When a photograph of a naked Tesla Cybertruck physique popped up on-line a couple of days in the past many stated 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 Dwell has had a take a look at the picture, he says that it’s actually not solid as a single piece and that it was most probably 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 picture surfaced, Sandy says there wouldn’t have been sufficient time for the press to be made operational.

The 5 items have been most probably solid within the conventional sand casting method, however this can most probably be modified for the completed manufacturing model, which ought to benefit from the brand new Giga press and have fewer bigger castings.

The physique within the picture is a prototype, in line with Sandy, and it could not even be assembled into a whole automobile. He says it may have been accomplished simply to ensure all of the items match collectively appropriately, particularly since there seem like areas the place aluminum should be welded (or mounted to) stainless-steel, a possible supply of issues.

There are apparently plenty of seen welds and this to Sandy strongly means that this physique is a prototype. Tesla is clearly making ready to place the Cybertruck into manufacturing, however it’s not clear from this picture how superior growth of the mannequin truly 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 is going to 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.