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Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix (www.thedrive.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix::Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla's "gigacasting." But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Increase productivity by 20% will reduce price by?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

"Increase productivity by 20% will ~reduce price~ increase profits by?"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Right!?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

There is demand for their cars, how would that change through more efficient manufacturing? Remember demand drives price.

However, withing a few decades probably every mamjfacturer will adopt this technique, which will enable them to ask for less to drives sales. Then all manufacturers will have to reduce prices.