FRANKFURT/DETROIT -- Robots are not efficient enough for Tesla Inc.'s new car factory in Germany, which plans to replace hundreds of them with giant aluminum casting machines to build simpler chassis ...

What if one machine could replace 600 robots and build a car in seconds? Tesla’s revolutionary Giga Press is doing exactly that. Discover how Elon Musk turned a Hot Wheels toy idea into the world’s ...

The automotive industry has high hopes for the potential of large-scale casting, or megacasting technology. But the adoption of high-pressure die castings to replace assemblages of stamped parts ...

Filed under the name "multi-directional unibody casting machine," the first patent describes a body casting method that, in theory, could produce a unibody vehicle frame using a single machine.

Carmakers have been pursuing more advanced production methods as automotive electrification continues. Chinese EV brand Neta announced that it will start developing a die-casting machine of over ...

Tesla's Gigapress supplier IDRA shared the picture of a smaller die-casting machine that is specialized in producing electric motor rotors. The contraption was painted in the same colors as the ...

After the presentation of the Model 3, it seems the Model Y did not get that much love from the audience. But it surely got it from Tesla. The compact SUV may be the first Tesla product to have not ...

Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...