In a bid to extend its lead, Tesla is closing in on an innovation that woThe company pioneered the use of huge presses with 6,000 to 9,000 tons of clamping pressure to mold the front and rear structures of its Model Y in a “gigacasting” process that slashed production costs and left rivals scrambling to catch up.uld allow it to die cast nearly all the complex underbody of an EV in one piece, rather than about 400 parts in a conventional car. While Tesla has said its unboxed model involves producing large sub-assemblies of a car at the same time and then snapping them together, the size and make-up of the modular blocks is still the subject of speculation. Is Tesla Reinventing car making ?