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A Look Inside the Paint Shop of Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai Tesla Shanghai has released a rare video that shows its completely automated paint shop and reveals Tesla’s focus on paint, which has increased since talk about Giga Berlin’s advanced paint shop started.
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esla released a short video which shows the step-by-step
Moreover, in the months following Tesla’s announcement of the
automated painting process that all Made in China Tesla vehicles
Gigafactory in Germany, Elon Musk teased about Giga Berlin’s
go through at the company’s Gigafactory in Shanghai.
advanced paint shop, stating that “Giga Berlin will have world’s most
The clip shows that most of the painting process is automated.
advanced paint shop, with more layers of stunning colours that subtly
The car body undergoes a rotational dip process, through which
change with curvature”.
an anti-corrosive primer is applied by dipping the car body in an
To build Giga Berlin’s paint shop, Tesla partnered with Geico Taikisha
electrically conductive bath.
and it appears that the company plans to retrofit Giga Shanghai with
The topcoat is then applied with fully automated robots that feature
Geico Taikisha machines once the technology has been tested at Giga
rotary atomizers with electrostatic technology.
Berlin.
The paint shop features advanced process technologies, including an exhaust gas centralized combustion system. The paints employed are VOC free. All this ensures that the coating process is highly efficient, energy-saving and environmentally friendly. The footage also reveals some of the different colour options available to Tesla customers, including Tesla China’s Deep Sea Blue, China Red, Pearl White, Cold Light Silver and Pure Black colour options. This video comes after a Tesla app update, which teased new colour options available for cars produced at Giga Berlin, similar to the ones seen in the Tesla China video.
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