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Tesla Model Y goes big on aluminum castings with help from Italy’s IDRA Group ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Stainless steel for Cybertruck Tata Steel innovations Mixed-materials design tools June 2020 autoengineering.sae.org CONTENTS FEATURES REGULARS 12 Lightweight Metals Special 2 Editorial: Impressions of a rocket launch 12 Tesla casts a new strategy for light- 4 SAE Standards News weight structures COVER STORY The EV maker boldly invests in the world’s largest aluminum die- 5 Supplier Eye casting machine to manufacture entire rear underbody structures. 6 What We’re Driving 16 Steel the Real Deal MATERIALS 7 Technology Report Steel’s infinite recyclability will help it remain the auto industry’s 7 Can CHAdeMO 3.0 standardize global EV material of choice, insists Tata Steel Europe’s CCO. quick-charging? | ELECTRIFICATION 8 Cummins and Tula test ‘dynamic’ cylinder 19 Tesla’s Cybertruck is audaciously deactivation for diesels | PROPULSION STAINLESS STEEL | MATERIALS austenitic 10 Customization drives new Porsche paint A proprietary 301-series stainless steel gives Tesla’s first pickup process | MANUFACTURING truck unique sales attributes while saving tooling cost. 22 Product Briefs 20 Lightweight design beyond CAD Spotlight: Adhesives & Electronics COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN 26 Companies Mentioned, Ad Index New computational tools enable an integrated data-fusion approach to complex, mixed-materials engineering. An expert 28 Q&A from nTopology explains. Paul Platte discusses Covestro’s new polycarbonate solutions ON THE COVER Tesla is moving to a single, large aluminum casting for the rear structural underbody of its Model Y high-volume sedan as well as Follow us on social media future versions of Model 3. Enabling this new ‘megacasting’ is the world’s largest high-pressure die casting machine supplied by Italy-based IDRA Group, whose OL5500CS is shown. Tesla will eventually have two of these machines at its Fremont plant, plus one in Berlin and one in Shanghai. (Tesla and IDRA Group images) @SAEAutoMag @saeaei SAE Magazines Automotive Engineering®, June 2020, Volume 7, Number 5. Automotive Engineering (ISSN 2331-7639) is published in January/February, March, April, May, June, July/August, 16 September, October, November/December by Tech Briefs Media Group, an SAE International Company ®, 261 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1901, New York, NY 10016 and printed in Mechanicsburg, PA. 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