Tesla applied for a patent for a new modular wiring harness: it will contribute to the mass production of Model Y in the future.

According to foreign media reports, Musk has always believed that the greatest potential of manufacturing comes from manufacturing machines with manufacturing capabilities. To this end, he has been looking for ways to achieve the goal of EV mass production at least at walking speed. To this end, Tesla applied for a patent for a new type of wire that is more easily controlled by robots last year.

Recently, the company applied for a patent-a brand-new wiring framework will help replace humans with robots in the manufacturing process.

It is reported that Tesla has shortened the wire harness length of its car from 3 km of Model S to 1.5 km of Model 3, and its ultimate goal is to shorten the length to 100 m when Model Y is mass-produced.

Because this patent uses a harder wiring harness system, it is easier to be manipulated by robots.

In this new cabling architecture, in certain embodiments, subsystems will be encapsulated and defined as one or more program components. In addition to reducing the number and length of wiring required, creating these subassemblies and connecting them to the backbone of the wiring architecture will also reduce the assembly time of the final assembly, which is ideal for improving the productivity in the automobile manufacturing process.

It is reported that this technology is expected to be applied for the first time in the 2020 compact SUV Model Y launched by Tesla in the future.