The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels
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.
The Cybertruck’s steel is made in “coils that resemble giant rolls of toilet paper,”
All steel is shipped from the stewl mill in coils just like that.
There’s a lot of legitimate things to criticize, why make stupid comparisons like this?
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:
I can’t get over the flatness… those panels surely rattle too? Or do they void-fill the doors and body with something?
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 :)
but there were still subtle curves to those panels to bias them and stop them flapping
Okay, that explains it. Thanks!
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