Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix::Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla’s “gigacasting.” But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.
Increase productivity by 20% will reduce price by?
“Increase productivity by 20% will ~reduce price~ increase profits by?”
Right?
Right!?
There is demand for their cars, how would that change through more efficient manufacturing? Remember demand drives price.
However, withing a few decades probably every mamjfacturer will adopt this technique, which will enable them to ask for less to drives sales. Then all manufacturers will have to reduce prices.
As has been pointed out MANY times on the current CAST items if you have an accident large enough to go through the replaceable parts the crash bars and it DOES damage the cast it is a write off anyway.
Yeah, I thought this was already an issue with unibody designs. Once the internal structure is damaged, it’s a write-off either way.
I was wondering why this wouldn’t make insurance unaffordable and the car unsellable, if it were a real issue, and that answers it - thanks.
These days repairs on regular cars are so cost prohibitive, that if the accident is severe enough to deploy airbags it’s a write off.
Exactly, it isn’t unusual
Just watched a video of a guy doing no-paint dent removal on a rivian bumper after a bodyshop had quoted him 41k USD for repair. That’s 4 times the value of my truck.
If it wasn’t Rich Rebuilds, then I’m at a loss.
