Tesla installs three battery packs in parallel on the Semi production line in a process called battery marriage. The packs use Cybertruck cells in a cubic design, different from the pancake style in Tesla cars, and are currently bolted in by hand with plans to automate as production scales.
So you're going to witness what we call battery marriage.
Okay. You'll likely have seen this before. It's the Tesla Semi, the long-awaited cargo hauling beast from Tesla that marks a new chapter for the company and perhaps for the automotive industry overall. What you will not have seen before is this: the Tesla Semi factory responsible for actually making these vehicles.
This is our long-range truck. Now we're going to fasten the battery pack into the frame. And here we have our 3 battery packs. So they're all essentially the same. They're in parallel. And we're using essentially the same cell out of Cybertruck. But our cars' packs are more like a pancake. Exactly. Versus these are more like a cube. And you get a lot of energy storage in a small space. And it's only doable if you design a vehicle to be electric from the ground up. But you can see now that the frame's coming in and it's gonna get really tight up and close in between the battery packs nested right there into the frame.
And this would all be automated as the factory keeps going?
Yeah, that's correct. So this is a somewhat manual operation right now.
Okay.
So then this is the torque tool that will allow them to very precisely torque down these bolts. Okay.
The goal is to run this massive place as simply and efficiently as possible.
