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minus-squaremagic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·edit-22 days agoYeah I’m not shocked the major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue. Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.
minus-squareBanMe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoOh those Honda engineers would have laughed and laughed. “Aluminum chassis and plastic body support?!” I can hear them say through hysterics.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 day agoYeah, the style at the time was “rust chassis and paint is body support” tbh Aluminum chassis is the one thing I ain’t gonna give Tesla any shit about.
Yeah I’m not shocked the major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.
Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.
Oh those Honda engineers would have laughed and laughed. “Aluminum chassis and plastic body support?!” I can hear them say through hysterics.
Yeah, the style at the time was “rust chassis and paint is body support” tbh
Aluminum chassis is the one thing I ain’t gonna give Tesla any shit about.