Tesla NEXT GEN EV Manufacturing SECRETS revealed | $25K Tesla

This video includes a paid sponsorship from span, but more on that later, while Tesla didn't unveil its new

next

-generation compact Tesla at its recent Investor Day event, it did provide several interesting details that

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a mind-blowing new way in which this vehicle and others In addition,

next

-generation Teslas will be manufactured. Tesla hinted at what appears to be a next-generation Tesla pickup truck coming in the future and also announced the location of a new factory that will be dedicated to building the next-generation vehicles, so let's dive into all of this exciting stuff. Details that Tesla

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I especially want to thank everyone who supports me on Patreon. Your support makes a big difference and really helps make these videos possible. to efficiency in

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electric vehicles, Tesla's only real competition is themselves. In fact, Toyota engineers reportedly recently conducted a teardown of a Model Y and one of the Toyota executives who analyzed the model had this to say: Stripping the skin off the model and it was really a job. of art, it is incredible, this is high praise coming from a company like Toyota, which is renowned for its

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expertise. If Toyota is impressed with the model's engineering, as they should be, just wait until these engineers get their hands on one of Tesla's next-generation EVS.

That being said, let's talk about Tesla's next-generation vehicles and their manufacturing improvements with details they shared at their recent Investor Day. First of all, it became very clear that when Tesla talks about this next generation of manufacturing, this will apply to more than one vehicle. Tesla actually put up a slide indicating that not only will they be making a compact vehicle at very high volumes, but they also have what appears to be some sort of pickup truck that they plan to release. Also going forward it seems obvious that the manufacturing improvements we are going to talk about here will apply to these new vehicles as well as any other future vehicles and will eventually also extend to existing Tesla vehicles in the near term.

I hope the compact Tesla comes out and then maybe a little later the pickup truck and when it comes to where we will build this new compact Tesla that we expect at the beginning of the Q segment, Elon Musk made an official announcement that the next Tesla factory will be built in Mexico, near Monterey. That said, I'd like to delve into some of the really interesting parts and manufacturing improvements that Tesla revealed to its investor on Thursday, but before I do I want to introduce you to the sponsor. from today's video thanks to span for sponsoring this video, span's smart electrical panel eliminates the need for a separately wired critical load panel.

Using the iOS or Android app, you can easily move the circuits to one of three categories, such as the must-have category that is provided priority during a backup, the nice-to-have category that will power until your battery system reaches a charge 50 and the non-essential category that is turned off during outages, allowing you to use power only where it is needed most and extend battery backup time. to do that with your existing system to learn more and get a quote for your particular situation visit span.io or click the link in the video description and when you fill out that form you will get a quote make sure you put watt cleaner in the comments section so you know I sent you one of Tesla's key competitive advantages over the years has been its ability to continually improve all of its processes and, for that matter, its vehicles as well, and the best thing is that if you are a current competitor, say Toyota, and you tear down the model Y and try to take some of those learnings and incorporate them into your production processes so when, as a competitor, you maybe implement some of the things that you learned from the manufacturing processes of Tesla.

By the time you implement this in your company, Tesla will already be way ahead of where it was, so if all the competitors try to compare Tesla to where they are today, they will always be behind; However, with Tesla's next-generation vehicles, Tesla is taking this to a whole new level and the competition will be left even more in the dust on Tesla investors' day, they showed that their new factory will have a reduction of more than 40 percent in manufacturing footprint y compared to model 3 and model y. The goal for their next generation vehicle is to have a 50% reduction in cost.

Note that from what I can tell, this 50% reduction from the Model 3y platform to their next generation vehicle is apparently the original design of these vehicles before they move. to the underbody castings and structural battery pack, now in regards to the manufacturing processes and how Tesla will achieve this 50% reduction in costs, here is a clip from Lars Moravi, vice president of vehicle engineering at Tesla, discussing Tesla's old way of making cars at the Investor Day event. you take all these stamped panels, you put them together, then you put them on a frame station, you build a body that looks like a car, you put the doors on and then you paint them, once you get the color you take the doors off and then you start to Putting the interior inside the car, it enters through the openings that already exist.

I would like it to go in like this, but actually there are people getting in and out of the car, there are awkward movements, you know, then we lift the car. we put things under it, we take it down, then we put the seats in the car and finally we close everything with glass and we bring those doors that went on a trip and we put them back in the car most of the time. We're doing this with a big giant car and moving it around and we're not really doing anything to it at all. From that, Lars mentioned that his new manufacturing methods, actually, this started with the Model Y and the underbody castings and the structural battery pack because this design eliminated hundreds of parts and simplified the design of the vehicle, But as impressive as this change was, next-generation vehicles will take this to a whole new level and involve a more modular approach to manufacturing that will lead to a 44 improvement in operator density and a 30 improvement in efficiency. from space-time here is Lars talking about his new processes that will be implemented with his next generation vehicles that will take his manufacturing efficiency to a whole new level in the end which will probably look like this, where we balance the parallel and series Manufacture in a way where we only do the things that are necessary with a much shorter finish line that blocks much less of the rest of the factory so that we can optimize the flow of materials using best practices and what that means, it will look like this.

Here we build all the sides of the cars independently, we only paint what we need and then we assemble the car parts once and only once place them where they need to go. The interior is clamped by bottom-up ATT or top-down strategy so there is more access for those robots and people, we are not moving heavy objects and doing nothing, and that means we are doing more work on the car most of the time and then when we take it all. These tested some assemblies and we finally assembled the car only once, attaching the sides with all its parts to a front and rear part that was already assembled, taking the floor with the seats and finally encasing it with the doors. once, like the cyber truck, so in the end you get the same car, but it won't be a model.

Yes, this is not a model wire for illustration, it is not the next generation vehicle that you have probably seen if you looked at Tesla. Investor Day event, but a lot of what was talked about came down to reducing the cost of manufacturing while improving the end product itself. Tesla's goal is to reduce the cost of manufacturing but also at the same time improve the product itself, which is of course very difficult to do, but gives it a huge competitive advantage. Beyond that modular approach when it comes to how Tesla will actually save money on specific vehicle components, it can start with a powertrain that will be used in its new Next Generation Vehicle, for example with the permanent magnet motor model, that vehicle requires several rare earths to make the magnets for that motor;

However, as Tesla revealed at the Investors Day event, their next generation motor will be a permanent magnet motor that does not include rare earths and apparently this will be achieved and at the same time improve the vehicle itself because they say here in this slide lower cost, higher efficiency propulsion units that use zero rare earths, so once again this fits perfectly into what Tesla is trying to do. trying to reduce the cost and also improve the final product at the same time because apparently these new power units will be more efficient now. I don't want to go too deep into this topic and perhaps it would be a good topic for a separate discussion. video but I just want to talk briefly about a permanent magnet motor that does not use rare earths, how this is possible and what type of magnets would be used in that electric motor.

I recently published a great article that I will link to in the video description. When discussing Tesla's move away from rare earth elements in its new next-generation motors, this article mentioned that the rare earth most used in electric vehicle motors was neodymium; however, apparently dysprosium and terbium are also commonly used, these are probably the three rare earths found today. used in the model 3 and model y permanent magnet motors and these three rare earths apparently will not be used in their next generation motors. Now keep in mind that AC induction motors do not use rare earths, so if Tesla wanted to move away from rare earths.

This new next-generation platform could include AC induction motors; However, apparently these AC induction motors are not as efficient as permanent magnet motors, so efficiency will be especially important for their next-generation platform, specifically the Tesla compact, which should cost less. They are aiming for a 50% reduction in cost. It will be important to have a permanent magnet motor to reduce the size of the battery apparently due to efficiency, but at the same time you don't want to have a very expensive motor due to its high cost. rare earth materials, so this seems like a really smart move, but how is Tesla going to build a permanent magnet motor without rare earths?

Well, I did some research and found a company called Neuron Magnetics and this company actually focuses on rare earths. Earth-Free Permanent Magnets on their website describe their technology by saying that using a proprietary scalable process neuron will produce high-power magnets using commonly available iron and nitrogen raw materials that can be sourced globally and sustainably. Our manufacturing process combines advances and nanomaterials with well-understood mature metallurgical methods to deliver high-performance magnets at half the cost, as listed here. Your clean earth magnets should be able to have high performance, low cost, very high temperature stability, very high price stability and extremely low environmental issues from what I can tell you.

The technology revolves around iron nitride magnets and perhaps this is the same type of magnet that Tesla will use for its new permanent magnet motors, so removing rare earths from a permanent magnet motor will reduce the cost, but Tesla is also manufacturing others. move by making a 75 reduction in the silicon carbide transistor used in the powertrain power electronics and they are going to do this without sacrificing the performance or efficiency of a car when it comes to why this is important. I took out an article. on yahoo.com and in this article, states cite that silicon carbide is widely used in semiconductor manufacturing due to its properties, such as the ability to work at high voltage or high temperature, or both, and its form factor reduced, so it's obvious why you would want to do it. use a material like silicon carbide in the electronics of, say, an engine that has a lot of heat, but this article also makes it clear that the cost of silicon carbide is very high compared to other alternatives available on the market, for which apparently Tesla has found a good substitute for silicon carbide in the power electronics of these new motors and that will once again help reduce the cost of these motors even further and specifically Tesla claims that their next power unit will be a full cost of about a thousand dollars which should be the best in the industry, another way Teslawill improve the manufacturing cost when it comes to basic components of these new next generation vehicles comes down to moving the low voltage system from a 12 volt system to a 48 volt system in At the Investor Day event, Pete Bannon explained that basically going from a 12 volt architecture to 48 volts will allow Tesla to reduce the size of the cables because going to 48 volts reduces the current by a factor of 4 and therefore reduces the amount of heat generated by the cables. cables, this allows Tesla to use smaller cables and completely eliminate the heat sinks or reduce them in size and thus reduce the cost and weight of the wiring, but beyond the voltage jump that allows them to decrease the size of the cables, etc I just mentioned that Tesla is also moving their next-generation vehicles to 100 percent in-house design controllers, allowing them to use fewer controllers and simplify their wiring harness design;

For example, the Model S originally used quite a few vendor-supplied drivers; However, when Tesla moved to the Model 3, they were able to design more controllers in-house, allowing them to merge these controllers and thus reduce the number of cables needed with the latest model design and which has moved to 61 percent of the Tesla Design drivers, the Cyber ​​truck will include 85 percent of Tesla Design drivers and the next-generation Tesla vehicle will have 100 Tesla Design drivers, once again allowing for lower complexity and weight and it will make this easier to automate in the future, now it comes to when we should expect Tesla to introduce its next generation vehicle of the Tesla compact or even that pickup truck in the future, as the new Tesla factory in Mexico will be dedicated to I think a lot of that will depend on how quickly Tesla can build its new factory in Mexico, which I believe will be the first factory to build these new next-generation vehicles once the factory starts building.

It's very likely that we could see production within a year because Tesla builds factories very quickly and I think Mexico will help them streamline permitting processes etc. and they could do it in record time, so if I were guessing I would believe That this new next generation Tesla compact will likely come out at some point as a 2025 model year and quite possibly even as a late 2024 model during the Q session at the end of the Investor Day event. Elon Musk was specifically asked to share more details about the next-generation vehicle and Elon. Musk refused to do this and this of course makes a lot of sense because Tesla wants to make sure it doesn't steal cells and reduce demand for its current vehicles for people waiting for the new vehicle.

I think we won't do it. Watch the presentation of this vehicle until it is almost ready for production. I plan to make quite a few more videos on topics that were raised at Tesla's investor day, so if you're not already subscribed to the channel, I definitely recommend subscribing. so you can be notified when I post new videos and I would also love to hear from you in the comments section below if you have anything to share based on this topic or another topic that was raised at Tesla Investor Day. I especially want to thank Span for sponsoring this video and also thanks to everyone who supports me on Patreon.

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