Giga Castings with Sandy | Evolution of Tesla Bodies In White 

Sandy’s swag meter is at 9000 in this video, and I love to see it.

Having sponsors where Munro vets the design quality is genius, as it makes the viewer assured of the quality and for me that makes the advertisement much more valuable for the viewer and the sponsor. I usually just skip in-video ads, but in this case I did not and would also take the time to view them in the future for this channel.

Insanity of the video is that a 73 year old is telling the youngsters to embrace innovation/change. Truly amazing attitude from Sandy!

I rolled my eyes when the sponsor popped in, and then I came out impressed with how you backed the product. I don't even need one of these and I want it. Great work explaining castings too. Great job guys.

It's great to see the improvements and how excited you are about them. That's why it's important to just tell it like it is. If you praise everything, it doesn't push for improvement.

I can't even imagine how Sandy feels after years of wanting to make large castings happen in cars and finally seeing it come to fruition. Thank you Munro team for sharing this information with the world! I wish my dad were still alive to see these videos, he would have enjoyed them very much too. He did some diecasting and machine tool factory stuff back in the day.

I love hearing a 73 year old man shouting to the industry to think outside the box, promote change and innovation. Proves yet again that change is a mindset and does not diminish with age but with attitude. Getting younger people to run things does not automatically induce change for the better.

One of the best Munro Live video showcasing the competitive advantage Tesla has over Ford, GM, ....in building cars, not just battery technology and EV powertrain but advantage in how to build the whole car. Mind blowing.

Cory and Sandy reunited and it feels so good. Love Sandy's assessment of good design and Herbert Deiss.

I almost always enjoy the Munro Live videos but once in while you hit something Sandy has a passionate opinion on and it is 🔥 :) Great job everyone!

Holy cow… kudos to the Munro team for capturing that intro from Sandy. The passion, enthusiasm and pure excitement to educate came through loud and clear. Can’t fake passion like that and you captured gold right there. This video should be shown at the beginning of every engineering course across the country. Just awesome guys! And Sandy- thank you for trusting your team when they asked to produce this channel. Your content here is having a profound impact on so many… kudos to the #munrofactor !!!!

These castings make Sandy look like a child who FINALLY got his present that he always wanted haha, delightful sight!

Cory, you look like you have achieved a lean design yourself. Cheers to the great video.

Sandy's (well founded) ranting about striving to improve and advance the state-of-the-art reminds me of Steve Jobs saying "If you don't cannibalise your own products, someone else will" in regards to questions about the future of the then cash-cow iPod after the introduction of the iPhone, which nobody at the time thought would take off like it did (Jobs included).

When an engineer gets passionate, listen. That usually means it's one of those rare things that doesn't really have a technical trade off, and the only thing stopping us is bureaucracy.

I had seen Anker products before and even owned one of their USB wall chargers, but I really didn't have a feel for whether they were worth the significant price premium... Seeing that you tore down their battery pack and still felt comfortable recommending it is a real vote of confidence!

This is a good example of disruptive technology and every engineer should watch this video. Total mind blowing! Thank you!

Never seen Sandy so triggered!! This is pure passion of love for the work Munro carries out. Keep these videos coming, they're so informative and to the point !!! ♥️

Awesome video. Sandy was fired up. Tesla operates how artificial intelligence is supposed to operate. Faster iterations and progress than ever seen before. Constantly evolving.

I love the Herbert Deiss comment. When I heard of his being pushed out of VW, my immediate reaction was seeing a disaster being implemented by the change. I got the impression VW is skeptical about EV's and they are going to pull a Toyota and bank on regulators to extend the electrification deadlines ad infinitum based upon their true inability to adapt in a more aggressive way. Deiss was holding the feet of the company to the fire on that score and they dumped him. Not good.

Love this coverage and statements made in it. Thanks for brining up the damage to the casting since so many people fail to understand to damage the casting, you will be happy to walk out alive since you have crush cans etc to take most of the inertia. The financial saving for the Giga castings is crazy, not just in part cost being cheaper but also logistics, chance of failure, quality check, molds for the small parts, workers, fixtures all cost A LOT of money.

Great video and education. Those complain about crack fixing issue have no idea of how stiff the structure is. Every time you remove a join/bolt/weld and integrate two pieces in a continuous form, the stress transfer becomes more streamline and hence yields the structural rigidity. In short, more weld/join/bolt = higher risk of failure

The latest casting looks like the Flinstones, simple and clean. No floor. Love it!

Cory, you truly have a knack for video production. Really has been fun watching you grow this channel. Thanks for your efforts!

Munro Live is going to be great for the future of manufacturing. There's a child or young adult watching this, who will develop a love for engineering and manufacturing, based on your content. We need more people thinking about manufacturing and less about law and finance. Thanks for everything you do.

maybe the best episode so far, was as live as it gets.

By far the best Anker sponsorship for this product. Really shows how much Anker is confident in their engineering.

respect for the herbert diess shout-out. one of the few forward-thinking leaders in the otherwise stagnant automotive space

So many good quips in this one. Didn’t realize I subscribed to a comedy show

This was great man. Loved Sandy's contributions especially, had to laugh a few times. Good to show props to Herbert Diess, one of the great!

“I’m not popular.” And that is why we love you Sandy. We need people like you that keep it straight.

"I'm not popular" - Sandy Munro. His intellectual honesty is exemplary and that's why we love this guy.

Nice seeing the last three generations body in white side by side. The changes and improvement are striking. Morning cup of coffee + Sandy Rant = A most excellent start to my Friday Can you share the weight of each body in white?

pretty insane that Tesla can make these changes in such a short amount of time on a production vehicle.

"It takes several years to move a design for a car into production." ALL I.C.E. car makers "As quick as our suppliers can deliver, we can change a car's production design - accomplished in MONTHS." Tesla "Production improvements CAN be made at the speed of thought." Sandy Munro

Sandy's blown away-ness tells you everything about the state of the auto industry

Best line ever "but I'm not popular". Sandy and Cory - everyone loves your frank and unadultered honesty, please keep it coming, everyone is sick of the propaganda and MSM BS. You guys are the best.

I love it when Sandy tells it like it is.

Love how you guys showed the drastic improvements they've made in manufacturing over such a short period of time. Also, the bit about Herbert Diess at the end 🙌

Sandy: "I'm not popular." Also Sandy: *has 310,000+ subscribers of curious engineers, company members and ordinary people like me*

Glad to see your company embracing change and growing its awesome to witness

Very nice demonstration. Good to see Sandy back in front of the camera. It is things like the giga casting evoltion that 'analysts' miss when they place Tesla in the same category as legacy auto. More Sandy videos please.

Hands down your best video! Not because your glowing review of the Model Y castings, but the way you clearly articulate the differences between the 3 and the 2022 Y. You absolutely crushed it!

I love seeing Sandy fired up. His passion is fantastic hard to believe many in the auto industry have the same enthusiasm. Great video.

More change by Tesla in 5 years than the legacy auto companies have in the last 50

Stock value - I have a friend who kept away from investing in Tesla while I just kept buying,, especially in the last dip. He did end up investing a few shares, but then sold according to his fancy charts. He just didn't understand how Tesla is different, and this is just the car business section, not to mention solar, software, AI, etc. Thanks Sandy for making this clear and convincing!

I feel like we've been waiting for this moment to arrive for more than 3 years and it shows Sandy is quite relieved/redeemed to see Tesla follow through so successfully.

Another great video from Munro! This video should be required viewing for all those involved in vehicle design, manufacture and management!

This is probably the best ever Monroe and Associates video I have ever seen !! They are always interesting, but I'm not a qualified engineer (wish I was!) and they are sometimes a bit complicated. But this time with the presentation of the 4 bodyshells and their evolutionary journey in such a short time, I got it, I really properly got it. Thank you both, Cory and Sandy - what a tag team - for giving me such a lesson that I will never allow myself to forget.

Anker giving Sandy a product to rip apart is the most Op marketing move I've seen in a couple of years.

This is exactly why I love this company. The management actually listens. They take their ego out of the situation and simply do what is right to create the best product. This is so rare.

Wow Cory and team really like how you lined up 3 generations of Telsa next to each other and let Sandy give a master class on car body design evolution. Well done. one of the best videos ever!

Thanks for the teardown of the Anker battery and $200 off coupon, was looking for good, not cheap, battery pack like that size.

You🥰 are 1 of a kind - love your honesty

Hi Sandy, always love your channel with all this innovative info!

I am an ex casting engineer at a Japanese car company. At my place, casting parts are mostly used in car engines and are under the responsibility of the engine group. Meanwhile, the body group is responsible for the inside of the car body. With Tesla's courage and great success in redesigning the car body, there is no doubt that all car manufacturers will follow suit in the next few years. This could provide benefits to casting engineers wherever they are, as their needs will double or triple in the automotive industry.

FINALLY, somebody knows and understands what innovation is! The TESLA way is love at first sight! Frustrating to see how most companies still work in 2020. Especially when you have to work for a Takumi engineer wanna-be! Sandy, I guess we speak Swahili for them :-)

Good video, really liked the support for Herbert Diess at the end. Too many people are tossed aside by corporations and it can be a kick in the gut. It's good to stand up for a good man when he's down.

Thanks for the short history lesson on Tesla's improvement process. It's a great motivation for engineers.

Sandy is hitting on all cylinders. Makes me delighted to see that the age of the mind is indeed separate and distinct from the aged skin and gray hair. He is a brilliant man, full of the sort of career-spanning knowledge that makes all of his observations so cogent and important. Bravo and well done, sir!

That horse analogy was... umm.. Try to avoid analogies all together, especially when you have such a great prop in front of you. Love you guys. Sandy is great. Corey is awesome.

told and explained the way all presentations should go..thank you sandy

Well boys...this is the video that puts both of you guys out front as engineers who can discuss realities in design where Mr. Average and Mrs. Average car owners can understand the evolution of vehicles. Buckminster Fuller would be smiling, knowing you are getting there. Well done...keep up the good work!

I am very proud and happy to work in this department at the GFBB in Germany after hearing these words and your comments (Special thanks to the great man for this beautiful (explanation

Tesla continues to raise the bar, push the envelope and disrupt. We will all benefit because of it. Love it. Thanks Sandy

Love a good Sandy rant! Thank you Team Munro😎

You guys make engineering interesting to the normies. Thanks

If Sandy is a fan of large structural automotive castings, he would absolutely love what I’ve come up with. I can do a nearly complete body in white with 3 gigacastings, 4 extrusions, and 2 floor stampings. The doors and lift gate structures would also be gigacast with injection molded plastic skins inside and out. Assembly would be very simple with thermal slip fit techniques along with snap fit panels and a handful of interior fasteners to prevent attempted disassembly from outside the vehicle.

The progress is a great complement to both Munro and Tesla . Engineers at legacy auto must watch these and weep, they know what needs to be done but the suits get in the way.

Thanks Sandy. I would short that Casting-fixing-thing to 1 point: If you have an accident and the casting is cracked and you get out of the car nearly uninjured, than be happy you are still alive and buy the next Tesla. The force needed to crack the casting in case of an accident normally kills ppl. Live saving is more worth than a giant piece of aluminium.

Great good guys thank you and thanks for giving Herbert a shout out!

I’ve missed Sandy’s enthusiasm. It’s good to see him in a video again.

Incredible work on part of tesla and idra. Revolutionary.

I know nothing about cars or metallurgy but I feel like "Peter Venkman" right now. It makes me smile to see the evolution of a car company, like Tesla, doing so much to make the world a safer place.

As an engineer this video is a breath of fresh air. Love Sandy's attitude and commentary.

OK - I am a retired GE Mechanical Engineer. I grew up in a garage/dealership. I am a “gear head”, just like you guys. I have been a student of Tesla. Here are some points to consider: 1) In 2012 there was a RU-vid video of a Model S showing a box (like a thick Domino’s pizza box), on the roof. In 2014, there was another video showing early FSD, and the two guys were driving on a small CA back road. They said oh look, there is a Nikola Tesla tower out in the middle of that field. The tower had an elongated base like the Statue of Liberty, and a slender stainless cone with a sphere on top. I guessed that the tower was 60-75 ft tall and the top ball was maybe 16-20 ft in diameter. My “gut” says that they were testing Nikola Tesla powering of the electric car!!! To me, the current EVs are just a stop gap, with their large batteries. If you have a constant flow of electricity coming into an electric car (EC), you will only need a small battery for dynamic braking/acceleration(like a hybrid battery). There has also been some conspiracy information saying that the power distribution will be performed by the Starlink Satellites. Internet will be a sub frequency of the Quantum Resonance. The ECs will be vastly simplistic. 2) In ~2019, Elon made a number of diecast kids Model 3 cars. Why did he do this??? I think, he wanted to see what painted/wrapped surfaces looked like for future ECs. Last year, he took bails of recycled aluminum cans, smelted them and added in his alloys, AND produced billets for the Giga Presses. So I see a small car (Model 2) that has 4 main castings(skateboard/left side//right side/roof with roll bars) and numerous small castings, that make the entire body. What if there are NO stamped metal parts?? Body cost would be about 10-15% of current cost!!! Mostly robotic assembly, maybe NO welding. His Model 3 dreams just might be realized!!! 3) One of the first jobs that his new robots will tackle are installing wiring harnesses. Expect roof harnesses to be installed prior to the body being assembled, along with the entire dash, plus fire walls. The skateboard will have wiring harness, seats and console, just like the current battery pack. What if the body castings are painted/wrapped, cast doors are hung(with panel inserts) to the left and right sides, the hood and trunk/hatch are hung to the roof casting; and the entire car is assembled by bolting these major castings together. Then plastic panels are snapped in place covering the bolts. Four major casting assemblies form 98% of the finished car, except for plugging together wiring harnesses. Just a thought...

So glad you took apart the anker battery generator. Keep up the great videos

4:18 "and I know some of the engineers out there are gonna say: 'Oh man he's gonna rub our nose in it again', and the answer is correct". LMAO

So nice to hear Cost of Quality mentioned. Having been in the quality arena for 30 years, no one is so close to quality as Sandy. Also, process improvement is a large part of quality and no one exemplifies that better than Elon Musk and Tesla. Instead of Kaizen or TPS and step improvements, First Principles goes for the breakthrough process and is THE quality improvement methodology of the future. Sandy and Elon say so many quality related ideas such as reduced process steps, reduced parts, no spaghetti diagrams, Poka Yoke or mistake proof process, its just great! And Tesla has no problem with others seeing these videos because Elon has a mission to expand the knowledge, not hold tight to it. Thanks for the great presentation guys.

Mr. Munro has all my respect as a teacher, good engineer(rare in those days) and a dedicated citizen of USA.

Fantastic video, great to see Sandy so passionate and almost in awe at the pace and increase of innovation at Tesla, thanks to both of you, and the rest of Lean Design, for all you do and sharing it with us here :)

Great episode. Thank you. Can't wait for castings for the 2nd generation model 3. And a model 3+3 with three motors.

I just love watching Sandy. He is so smart and gets his points across so well.

It turns out Cory is not just an excellent engineer / consultant BUT can also have fun! Sandy's message, backed up by a quote from Dr. Deming, was perfect. Excellent work!

One of your best yet 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Longest and best intro,. It is and I loved it.

Wow ! This is a moment in the history of auto manufacturing. Thank you Sandy and Cory & Associates.

This is ML's best video and demonstrates the excellent value Monroe Associates brings to the design table. Without ML I would have no idea how amazing the Tesla engineering evolution process.

These last two posts by Sandy should change the whole world. If they listen!! It puts a new spin on a old saying: Getting better every day. Getting smarter everyday. Great Job Munro Team Spectacular Job Team Tesla

Gotta say, I loved the breakdown and endorsement of the Anker system. Before I buy something I always look at product reviews, but where can you get a product review with a full teardown and engineering examination? Munro Live! 🍻

Thanks Sandy & Co., this is the best information I've enjoyed today. I think a useful abbreviation for around the 13 minute mark, is that good enough has fairly well known costs and little deviation, whereas perfection can and will support infinite costs, forever. Or something like. Looking forward to more. Motorcycle industry was doing the same dreck 40 years back, when I bent formula and fuel MC frames.

This is one of the Best videos I have seen from Munro Live. Showing the progress of the design and manufacturing evolution of the Model 3 has no better way to see it. THANKs for sharing this!

🤗THANKS SANDY,CORY,ERIC FOR A MIND-BLOWING EPISODE 🤯🤯👍 And ALL YOUR STAFF doing all the behind the scenes work 😅 and the patrons for supporting you 😍😍😍

I love these. Could watch all day.

I loved the first few minutes of explanation. Sunday was awesome ! Thank you sir !!

Sandy was on fire in this one.

Love these videos! great job team Munro!

Next step in the evolution is the CyberTruck.

Cracking video guys and not often I rewind an advert! Totally sold out in UK!

As my thank you to Munro and Associates, I’m not skipping all the advertisements in every reviews they presents because the reviews they’re giving us are not cheap. Munro Associates is tearing down expensive cars that all of us may see first hand from their expertise. I’m learning a lot from them when it comes to car manufacturing and engineering. Let’s help this channel by not skipping the ads. Cheers 🥂