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Charged EVs | Volvo orders two Tesla-style Giga Presses for Slovakia EV plant
Nov
Tesla pioneered megacasting, a method that makes use of big casting machines to make automobile our bodies with just some large solid elements (a Matchbox automobile is claimed to have supplied the inspiration), and different automakers shortly took discover. In 2021, the LK Group reported that it will provide big casting presses to several Chinese companies. In October of this 12 months, Reuters reported that Italian agency Idra, which provides Giga Presses to Tesla, had delivered machines to Ford and Hyundai.
Now Idra tells us that Volvo Vehicles has ordered two 9,000-tonne Giga Presses (every the scale of a small home) for its new automobile plant in Kosice, Slovakia. Volvo’s Kosice plant is slated to go surfing in 2026 with an annual capability of 250,000 EVs.
Volvo Vehicles has but to verify which fashions it would construct in Slovakia, however we do know that the plant will use the brand new Scalable Product Structure 2, an EV-specific platform. The Volvo electrical XC90 and Polestar 3 will use the SPA2 platform, so Electrive surmises that European manufacturing of those two fashions shall be in Slovakia.
