Wouldn't a crash bad enough to damage a unibody total most cars anyway?
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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Basically. This ship has sailed. They’ve been stamping and welding and gluing cars together for decades.
Non story written by authors ignorant of engineering or automotive history.
Thought so. Hell, just setting off the airbags will total most cars these days.
"Car companies make their money from selling new cars, not keeping old ones on the road. If cast bodies serve that end better than those stitched together, it'd be no surprise to see them become the industry standard."
parts and repairs make a ton for car companies, bodywork however does not.
Ford has been making more and more of their trucks and SUVs from aluminum.
Makes sense. Automanufacturers lose a lot of money making EVs, anything to cut that cost down is what the manufacturer is going to do. Sadly that comes at the cost of vastly inflated repair costs.
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The article is pretty hypothetical …. Tesla has been doing this for long enough that it seems like we ought to know the answer