Tesla has unveiled its newest structural battery pack with 4680 cells throughout a Gigafactory Berlin tour forward of the beginning of Mannequin Y manufacturing on the new manufacturing unit.
The beginning of manufacturing at Gigafactory Berlin isn’t just vital for Tesla’s progress in Europe, however it is going to additionally mark the launch of an necessary new model of the Mannequin Y.
Tesla plans to construct the brand new Mannequin Y at Gigafactory Berlin on a complete new platform with its structural battery pack.
Earlier this 12 months, Electrek obtained the primary picture of a Tesla structural battery pack prototype.
At its Battery Day occasion final 12 months, Tesla not solely unveiled its new 4680 battery cell but in addition a brand new battery structure constructed across the new cell.
Impressed by the aerospace innovation of constructing airplane wings as gasoline tanks as a substitute of constructing the gasoline tanks contained in the wings, Tesla determined to construct a battery pack that acts as a physique construction, linking the entrance and rear underbody elements.
At the moment, Tesla builds battery packs by combining cells into modules, which when put collectively kind a battery pack. That battery pack is put in into the car platform.
The distinction with this new idea is that Tesla will not be utilizing modules and as a substitute builds the whole battery pack because the structural platform of the car, with the battery cells serving to solidifying the platform as one massive unit.
Utilizing its experience in big casting elements, Tesla can join an enormous single-piece rear and entrance underbody to this structural battery pack.
This new design reduces the variety of elements, the overall mass of the battery pack, and due to this fact allows Tesla to enhance effectivity and in the end the vary of its electrical automobiles.
Now at its Gigafest, a kind of nation honest at Gigafactory Berlin, Tesla unveiled the newest model of the structural battery pack.
Right here’s the primary time we get to see the pack with the sing entrance and single rear casting elements:
What’s spectacular is that this comparatively easy platform is answerable for a big a part of the entire car and it consists of simply 3 fundamental elements, a battery pack and two massive casting items.
Tesla additionally confirmed a cutaway of the structural battery pack displaying the 4680 battery cells in it (by way of Paul Kelly):
Tesla additionally confirmed that the added the seat mounting braket immediately onto the battery pack:
Throughout a presentation, they stated that they may be capable of mount the sears immediately on it and decrease the physique round, which goes to drastically simplify the meeting course of.
All these manufacturing enhancements put collectively are anticipated to considerably enhance the fee and effectivity of the Mannequin Y.
On the occasion, Musk stated that Tesla is presently aiming to start out Mannequin Y manufacturing at Gigafactory Berlin subsequent month.
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