When a photograph of a naked Tesla Cybertruck physique popped up on-line a number of days in the past many mentioned that its rear was the results of a single-piece casting presumably created within the new 9,000-ton Giga press. Nevertheless, now that Sandy Munro of Munro Reside has had a take a look at the photograph, he says that it’s actually not solid as a single piece and that it was almost definitely assembled from 5 particular person solid items.

Sandy additionally says that Tesla most likely hasn’t arrange its new press manufactured by Italy’s IDRA Group. It was delivered to Tesla final month, however between then and when the photograph surfaced, Sandy says there wouldn’t have been sufficient time for the press to be made operational.

The 5 items had been almost definitely solid within the conventional sand casting approach, however this can almost definitely be modified for the completed manufacturing model, which ought to make the most of the brand new Giga press and have fewer bigger castings.

The physique within the photograph is a prototype, in accordance with Sandy, and it could not even be assembled into an entire automobile. He says it may have been accomplished simply to verify all of the items match collectively accurately, particularly since there look like areas the place aluminum must be welded (or mounted to) chrome steel, a possible supply of issues.

There are apparently a lot of seen welds and this to Sandy strongly means that this physique is a prototype. Tesla is clearly getting ready to place the Cybertruck into manufacturing, however it’s not clear from this photograph how superior growth of the mannequin really is – manufacturing is meant to start out round six months from now on the Giga Texas facility close to Austin.

Tesla has already begun tooling for Cybertruck manufacturing in Texas, the place it’s additionally constructing an on-site battery manufacturing facility to provide sufficient packs wanted to satisfy Cybertruck manufacturing wants. The producer says it plans to start out manufacturing across the center of subsequent 12 months, however it would take till the top of the 12 months or early in 2024 for manufacturing to ramp up sufficiently with a view to begin filling in its 1.6-million pre-orders for the electrical pickup.