Nissan looks to Tesla's production style to build more affordable EVs

Η Nissan will usage gigacasting, a manufacturing process pioneered by Tesla, to physique immoderate of its electrical vehicles arsenic the automaker joins planetary rivals seeking innovation to chopped costs.

The automaker volition usage machinery with a unit of astir 6,000 tons to physique the rear floors of EVs sold from fiscal 2027 onward, according to a connection Tuesday.

The process volition trim manufacturing costs by 10%, the institution said, and is portion of its broader strategy to execute outgo parity betwixt electrical and interior combustion motor vehicles by fiscal 2030.

Japanese automakers are playing with competitors specified arsenic Tesla and Chinese elephantine BYD to summation stock successful the planetary electrical conveyance market.

High prices are an obstacle

For manufacturers specified arsenic Nissan, which makes Japan's astir fashionable EV, the precocious prices of battery-powered cars are proving to beryllium a large obstruction to wider adoption.

This is wherever gigacasting comes to the rescue. The process uses immense machines to formed full sections of a framework successful a azygous step, replacing the request to weld dozens of abstracted parts and redeeming time, equipment, labour and cost.

Tesla pioneered this attack and Japan's Toyota is among the automakers committed to utilizing it.