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What dis ?

De droom van Musk?

https://electrek.co/2019/07/23/tesla...ody-one-piece/

Elon’s vision of “the machine that builds the machine” is starting to come to life.

Ben ook benieuwd naar het gewicht van het model Y tov model 3 en hoeveel ze besparen aan cablage. Is een patent wat *gisteren op electrek kwam

Electrek’s Take

“Reduce build time, operation costs, costs of manufacturing, factory footprint,” those are all things that Tesla needs to do with Model Y production in order to be able to squeeze it into the Fremont factory.

It’s also likely what Tesla is planning to do for Gigafactory 3 in China and that’s why the company is anticipating a much lower need for capital expenditure at the factory in order to start production.

When taking into account the new wiring architecture we reported on yesterday, it looks like Tesla is lining up some pretty significant manufacturing improvements that could make a big difference to Tesla’s manufacturing costs when combined together.

* https://electrek.co/2019/07/22/tesla...obots-model-y/

CEO Elon Musk said that one of their biggest mistakes with their attempt at highly automating the production of the Model 3 was trying to automate tasks that humans are much better at than robots, like manipulating cables.

In order to facilitate the automation of manipulating cables, Tesla has been reducing the length of wiring harnesses in its vehicles.

Musk said that Model S has about 3 kilometers of wiring harnesses and Tesla brought it down to 1.5 kilometers in length for the Model 3.

But that’s just the beginning. Tesla is working on a whole new wiring architecture for future vehicle platforms and they aim to bring it down to just 100 meters starting with the Model Y.

In a new patent application that recently became public and was obtained by Electrek, Tesla revealed the first details of this new wiring architecture:

“In this new wiring architecture, subsystems are packaged and defined in one or multiple assemblies in certain embodiments. For example, a door assembly might contain one controller (or hub) that controls multiple devices, such as locking components, lighting components, audio components, etc. In addition to decreasing the number and length of wiring needed, the ability to create these subassemblies and then connect them to the wiring-architecture backbone will decrease assembly time during general assembly, which is very desirable to increase productivity in a vehicle manufacturing process. The subassembly may be created ahead of general assembly with only the connection between the door subassembly and subsystem made and verified during general assembly.”

Here are a few drawings that Tesla released in the patent application:
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Tesla’s patent application describes more rigid wiring harness systems that can be more easily manipulated by robots, which is currently one of the main reasons why general assembly is the more labor extensive parts of overall car production.