According to Nikkei.
com, Toyota Motor will install a giant integrated gigcasting equipment at a factory in Japan as soon as this year, aiming to reduce the production costs of electric vehicles.
In September last year, foreign media reported that Toyota Motor demonstrated its new gigcasting prototype equipment-which can manufacture one-third of the body in about three minutes.
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Photo source: Toyota, Nikkei’s latest report said that Toyota Motor will deploy integrated die-casting equipment at a production center in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, which will become one of the largest casting equipment in Japan and can withstand 9000 tons of clamping pressure.
It is reported that the integrated die-casting equipment that Toyota is about to deploy at the Aichi factory is manufactured by Japanese company Ube Machinery.
The equipment is 10 meters wide, 22 meters long, and about 7 meters high.
It covers an area about the size of a tennis court.
According to Toyota’s plan, it will initially use integrated die-casting to produce Lexus’s next-generation electric vehicle LF-ZC, which will be launched in 2026.
It is reported that Toyota Motor will use integrated die-casting equipment to prototype electric vehicle parts rather than mass production.
Toyota will assess whether the technology will reduce the number of parts, process and make electric vehicles lighter.
, In addition to Toyota, Honda Motor has used a 6000-ton integrated die-casting machine at a R & D center in Tochigi prefecture to prepare for mass production.
Nissan also said that starting from fiscal year 2027, it will use integrated die-casting technology to produce electric vehicles, which can reduce manufacturing costs by 10% and reduce component weight by 20%.
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