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Much of the auto industry is based on buying components like these from one of small group of suppliers. Many are German or Japanese. It has the advantage of ma
by TorKlingberg 10y ago
Much of the auto industry is based on buying components like these from one of small group of suppliers. Many are German or Japanese. It has the advantage of making it easier for new comers like Tesla: They can just buy things like wipers from the same companies as everyone else, and focus their engineering efforts on the unique parts.
- ec109685 10y agoThis article talks about how critical the auto suppliers was to Tesla's formation: http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-1... Though, given Tesla is still one of the only new auto makers around, it still is imensly hard to compete against the established companies.
- TorKlingberg 10y agoVery interesting article about the early years of Tesla, but there's a weird jump at the end from the Roadster just shipping, to announcing the obscure D-version of Model S.