This Is How Tesla Is Building Car Every 30 Seconds While this may sound unbelievable, Tesla produces a new car every 30 seconds at their Giga Shanghai facility. But how are they able to churn out new cars so quickly? Let’s see it in today’s video. Although the thirty-second mark is achieved by Giga Shanghai, the process of making Teslas is more or less the same everywhere. So, to give you an idea of production, let’s explore how a Model Y is made at the Gigafactory in Texas. The first step in this process will be making the body, which is made up of panels. Tesla will use a process called stamping to do this. The shape of the part you want to make is held by the two halves of a D-shaped mold. Then, you put a metal sheet, usually aluminum, between the two halves. The machine presses down on the metal sheet to make the needed shape. After that, the next step will be to put it all together. The big robot arms and conveyor belts start to help out at this point. They weld all those stamped pieces together to start making the skeleton of the model Y body. As the skeletons move from one robot to the next down the line, each one adds a new piece to the puzzle. Once it's done, the facility starts putting on the body parts like the fenders, doors, hood, and trunk. Robots can't just stick these on. So there will be people putting all of this body work together and bolting it down. Then the assembled body goes to the paint shop, where the primer is sprayed on it, and it is sanded down until it is flat. Then the car goes through long spraying, dipping, and drying process. After the paint has dried, buffed, and polished, the body is sent to have all of the interior panels installed, the electronics wired up, and the glass put in. Now, all of that will be going on simultaneously as a separate process to make the model undercarriage and engine. This will start with a structural battery pack for this which holds all of the 46,80 battery cells and the cooling and electrical architecture. Then, the front and back Giga castings are bolted onto that battery pack, and the electric motors are put into place. One in the front and one in the back, each linked to the axles for all four wheels through a gearbox. All of the suspension is built into the castings, and the brakes and wheels are added to make a big rolling structure. Then, the workers will put the carpeted floor on top of the battery pack, attach the center console and interior trim, and bolt down all four seats right on top of the structural battery pack. The last big step will be to put the finished body right on top of the assembled frame and powertrain. There are bolts all around the edges of the structural pack and castings that hold the two together. From there, a team of people in charge of final quality control gives model Y its final touches.