The brand new Tesla Cybertruck remains to be very a lot within the release-candidate (RC) section, with a brand new leaked video printed on the Tesla CyberTruck Fb group by Chane Eckert exhibiting a single unit being assembled by hand on the ground of the corporate’s Gigafactory in Texas, the place full-scale manufacturing is scheduled to start subsequent 12 months.
The quick video was shot from the passenger seat of a store flooring transport automobile and provides us a glimpse of a yet-to-be-finished Cybertruck physique surrounded by Tesla workers who’re doing their half in assembling the all-electric truck.
The automobile shouldn’t be on an automatic meeting line as is the case with the marque’s different passenger autos, however somewhat on a trolley that may make it simpler to maneuver the physique from one part of the manufacturing unit to a different.
It’s exhausting to note effective particulars, however from what we will collect, the pickup has its inside already put in, in addition to its windshield. On the identical time, the doorways and all the opposite bolt-on physique elements are nonetheless lacking, in all probability as a result of the employees nonetheless needed to match inside items or equipment that sit underneath the bodywork.
It’s value noting that this strategy is usually utilized by all the most important automakers on the market, assembling a brand new mannequin by hand and figuring out all the issues earlier than the mannequin goes on the automated meeting line to be produced for buyer deliveries.
Judging from earlier official images launched by Tesla, the metallic construction of the Cybertruck is already put collectively by varied robots, however the closing meeting now appears to be within the fingers of workers, fairly actually.
Tesla Giga Texas: Manufacturing line, constructing Cybertruck RC (launch candidate) items
Through the firm’s Q2 2023 Earnings Name, it was introduced that the all-electric pickup is at the moment within the pre-production section at Giga Texas, with preliminary customer-intent manufacturing on monitor to start later this 12 months.
On the identical time, Tesla claimed that the much-anticipated and – on the identical time – delayed Cybertruck is the primary sub-19 ft truck with 4 doorways and a mattress that’s longer than 6 ft.
“So far as we all know, Cybertruck would be the first sub-19 ft. truck (becoming right into a storage) that has each 4 doorways and a 6+ ft. mattress,” the corporate mentioned. “Each technologically and architecturally, this automobile will break numerous boundaries – very a lot in step with how we take into consideration automobile engineering and manufacturing.”
The Cybertruck was unveiled again in 2019 and was imagined to enter manufacturing two years later, however the pandemic got here and put the brakes on growth. Now, nearly 4 years after the reveal, the extremely anticipated angular truck is inching nearer and nearer to full-scale manufacturing, with Elon Musk saying that demand for it’s “so off the hook, you’ll be able to’t even see the hook.”