Tesla Motors - Elon Musk - Documentary 2020

This man has a vision of creating the best electric cars ever seen and consigning gasoline to history. This is something truly revolutionary. He wants to build his unprecedented Tesla car in a new futuristic factory and trigger a revolution in electric transportation. It's been a long time since something like that happened in the car business, but it's here. It is a dream that many have had but none have realized. Aluminum body. 19-inch alloys and a price of 50,000 at first glance. This car is the latest in a long line of high-end sedans, but that's where the similarities end.

The Model S is a totally different type of car. Tesla believes it can lead a revolution and change the face of

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port forever. It's the first. premium mass-produced sedan powered exclusively by electricity designed for speed and range and not a drop of gasoline our goal is to create an electric car that is the best car in the world and prove that that is what an electric car can be. Tesla's goal is to kill off the combustion engine and demonstrate that the electric car has finally come of age. Driving a gas car will feel like it was yesterday Driving this car is driving the future This is Elon Musk Co-founder and CEO of Tesla Elon is an inventor and a maverick entrepreneur One of America's youngest billionaires I like to explore I like technology I like to create things that have never been seen before or even imagined before it is a true Silicon Valley success story in the mid 90s

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created a small Internet company in 2002 he sold PayPal for one and a half billion dollars and then founded the private rocket company spacex, all part of

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's life mission when he was in college, he tried to think about what are the areas that would most affect the future of humanity, so the three things were the internet making the life was multiplanetary and the third was sustainable energy, so that's what really brings it together. together my companies is that kind of thinking from 20 years ago

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is a car company that only makes fully electric vehicles without hybrids or alternative fuels Absolutely no tailpipe The company estimates its electric cars produce 50% less CO2 even if much of the electricity comes from a coal-fired plant.

Its technology Elon and co-founder JB Straubel believe we need to solve our children's problems. our grandchildren oil is a finite resource and eventually we have to find alternatives when you get that oil out of the ground and burn it it is extremely dangerous we should not play Russian roulette with the atmosphere we only have one the founders of tesla have a vision of a world Without gasoline cars, they are convinced that electric cars are not just that they are cleaner but better. Now they want to prove it to the world. They believe that their cars can trigger a revolution in transportation and bring the electric motor to the masses.

What we are doing here in Tesla can have an amazing impact and revolutionize the automotive industry and make every car on the road electric that is our ultimate goal the model s is to lead its revolution it should be an electric car unlike any other a family sedan that can go from zero to 100 in less than six seconds and more on a single charge than any other electric production car designed to match the main gasoline competitors with the model s, we are taking things to the next level, it is a full size sedan, so which competes in the premium segment alongside, say, a BMW or an Aston Martin, but the car is just the Starting with such a revolutionary vehicle demands a revolutionary factory.

Tesla needs to create an unprecedented state-of-the-art facility from scratch. Elon brings in Gilbert as head of manufacturing. Jill Bear is an expert at one of Toyota's award-winning plants in Canada. The description of her. My job for me was very simple, you know you have to create the best factory in the world with the best people in the world and make the best premium sedan and I said, well, where is the factory? You have to find one where it is. the team what you have to do one the company bought a former gm and toyota site in fremont california at the urging of silicon valley the abandoned facility is a traditional auto factory darkness little natural light bare concrete floors when the tesla engines come in it's the Birth of a mega factory like no other It's a totally new approach to automobile manufacturing The walls and floors are painted white The machinery is eye-catching Skylights and red windows flood the factory with sunlight If you make it spotless and clean that marks the tone of the vehicle that I want that same sense of quality and precision in the car as part of the spirit of the entire company bicycles are provided so that workers can move around the factory.

I think it's important to have an environment where people are eager to come to work, so it's worth it. Putting a little effort into making the factory beautiful in true Silicon Valley style, they fill the space with the latest technology, creating an automated production line capable of building tens of thousands of cars, super-efficient multitasking robots, self-driving smart cards and computerized production schedules the factory is designed to be on par with the best in the world we love engineering we love beautiful machines we love new technologies we love innovating with high technology and also in manufacturing we love doing that without training these sophisticated robots are useless they all need to be taught before they can perform tasks automatically each robot is programmed by hand the tesla team has meticulously trained 130 sophisticated robots for a year and a half one of the last robots yet to be programmed is a multipoint welding that will be they used to join cars under the body these are pretty busy robots so we have to make sure our attack time is good the work of a robot is only as good as the man who trains it brad johnson is a welder with over 25 years of experience at the highest level, doing this today will have the teachings nice and smooth and then we can start running 100 and fully automatic, that sounds, the good thing that the robot operates on is treated like a grid three-dimensional, the head can be manually guided to any point using a teaching pendant, there is our starting point and our welding position brad guides the robot millimeter by millimeter and uploads the coordinates, the robot determines the most efficient route and executes the program, it seems that the teaching is at the right point and we have very good quality welding. right here, so we should be able to run fully automatic with this well when full production begins.

The robot will exactly replicate Brad's work 100 times a day since its creation in 2003. Tesla Motors has been pursuing its revolution in electric cars with one step at a time. Two-Step Strategy in an Unconventional Business Move Elon decreed that Tesla should invest in his reputation first and worry about profits second. Stage one: build a small number of high-value cars that demonstrate that electric power can be desirable. Tesla's master plan is very simple. We begin. They set out to create an expensive, low-volume car to help break the EV mold. They got to work on their first car based on the British-built Lotus Elise.

Five years later, they launched the Tesla Roadster faster than an Aston Martin. vantage the electric sports car amazes the motor world The first complete step in Tesla's strategy what we showed was that an electric car can be attractive, it can be fast and it can have a long range and if a car like that is produced, people I would buy it, but there is a two-seat sports car for 100,000, it is a second luxury vehicle for most of its owners, it is time for the second fundamental stage of the master plan, a car that costs half as much and sells in much larger quantities older, a very important step in Tesla's strategy is actually going to prove that a conventional electric car can be better than a gasoline car the model s is the second step in elon

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's vision of an electric revolution a premium sedan for mass market designed and built from the ground up by tesla at the los angeles studio they are working to create that car the model s is really the foundation of tesla it is the first true designed designed built product manufactured by tesla and it is really the beginning of our mission Franz von Holzhausen is the chief designer.

He believes that Tesla's design needs to have a conventional appeal, it's very easy to wipe the slate clean and go quite crazy with it. We had to start with something that people could relate to if they knew or cared that it was an electric vehicle, they would be attracted to it, we stretched the sedan and made it a little more modern, but it's still a sedan, it still has this sign something traditional and so it is easy to love it because of that association, although uniform in appearance, the model s is a unique car, it was conceived as electric, even the shape is designed to maximize the range of the battery, the body and the waist here They are all lean so there is no excess fat or body mass on this car and that is another one of those elements that just translates to great efficiency, this car is one of the most aerodynamic sedans out there.

In the electric car market, conserving battery power is so important that the design has gone to great lengths to reduce drag - even the door handles are aerodynamic and flush with the body - but it's the interior that It is more influenced by the electric powertrain. It's incredibly small, you get the same performance from an engine the size of, you know, a watermelon that fits between the rear wheels and everything else on top of it, that's what I call the opportunity space. The design team started with the engine and battery discharged and worked upwards with the engine next to the wheels.

There is no need for a driveshaft so there is no lift under the center rear seat. There is no fuel tank or transmission. the s model has flora clearance what you'll see is a It's a huge amount of space, in fact it's so big that we decided we could actually fit seven people and we achieved that by putting two rear facing child seats here in the back and you can see where they fit in here and their legs go down. In there, this is what we call the frunk and it's actually the trunk at the front of the car and you could say that you can put a lot of stuff in here even when the back of the car is fully loaded with people and kids and stuff. and who doesn't need one of these tesla touts these unique features at every opportunity as a new brand they are trying to make an impact in a market full of established heavy hitters just by looking at the united states of the other three car companies the youngest has 90 years, so it's clear that this is not an industry that has supported newcomers.

The 2012 Geneva Motor Show, another stage of the company's relentless promotional campaign. We're done selling roadsters in North America, so this is our product. It's our product. Tesla product. and therefore we need to get it out to start selling the industry experts are judging Tesla by the model S, it is considered decisive, maybe Tesla has a bright future. I think the S model is very decisive to see if there will be a great future. or if there will be no future, the company has taken the risk of collecting prepaid orders for the car, they have racked up almost 10,000 pre-sales, the financial push also creates real pressure, in fact some harass me quite a bit. people who make reservations and that, and you know, there are many expectations, very high expectations that we will have to meet and exceed, actually some prepaid customers have been waiting up to three years for their car in exchange for what they were promised. a delivery deadline I feel an incredibly strong obligation to those who have put their faith in Tesla and made deposits.

I will do anything to make sure your faith is not lost. The delivery deadline for the first cars is now just two months away. but the new factory has not yet built a production car if customers want to receive their models on time, the facilities urgently need to start manufacturing the speed at which we have to work here is extremely important to the company's bottom line. a type of timing that is really challenging in many different aspects, Tesla needs to build 20,000 cars a year, but before mass production can begin, Jill Bear and her team must prove that the factory is ready, the company trusts them to do it well.

We have to make sure thatthe car of the car, the quality is there, everything is perfect on the road, so we are really preparing to ramp up production in the coming weeks. The factory will test manufacturing a limited number of models if the line does not work with these cars the company will be forced to miss its deadline Tesla's electric revolution would end before it began A very, very important moment is the birth of the model s in our Tesla factory and it is where you know the rubber will find its way, so to speak, the process begins with stamping to increase battery life, the company has decided to build 97 percent of the models with aluminum Lightweight, it is an extremely rare feature on a mass production car due to the cost each model starts with. one of these, the roll is loaded into the mechanical cutting machine, once cut, the panels are passed to the stamping press.

We need to translate flat pieces of aluminum into 3D shapes and how to do it with aluminum stamping at the level of quality we expect. really very difficult to meet the challenge they bought the largest stamping press available in North America it is one of the first pieces of equipment they install over three stories high it has to be transported from Detroit on seventy trains and then the completely rebuilt stamp pressure allows them to press the complex body shapes needed for models. It can be assembled with different heads known as dies that mold the panels into a wide variety of shapes.

Robotic arms feed the complete seals. Each stage forces a more detailed 3D shape that produces stacks of floor plates. These lightweight aluminum parts improve the Model S's power-to-weight ratio, helping to increase performance and range, the two things the co-founder and chief technical officer obsess over. JB Straubel. Any ideas on how we can improve performance and range were the two big issues that needed to be improved and that's where we put most of our focus on technology and powertrain. Second floor of the powertrain manufacturer. This is where they build the heart of the models. The motors and battery packs.

Tesla knows that the electric powertrain will define its cars, so they push. To advance technology, this is an extremely exciting field where inventions continue to happen even faster than in previous years. Tesla's solution to improving battery life seems surprisingly simple. They use thousands of small lithium-ion cells similar to laptop batteries, thanks to these regulars. batteries, the company says that the model S has achieved a maximum range of 480 kilometers. Once you have between 250 and 300 miles of range, you know you are in a different mode of use, you are in a range equivalent to most gasoline cars. It can be charged 100 kilometers every hour from a normal outlet.

Ultimately, Tesla hopes to install superchargers along major highways that can charge the car to capacity in 45 minutes. You can charge the car every night, but it is not necessary. In fact, charge it once a week. The high-performance battery pack is made up of more than 7,000 small cells. They are organized in a flat layer with specific groupings of positive and negative. The final design is the key to the power and range of the package and Tesla absolutely considers this. Top Secret The motor unit is also developed in-house It is essentially an AC induction motor A concept invented by the 19th century scientist and namesake of Tesla motors Nikola Tesla harnessed an electromagnetic field to spin a basic motor Modern Teslas have developed their motor with a high conductive copper cylinder When the electromagnetic shell is supplied with current, the copper cylinder inside begins to rotate.

It is almost three times more efficient than a combustion engine. In fact, it only has three moving parts. It connects directly to the rear wheels and does not require a transmission. These are the three moving parts of the powertrain of the entire model. One of the interesting things about this very simple gearbox is that when we want to reverse the car and go backwards, all we have to do is turn the engine in the other. steering and the car goes backwards we don't need a clutch we don't need a separate gear to go backwards the entire power unit is less than a meter long smaller than a golf bag but propels the model like a family size sedan into the class of cars high performance, in fact, this powertrain creates a totally different driving experience.

The program's director, Jerome Guillén, is constantly working to perfect it, since with the light switch, electrical energy can be applied completely instantly. The first thing that will surprise people is how much torque you get so quickly. response instantaneous response you can't really play with the accelerator too much because if you press it the car will go even from a standstill you have a very quick take off because basically the torque is instantaneous so if I stop here and then take off you will. See we have acceleration from the start, at any speed you have the same torque available so it is very easy to overtake a car or get out of danger if necessary, unlike gasoline cars that have to change gears , the model s can accelerate.

The top speed is completely uninterrupted when you switch to the electric system because you can regulate the torque that goes into a vehicle very smoothly and instantly. We don't need any transmission. This is a single speed drivetrain. The model's battery pack floor means most of the weight is. close to the road making it more stable in corners and improving handling we have a very low center of gravity somewhat similar to a Ferrari but the real evolution in the way we drive is due to one of the central innovations in regenerative electric cars. Braking, although the Model S has traditional brakes, it is not necessary to use them.

Regenerative braking can be activated by simply releasing the accelerator. When you want to brake, just take your foot off the pedal like I'm doing now and the car. It breaks on its own, so there is no need to use mechanical brakes when active, the regeneration system magnetically resists engine rotation, decelerates the car and collects electrical current. The recovered energy recharges the battery and extends the car's range when it hits the ground again. Electric power returns Tesla calls it one pedal driving, it's a little different approach to driving, but once you realize that if you take your foot off the cannon, the car slows down and it's like, wow, This is great, I can drive using just one pedal.

The factory The delivery deadline is quickly approaching The model's test production cycle arrives at the main assembly area The car rests around a partially steel underside to make it Engineers weld struts and castings into a structure The robot brad's newly trained welding machine is about to be tested in full automation the robots have been trained with prototype parts now with final components successfully coming out of the stamping its truly automated production under observation it's a tense time for the team the robots work in a Tightly coordinated chain The second phase reaches a problem that closes the entire process finished with the deadline approaching Elon Musk is determined to keep the customers waiting for Tesla happy. has organized a test drive event of the model for people who make deposits yes, many have paid in advance years ago and it is their first time within a manageable model Client and board member, Steve Jefferson, captures his experience on your mobile phone.

It is a surreal scene. He's way cooler than I can imagine. You really did this. Yes that is good. The first trip should be documented here. The event seems a success. Now the company must do it. Make sure customers get their models as promised, we're just weeks away from starting. Welding had a problem in automation. One of the robotic clamps is misaligned by millimeters. It's a small difference, but enough to disrupt the process with the way robots work and how we do. They have such a tight tolerance of one millimeter to stay on, sometimes new parts don't fit roughly or the clamp doesn't close all the way, a major delay will disrupt the entire production schedule and threaten the deadline, they adjust the settings and set the the robots in motion again this time it is activated without problems to relieve the team the process can be approved for mass production the tour through the automated line reaches the outside of the model the body of the model is made up of 14 different sections to accelerate the flow of work Tesla builds each section into separate subassemblies, door subassembly, the inner frame joins the outer panel when the robot's grippers come together, shoot a rivet and attach the aluminum sheets to the subassembly on the right side of the body, one of the more advanced.

The aspects of Tesla robots is that each arm can perform a variety of different tasks. We have to use the full range of technology to join aluminum, between stamping, welding, riveting and joining, and all of these things using robots that perform multiple tasks. This flexibility is essential. For a compact and efficient workflow, a robot can spot weld using a collet tool and then automatically detach the collet and grab a clamping tool. The same arm that held the panels together can now move it to the next station. It's smart but complicated and needs constant refinement. when you draw something yourself, you take your pencil, you take your knife with the same right hand and then you change the tools to say the same thing here, once assembled, the sections are put together in the body assembly, here they are riveted around the bottom welded to form the basic body of the car, all sections are aligned along the central structure line, gradually the automated line builds the side sections ready to house the doors.

A test batch of three cars is complete. The body assembly has proven that it can operate successfully in full automation. It is a vital milestone in the countdown to fully assembled mass production The aluminum body is now known as body in white It is ready for some color The body in white is loaded onto an elevated train that takes it to the painting area in this Huge painting facility. The center is in a completely separate building. The Fremont site covers nearly 95 football fields. It's so big that the model's production line only takes up 20. The extra space is the cornerstone of Tesla's grand strategy for an electric revolution.

The Tesla factory is huge. Approximately five million square feet on two levels right now we're only using a small fraction of the space, but the majority of it, as you can see behind me, is what we call the dark side, it's kind of dark and not used yet at all. Even though we have a There are many plans for the future on how to fully utilize this entire building. These extensions are an integral part of the company's stage-by-stage construction plan. They want to fill the space with the production line for an additional range of Tesla vehicles.

A very high volume economy. model with price, stage 3 car in future we intend to expand our range of vehicles maybe smaller size and also more affordable for the market and this factory is ideal and we are going to make this a super mega factory Fremont's long-term goal of producing millions of low-cost Stage 3 electric cars is the final step in Elon Musk's Tesla master plan to achieve widespread adoption of electric cars. We have our third generation vehicle, which would be a low-price, high-volume vehicle, and that's really what's going to fill the rest of this huge factory? I'd love to bring this to half a million vehicles a year as soon as we can.

The future of Elon's strategy depends first on the success of the models in production. Delivery time is running out. The aluminum body arrives on the elevated train from the body center paint center. This is where they make the car look like a premium sedan. It is a state-of-the-art process. There is a lot of technology involved. car tesla but the first thing they will tell you is what color tesla car they bought that's how important the paint is first a roller coaster of detergent treatment baths to clean the surface and then electro coating the electro coat helps attract the paint to the aluminum the car primed is ready to color this vehicle will be sprayed with its signature tint what tesla calls signature red is a color we developed that is different from anyone else's red it has been developed with glass flakes to get the specific type of shine we wantentering that painting is a perfectly choreographed masterpiece of automation even the painting robots multitask using a handle to open and close the doors once they pass through the painted body they head to the ovens to be baked and with double glass a team specialist spends hours evaluating the finish before handing over the car, Elon made it very, very clear to us what his expectations are for the paint job, he wants our paint to look like glass, to look like a piano finish, that's the challenge they've given us and that's what we're going to do the model s spends more than a day and a half in painting and that attention to detail carries over to the overall assembly first the panoramic glass roof of the model s the installation robot takes a photo of the part top of the car that uses Digital Image to measure the exact orientation and attach the glass to the side of the interior.

Wiring and seats are installed. Streamlined door handles are installed to get the delicate installation right. A wireless system adjusts the torque for each bolt. The state-of-the-art dashboard is lowered into the interior of the car. It's proof that the car is a product of the tech-savvy American West Coast, the Model S carries a touchscreen tablet inspired by Tesla's neighbors in Silicon Valley, Tesla is very much a Silicon Valley company which has a Silicon Valley operating system that is similar to Google or Facebook. o Apple come together with a huge amount of great automotive expertise, it's about bringing the things that we're used to on our phones, our computers and the interaction we have with them into the car, the car has a 3G mobile Internet connection, the driver You can download software updates and customize the screen, the cart is always connected to the Internet so we can understand your schedule and we can know that you are going to work at 8 am on Monday and the car can warm up for that experience all day long .

The command center is housed in the 17 inch tablet, the interior is practically bottomless, it does some really amazing things, not only does it make the rest of the interior super clean and really tidy, it allows you to have incredible control of the car and it's just you know, pressing a button like magic in the factory, the mass production start date is now just two weeks away, the first batch of test vehicles reaches the vital final stages, the Powertrain and body are joined together in gasoline cars, powertrain installation is a long process with electricity this can happen in just two steps step one the engine unit complete with suspension and brakes is bolted to the rear wheels there is no axle of transmission or transmission to hold in a single movement is prepared for final assembly the work is mainly manual like robots the performance of the line workers is being monitored 509 guys with each vehicle they are accelerating to full production cycle time or turn time each station here in the factory has to achieve a certain operation in that technological time in order to achieve it our specific client here, the goal is four minutes and 40 seconds throughout the construction, every time you hear me in the background say we're in two minutes, we're in five minutes, so you can know exactly where you are when we arrive.

You're shooting and get to step 2 in four minutes and 42 seconds. Installing the battery pack The PAX steel case acts as the car's chassis bolted into place giving the model its rigidity a step up from the first complete cars. They arrive at the final inspection at Elon's insistence. The inspection is carried out on a bamboo platform. He believes that you can only judge the condition of a car by beauty if it is framed by a beautiful environment. The last check is the test drive in Tesla. track is very different because electric cars do not produce exhaust gases you can drive indoors our people have done so well putting this car together you can see the remarkable quality of the paint and the entire vehicle, the body fits and everything.

I am very proud today. This is the first Model S to go through production testing and its quality proves that the new mega factory is ready for mass production. It's a big moment for the company, just seeing this car lapping on the test track here really demonstrates the fact that the Tesla factory is ready to go. I only had to make twenty thousand dollars more a year with this guy and it's kind of, you know, a done deal. Do you have to know how to do it? The factory can now move towards the delivery deadline, allowing Tesla to pursue its strategy for a revolution in electric cars.

Can you imagine if all the cars in the world could have zero emissions and zero noise and we could do it? in a perfectly clean environment that would be so cool this is Tesla's vision of an all electric future no fumes no heat no noise no dirt no expensive gas just clean quiet streets its really impressive to see what we are really like day by day and person by person changing people's minds about what electric vehicles are versus what we've all grown up with and take for granted if we can do it through a product that's amazing ten years from now tesla will change the perception of what electric vehicles can be. conventional cars and it'll become clear that electric cars are a truly ancient future, Tesla's mega factory may have made its place in history.