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I never understood why the Gigafactory is viable with China around. Does this have to do with location of the mines?
by sharun 9y ago
I never understood why the Gigafactory is viable with China around. Does this have to do with location of the mines?
- swsieber 9y agoProbably? Batteries seem relatively dense compared to most products... But there's probably more at play.
- Retric 9y agoLabor is a smaller fraction of the costs to produce batteries. Consider they only have 850 workers, so even if moving to China saved 50k per worker it's not actually that valuable vs much better IP protection.
- azernik 9y agoAnd vs. low shipping costs to Tesla factories and to target markets.