Tesla has said its new manufacturing paradigm will result in a 40% reduction in manufacturing footprint. This is due to a range of new manufacturing techniques such as Tesla’s single-body castings which enable it to make the “body-in-white” with three huge single-piece castings replacing what normally requires hundreds of individual parts to be welded together with an army of robots. It’s estimated that the revolutionary single-body castings, which Tesla produces using the world’s largest die-ca