Tesla’s Master Class In Modular Assembly - Autoline On The Road 

Re: Supplier Accommodation. Actually maximizing parts commonalities across all Tesla models makes it easier & more predictable to optimize supplier production lines & even incorporate enhancements as those opportunities present themselves. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!

If, that's a big "if" some legacy auto survives this automation system, the unions days are numbered...

they are already gasping HARD as the new EU laws on emissions are advancing. european legacy automakers wants the government to step in to stop the new brands to rob them from their customers, and their billions of revenue of servicing ice cars...@@mbabcock111

Wow how did I miss this video 🤯

You should do a video on this , SMR!

like in ikea

Like Ikea does with furniture!

Something like an oversized Airfix model?

Hehe yes please!

Assembly is cheap for them and shipping, unlike ikea, is easier once assembled. The end product literally drives itself 😂

Well, it wasn't always that way, and John still holds court with a couple of 4 barrel carb guys., and they all used to laugh at Tesla. Times change

This demo (charade) is an absolute farce aimed at low information fanboys.

Sandy Munro does some of this, but not to the scale of here lets rebuild the car.

You can put it together on a weekend. This should in theory also reduce repair costs.

Reminds me of the snap tight plastic model car kits I used to build as a kid.

I’m sure SMR could work up a reaction video to Autoline.

He’s a spy for Vinfast!

But they gonna replace workers with robots. What about the workers

@@KalsRcAdventuresbut inexpensive cars though. What if you could get a Tesla for $15k? Brand new?

@therJrep u not getting what I'm saying lol. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

@@KalsRcAdventures you’re not getting what I’m saying. You think technology and increases in efficiency is bad?? 🤣

@therJrep again u not getting me. 😒

Take less time than that, just run over a bump and the parts will fall off.

The real question is why were legacy OEMs so stupid. How did their culture become so broken?

😂@@heathwirt8919

@@taylorc2542 The real real question is why so many clueless people are duped by a conman named Musk.

@@taylorc2542 bean counters who are smug and smarter than engineers lol:)

I am a relatively amateur "mechanic" but know enough to change things like spark-plugs, filters and fanbelts. A month ago, I had to devote an entire day to fitting a new drive-belt to the power-steering unit, and needed to remove around 20 other parts before I could get to the belt.

@@brunosmith6925 And people complain that EV's are too complex and that ICE vehicles are much simpler. I always know they never did any kind of basic maintenance operation on a car ever in their lives.

Coolest thing I've seen in a long time for car manufacturing. Amazing with both seats, lid serving as the floor, carpets and center console all inc. It still only weighs 1,150# or so according to the munro tear down of a 4680 model Y. First ev car ever in production using a U.S. built 4680 cell and a U.S. built structural pack plus front and rear single piece castings. 😎👍🏻

Let the Legacy fools strike. It'll cost more to produce products that can't compete. That story sounds familiar.

"...they have traditional stamping presses bought and paid for..." Bought, yes... but probably not yet paid-for. Legacy automotive tends to fund everything with debt - another big problem that they may struggle to solve.

Legacy automaker, GM, had a huge casting the size of the entire fender on the Alpha platform (Camaro, ATS) back in 2016. Multiple parts consolidated and mega weight savings. Just because Tesla is doing something smart, does not mean legacy automakers are not also doing it.

@@MSportsEngineering but you know the size differences between a fender and the who back underbody of a car including two fenders. This is what tesla and the gigacasting machine producer in italy had to figure out because it wasn't posible before to do it well that big.

Legacy is moving towards this as fast as they can (source an engineer friend of mine at a legacy automaker).

How you know?

True simplicity can be much harder to achieve than complexity. I see the same thing in the software world.

@@brunoheggli2888 TRY achieving a similar result with your own product. It's difficult and costly.

He could assemby some lego bricks and you all would tell us how mindbowing it would be if tbey had the Tesla sign on it!

@@brunoheggli2888is this not impressive in the simplicity and efficiency of assembly? This reduces cost and reduces the chances of something being assembled incorrectly. It is the reason Tesla can make their cars as good for as cheap and fast as they do

@@SyntheticSpy This is nothing special,Toyota invented it!It even has a japanese name!

@@SyntheticSpy its called" poka yoke" Toyota and many others do this since decades!

@@SyntheticSpy What comes next?"Kaizen "is now also something new from Tesla?Why dont you tell us that Sushi is also a Tesla invention!

One of many 😀

I hope Fain is watching this

The only thing is shows is how little it takes to fool low information fanboys. A complete farce.

@@heathwirt8919if by “fool” you mean present a factual demonstration of the simplicity of assembly the cars have been designed with, then yes it is fooling people…

@@SyntheticSpy A demonstration so dumbed down even a know nothing tesla fanboy could comprehend it. Ultimately is a BS promotional video that's meaningless.

People still wonder why VW is in massive financial problem, then I see this and I understand what's coming. They really won't know what hit them. And think that the Model 3/Y are still basically the first generation of cars that were adapted to this philosophy. Think about the next generation of EV's that will be also designed to be better and cheaper to assemble with all the practical experience they've gained from here.

Ultium Battery platform is a total mess, they should scrap it and start over again. The amount of additional packaging layers is just absurd. Easily could remove 2 layers.

So did Shawn Fain of the UAW.

@@mikedx2706sadly, neither management of Detroit 3 nor Fain are paying attention to facts - they are having a cat fight at the country club and thinking it is 1970.

Clearly wasn't designed by German car makers! It's too simple and no special factory tools were needed!

@@mikedx2706 hehehe

They Understood , The Pentagon even told them 20 years ago in a goverment funded study ,there's a video that explains it. "Winning the Oil Endgame presented by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountian Institute .It is on RU-vid

Sandy Monroe explained this. No one speaks up so they don’t lose their jobs or get passed in being promoted! Don’t rock the boat!! Legacy automakers do changes slowly & once a year once upper management buys in on it where Tesla workers are constantly innovating & doing changes when needed! Engineering works together to resolve issues!

It's not the engineers. They would have to change the whole corporate structure, and then the whole corporate culture, before they could begin to try to do things the same way as Tesla.

@@davidmenasco5743 Good point David. Given the opportunity, any good engineer will strive towards improvement and efficiency. The tragedy with most of the legacy OEM's is that they have never (and never will) give their engineers the freedom and flexibility to affect changes quickly. When a company is run by accountants, business sense goes out the window.

It's more the unions than the accountants. Unions like 10 men to make the car where Tesla like none, robots don't pay union membership

Right. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!

Re: Supplier Accommodation. Actually maximizing parts commonalities across all Tesla models makes it easier & more predictable to optimize supplier production lines & even incorporate enhancements as those opportunities present themselves. The car assembly leverages gravity to “fall” together (e.g., first principles design resulting in the preponderance of vertical fasteners & locators). Soon, “Unboxed” assembly principles will allow for “one touch” & just-in-time arrival of all parts to where/when needed, resulting in further orders of magnitude efficiencies that the legacies have ignored for over 100 years & will take at least 5-10 more years (given they survive) to match these technological leaps!

All while maintaining the lowest build quality in the industry, another Tesla exclusive.

​@@heathwirt8919Agreed. This is cheap junk

@@heathwirt8919 False narrative. Try again.

The UAW better start demanding job retraining for its members right now in its new contract with the Remaining Three.

​@@ChitFromChinola It's not really false narrative right now. Tesla has some of the lowest build quality in the industry. Will they forever? Who knows, but rignt now it is less than stellar.

Not bad for a start-up manufacture.

You got one thing right, castings are brittle.

@@heathwirt8919 You mean that castings are brittle like an engine block?

@@heathwirt8919 You should watch Sandy Munro take a sledgehammer to a casting in a video out today.

@@martingardens Sandy is a musk stooge and he could barely lift a sledge hammer.

​ @RayNLA; poor analogy.... but just for the fun of it, let's stick with that crappy analogy.... an aluminum casted engine block, needs to utilize 'steel' liners, to come close to the durability. of a 'steel' block ... FWIW a bicycle frame would have been a more appropriate analogy... A steel bicycle frame can last forever If it is kept rust free, an aluminum bicycle bike frame usually only lasts for about 5 years or less before structural significant cracks start forming .... Aluminum protects itself against oxidation and is lighter....Which explains why it's being used more and more... It's just not as durable, against fatigue.... Enjoy the Kool-Aid....

They've seen it well before this

Irony is that most engineers in the legacy OEM industry KNOW this already. They are prevented from influencing design by the comanies' bosses - who are usually non-technical accountants. Some of the biggest corporate failures in history have been a result of accountants running the business. If you work for a company that is run by accountants, then the risk of your job disappearing are very high.

@@brunosmith6925 great point.

John is one of the more respectable observers in the automotive industry, and while he was once very skeptial of Tesla (ofetn for good reasons), he paid attention to the rate of improvements and now acknowledges Tesla as the industry leader.

@@brunosmith6925 He missed the largest and most successful product launch (automotive or otherwise) in history. That says a lot about his knowledge of the industry.

Fischer Technik. Lego has no metal parts.

Except he didn't come up with that niether did Tesla . Tesla did bring it to market .That way of building was proposed 20 years ago .

Perhaps you were looking at a 2012 Tesla or car that was salvaged and made from multiple cars. On my 2022 Tesla S and Y the gaps are equal to our Lexus (i.e. very good).

Tesla fanboys love big panel gaps and sagging door seals, all part of sloppy modular assembly. A tesla exclusive.

🤡@@heathwirt8919

@@heathwirt8919 The panel-gap FUD was addressed some years ago. A few months ago, Toyota tore down a Model-Y and apart from finding some of the highest precision-fitting in any car, the head of engineering at Toyota described the car as "an engineering masterpiece". Additionally, Sandy Munro (who highlighted panel-gap issues on early Model-3's, recently measured gaps on latest model-3 and model-y cars and found the precision to be more accurate than most other legacy OEM's. So... these are the facts. Looks like you need to do some proper research - or you can continue looking stupid... your choice.

@@tesla_tap yea people who think Tesla have big panel gaps are reading the nonsense from MSM . ALL advertisers want Tesla to slow down because ALL auto makers want Tesla to slow down , follow the money.

Or lawn tractors.

They are being cheap. Thats all

They saw the market research that people don't use the frunk very often.

ICE company engineering.

Too many hoses and wires. As mentioned in the video, Tesla eliminates a part where it can or do multipurpose (1 part instead of 2). Legacy tries to use what they have in their parts bin even though it might be too big. Legacy also uses platforms that need to accommodate ICE.

It's the heating and cooling system design.