The stainless-steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels
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The Cybertruck's steel is made in "coils that resemble giant rolls of toilet paper," a report says.

The stainless steel body of Tesla’s Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels::The Cybertruck’s steel is made in “coils that resemble giant rolls of toilet paper,” WSJ reported.

  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    Other manufacturers of all manner of stainless products seem to have figured out a solution to the problem.

    Two design choices together probably make the problem multiplicatively worse:

    1. Flat panels are not anywhere as stiff as curved panels.
    2. Mechanical parameters of the stainless alloy they’re using (eg it might retain the coiled shape more than some other plain steel alloys).

    I can’t get over the flatness… those panels surely rattle too? Or do they void-fill the doors and body with something?

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Flat panels are not anywhere as stiff as curved panels

      Same for windows. So much for “thermonuclear explosion-proof glass”, Elon.

      Also, the shape has horrible aerodynamics. If it had a combustion engine, they couldn’t sell it in large parts of the world due to fuel efficiency.

      • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        How old?

        Early 1900’s: Yes. Metal panels had the same problem, timber panels did not (their thickness stops them from flapping).

        Late 1900’s: I don’t think anyone used flat? There were definitely designs intended to look flat (esp 80’s and early 90’s), but there were still subtle curves to those panels to bias them and stop them flapping, as far as I recall.

        Happy to be proven wrong :)