Idra broke the information on social media and introduced that Volvo Automobiles had ordered two 9,000-tonne Giga presses for its new automobile plant in Kosice, Slovakia. Reportedly, this will probably be a pure electrical automobile plant with a focused annual capability of 250,000 electrical automobiles per 12 months as soon as it goes reside in 2026.
Gigapresses have develop into common amongst carmakers since Tesla launched the identical machines to make giant single items of car underbodies and scale back the work of even robots. Additionally, in China, casting machines are getting used.
Geely-owned Volvo Automobiles will not be the one firm trying into it for his or her operations in Europe and the USA. In keeping with a report by Reuters, Ford and Hyundai have additionally reached for Idra’s Giga presses. Reporters noticed a ‘gigapress 6,100’, which produces a clamping power of over 6,000 tons, with the Ford brand imprinted, being examined in Idra’s plant in Travalgiato, close to Brescia, northern Italy, throughout an business occasion organised by the corporate this week.
One other 9,000 mannequin with no brand was additionally examined on the similar occasion. A supply near the matter advised Reuters it will be shipped to the Hyundai group, including that each Hyundai and Ford would initially use these just for R&D functions.
At Tesla, the strongest gigapress will assist kind the Cybertruck. The corporate in any other case makes use of the 6,000-ton model to press components of the Mannequin Y physique.
Volvo Automobiles has but to verify fashions to be inbuilt Slovakia. What is evident is that the plant will manufacture autos on the superior Scalable Product Structure 2, a purely electrical platform, in distinction to the SPA used since 2014.
The all-electric Volvo XC90 and Polestar 3 will use the SPA2 platform, and it’s possible that European manufacturing of those two fashions will probably be in Slovakia. If the XC90 successor and the Polestar 3 are produced solely within the USA for the world markets, Slovakia might, for instance, construct the electrical successor to Volvo’s best-selling XC60.
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