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Tesla Cybercab skips paint shop and colors panels during molding

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The Tesla Cybercab does not go through a traditional paint line. During a factory walkthrough at Giga Texas with Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy, Tesla explained that the aluminum alloys in the front and rear castings do not oxidize, while only the side modules, built around hot-stamped boron-steel door rings, receive an anti-corrosion dip coat. Exterior color is integrated into the panels: it is mixed into polyurethane resin at the mix head during reaction injection molding (RIM), so each panel leaves the mold already colored with a Class-A surface.…

🔎 Why it matters: The Cybercab drops the paint line, which Moravy says costs hundreds of millions of dollars and takes a million man-hours to build. Color moves into the RIM molding of the body panels.
📈 Upside: It cuts floor space per vehicle by about 50% and shortens the coloring cycle from hours to minutes.
📉 Risk: The cost and space savings are figures from Moravy during a factory walkthrough, and the article does not verify them with independent data.
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