The main difference is that in a press you have a sheet of metal that you shape in some way and in a casting machine you get molten metal in which you apply force to generate a shape.
Right, I understand the difference between casting and pressing. But the article frequently says "Giga Press" instead of "Giga Cast," I think they're actually referring to pressing machines and it's just not a very well researched article. There is nothing that mentions molten metal being used, and it regularly references previous pressing machines which did not take in molten metal.
Again, I'm happy to be wrong here, but I'm not seeing the evidence of this being a casting machine. And I'm seeing a lot of circumstantial evidence that is indeed a press.
This is just bad naming by the company (and or Tesla). This is 100% sure a molten aluminum die casting machine.
This company already makes such machines for Tesla and this is the newest one.
You can find videos of machines like that being assembled right now in Berlin and Austin. And you can find videos of it working in Fremont and Shanghai.
It's clearly performing a casting process, just watch one of the videos.
Maybe they're calling it a press because the molten metal is being rammed into the mold under pressure vs. gravity. I agree that there's poor naming at play here muddying the waters.
