Volvo has plans of investing $1.1 billion to prepare its largest and oldest car plant for the EV era. The transformation will include switching to "megacasting" for large aluminum body parts, a technique Tesla is already using.
What is Megacasting? Currently, Volvo builds their car bodies through a series of stamping and welding processes, which takes 75% longer than the one-shot injection process that transforms an amount of aluminum into a car body in need of only minor tweaks.
The change would reduce the number of welding robots needed to produce a car with a single megacasting producing 2 pieces of aluminum that replace 40 previously individually stamped and welded parts.
Telling it like it is — One step closer to buying a new car being exactly like going to Bulid-a-Bear!