{"id":172148,"date":"2023-09-16T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/tesla-reportedly-makes-one-piece-giga-casting-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:22:41","slug":"tesla-reportedly-makes-one-piece-giga-casting-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/tesla-reportedly-makes-one-piece-giga-casting-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Reportedly Makes One-Piece Giga Casting Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-reportedly-makes-one-piece-giga-casting-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this could transform the way Tesla builds EVs and contribute decisively to halving production costs, which is a long-time goal of CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said the know-how to achieve that is core to <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/655446\/tesla-teases-futuristic-assembly-next-gen-electric-cars\/\">Tesla\u2019s \u201cunboxed\u201d manufacturing strategy unveiled by Elon Musk in March<\/a>, which is key to his plan to build tens of millions of cheaper EVs over the next ten years, and still turn a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the insiders said Tesla\u2019s new design and manufacturing techniques could allow the company to develop a car from the ground up in 18\u201324 months, compared to 3\u20134 years for most rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, this could transform the way Tesla builds EVs and contribute decisively to halving production costs, which is a long-time goal of CEO Elon Musk. The sources said the know-how to achieve that is core to Tesla\u2019s \u201cunboxed\u201d manufacturing strategy unveiled by Elon Musk in March, which is key to his plan to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172148","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}