built to house the Idra Giga Presses internally. Also, Tesla is planning larger castings for at least Austin with perhaps an entire CyberTruck structure.

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Tesla is notorious for poor body panel alignment (inconsistent gaps, etc.). The castings are supposed to reduce stack-up tolerances for the body panel mounting points.

Apparently, the Fremont Model Y front chassis was not a single casting. The Austin production should have improved, but not yet:

Munro body teardowns of Fremont Model 3 v. Fremont Model Y v. Austin Model Y:

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