{"id":134670,"date":"2022-01-25T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/nio-xpeng-supplier-planning-massive-giga-press-w-tesla-supplier"},"modified":"2022-01-25T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T03:22:19","slug":"nio-xpeng-supplier-planning-massive-giga-press-w-tesla-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/nio-xpeng-supplier-planning-massive-giga-press-w-tesla-supplier","title":{"rendered":"NIO, Xpeng Supplier Planning Massive Giga Press W\/ Tesla Supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nio-xpeng-supplier-planning-massive-giga-press-w-tesla-supplier3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/nio\/\">NIO<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/xpeng\/\">Xpeng<\/a> supplier Guangdong Hongtu Technology (GHT) already produced a 6,800-ton die-casting machine. Now it has announced it will start developing a 12,000-ton casting machine in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/\">Tesla<\/a> supplier LK Technology.<\/p>\n<p>If you follow Tesla, you likely know that its <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/563005\/tesla-giga-press-idra-documentary\/\">\u201cGiga Press\u201d technology<\/a> should work to make manufacturing more streamlined and efficient. Reportedly, Chinese EV makers, such as NIO and Xpeng, may be considering following suit. In fact, while NIO hasn\u2019t made an official announcement related to the future use of a GHT machine, it has posted images of an ET5\u2019s single-piece casting on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIO and Xpeng supplier Guangdong Hongtu Technology (GHT) already produced a 6,800-ton die-casting machine. Now it has announced it will start developing a 12,000-ton casting machine in partnership with Tesla supplier LK Technology. If you follow Tesla, you likely know that its \u201cGiga Press\u201d technology should work to make manufacturing more streamlined and efficient. Reportedly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}