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Increasing production is a problem that's easy to fix with time and money. Creating demand and a superior product is much harder to do.
by matt_wulfeck 11y ago
Increasing production is a problem that's easy to fix with time and money. Creating demand and a superior product is much harder to do.
- rjdagost 11y agoHave you ever been involved with the production of a mass market product? Scaling up production while making a profit and maintaining high quality is not something that gets solved easily. It remains to be seen if Tesla can make the difficult transition from being a trendy boutique manufacturer to a mass market juggernaut.
- csours 11y agoIf they do an AMAZING[1] job of utilizing their current factory, they can make 500k car/yr. If/when they have to stand up another assembly plant, that will be on the order of $2-5 billion and 2-5 years. I would imagine that at some point they will enter a joint venture with another OEM rather than expand into another assembly site. 1. 24hr x 365 day @ 1 veh per minute would be 525,949 vehicles per year. Disclaimer: I work for a Tesla competitor, any opinions are solely my own.