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.

  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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    11 months ago

    Flat panels suck for resistance to bending, the compound curves and folds pressed into most car panels give them more rigidity

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        11 months ago

        What’s funny to me is how fast the Korean car companies learned “metal bending.” They went from generic easy shapes with little forming to adding in creases all over the damn car just to prove they could do it and replicate it, and they did that in the span of a couple decades at the most.