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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] 52 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As has been pointed out MANY times on the current CAST items if you have an accident large enough to go through the replaceable parts the crash bars and it DOES damage the cast it is a write off anyway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I thought this was already an issue with unibody designs. Once the internal structure is damaged, it's a write-off either way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I was wondering why this wouldn't make insurance unaffordable and the car unsellable, if it were a real issue, and that answers it - thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These days repairs on regular cars are so cost prohibitive, that if the accident is severe enough to deploy airbags it's a write off.

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

Exactly, it isn’t unusual