Tesla and Stellantis-owned Comau Robotics are organising a brand new sequence of automation tools for manufacturing at Tesla’s Fremont Manufacturing unit in Northern California. In response to permits submitted by Tesla to the Metropolis of Fremont, Tesla will start to anchor and set up Comau’s merchandise that entail extremely automated and efficient manufacturing strategies which are designed for electrical autos.
In response to permits submitted to Fremont, Tesla plans to put in some new automation tools at its Fremont Manufacturing unit. Fremont is the one manufacturing facility the place Tesla builds all 4 fashions of its at present accessible electrical lineup. The corporate has made nice strides to extend manufacturing effectivity via the usage of automation. Whereas CEO Elon Musk admitted previously that he neglected the significance of people working some parts of a producing line, Tesla nonetheless understands that making all components of the manufacturing course of environment friendly will assist the corporate attain its lofty manufacturing and supply targets, particularly as demand continues to extend.
Credit score: Metropolis of Fremont
Upon preliminary examination of Tesla’s utility, it states that Comau, an Italian producer of producing merchandise, might be offering Tesla will the machines. Curiously, Comau is a subsidiary of mother or father firm Stellantis, to who Tesla has been promoting regulatory credit to for the previous few years. Technically, Tesla has been promoting these credit to Fiat-Chrysler Vehicles (FCA). Nonetheless, Stellantis just lately bought FCA, together with a number of different notable automotive manufacturers like Jeep, Dodge, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Mopar.
It was introduced earlier this week by Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares that the corporate would no longer need to purchase the regulatory credits from Tesla because it might attain CO2 emissions targets by itself. “With {the electrical} expertise that PSA dropped at Stellantis, we’ll autonomously meet carbon dioxide emission rules as early as this yr. Thus, we won’t must name on European CO2 credit, and FCA will now not should pool with Tesla or anybody,” Tavares said.
Comau, whereas owned by the comparatively new Stellantis, has been within the enterprise of producing tools since 1984. Earlier this yr, Comau also began collaborating with Rockwell Automation in an effort to simplify robotic integration for automotive producers. The partnership between Rockwell and Comau was introduced on April twentieth, 2021, and may broaden the variety of robotic functions which are rooted within the automotive business.
Sure, extreme automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be exact, my mistake. People are underrated.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2018
Curiously, Rockwell opened an electrical automobile innovation heart in Silicon Valley in 2019. The corporate’s launch of the positioning was introduced in a video, the place Rockwell included a number of footage of Tesla electrical autos. Nonetheless, no official partnership between Tesla and Rockwell is obvious on the present time.
Comau’s experience in electrical autos goes deep and has been for issues like battery manufacturing and e-Drive manufacturing. The corporate has a number of sorts of methods which are efficient for both low or high-volume manufacturing, and its confirmed and prolonged historical past of expertise within the manufacturing sector with robotics might assist Tesla sustain with demand developments as the corporate continues to rage ahead with elevated manufacturing charges.
