Battery knowledge · Manufacturing
Gigacasting
Casting a large vehicle structure, such as a whole front or rear underbody, in one piece on an aluminium high-pressure die-casting machine with a locking force of 6,000 tonnes or more. It replaces dozens of stamped and welded parts; in some vehicles a structural battery pack bolts in between the front and rear castings to form the floor.
- Also called
- giga casting, megacasting, Giga Press
Example
Manufacturing: an example situation
An electrode can meet coating mass targets but fail adhesion or moisture checks later.
Read Gigacasting alongside Cell-to-chassis in this context. Integrating the cells into the vehicle floor itself, so the battery enclosure is the chassis and the cells help carry its loads. It saves mass and height but binds the battery to the car for life.
Use in Lemonergy
Place operations and quality checks in process order.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Current and future lithium-ion battery manufacturing
Yangtao Liu, Ruihan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yan Wang · iScience · 2021
Topic background · Electrode preparation, cell assembly, formation and manufacturing trade-offs.