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Old 06-05-2019, 04:50 PM   #102 (permalink)
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I remember watching a video where someone was sitting inside a Tesla without doors and said "They use bolts here, a weld here," and pointed to a third manner of fastening.

Don't they use a large number of small parts instead of designing a small number of large parts? I would think that after a while they would figure out how to merge frame pieces and save materials and weight, but have they?
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