Musk just excitedly announced that Tesla's new Factory in Texas is about to open, and recently there have been enthusiastic melon eaters in the factory, took a huge amount of information photos.
The foreign netizen, joe Tegtmeyer, was idle, and he was operating a drone to photograph the Tesla Texas Gigafactory complex, but a Model Y test body that had just been removed from the trailer caught his attention.
As can be seen from aerial photos, the Model Y test vehicle is not equipped with a floor, which appears to be assigned to other undiscovered components. According to this, there is widespread speculation that this means that the test car recently delivered to the Texas factory comes with a structural battery pack.
It is understood that Tesla's structural battery can be called the world's first CTC battery in the true sense, popularly speaking, it is to cancel the module and the whole package, and directly use the body as the upper and lower cover of the battery, so that the body and the battery can be integrated.
Tesla has a unique technology in holding the main key, which can connect the large one-piece rear body and front body bottom to the structural battery pack, this new design reduces the number of parts and the total mass of the battery pack, thereby increasing the range of electric vehicles.
The model equipped with this battery pack, there are two molded parts in the front and rear of the chassis, the battery can be placed in the middle, therefore, this also greatly simplifies the production process and process, can further reduce the production cost, then the price of the vehicle is bound to be reduced.
However, the one-piece cast body is not all advantages, such as high maintenance costs; for example, in China, when buying insurance every year, Tesla owners may be more painful than other car brand owners.