Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens homing pigeon, Mr. Aviation, West window for the delivery of clues about the past! CTOnews.com, July 4, according to Nikkei Chinese website, Toyota Vice President Yuki Nakamura and others held a help meeting with the theme of "the Competitiveness of Electric vehicles" on July 4 and were interviewed by the media.

Takuro Kato, president of Toyota's pure electric vehicle division BEV Factory, told reporters that "it is planned to adopt integrated die-casting technology on the new generation of pure electric vehicles in 2026. (this will reduce) parts and processes, and make effective use of [factory] land." Takuro Kato also pointed out that the technology will also be applied to models other than pure electric vehicles.

▲ Touyuan Toyota CTOnews.com noted that companies such as Tesla have already used integrated die-casting (Gigacast) technology on their electric vehicles. The technology uses a super-large die-casting machine to highly integrate the previously separate and scattered parts, and die-casting is formed into several large aluminum castings at a time, thus replacing the way of stamping and then welding or riveting of multiple parts. greatly reduce the number of parts and production processes.

In addition, the technology is expected to significantly reduce the cost of making electric cars. Toyota will improve the cost competitiveness of pure electric vehicles through integrated die-casting technology, so as to achieve the goal of expanding sales.

Toyota's goal is to reduce the number of production processes and investment in production equipment to half of those in the past. Nikkei Chinese website pointed out that integrated die-casting technology is expected to play a core role.

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