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So an entire country of 1.3B people, with 8 factories under construction and a dozen or so more announced are going to outproduce one US factory. Okay, why is t
by djrogers 9y ago
So an entire country of 1.3B people, with 8 factories under construction and a dozen or so more announced are going to outproduce one US factory. Okay, why is that news?
Seriously Bloomberg - this is what Elon has been saying publicly since day 1, the entire Tesla vision was built on batteries getting cheaper and more available.
The Gigfactory is important to Tesla not merely because of it's scale, but for the advantages of vertical integration for QC, capacity planning, supply chain stability, etc. The same reason auto manufacturers had their own steel plants back in the early days.
- JustAnotherPat 9y agoBecause that one factory pretty much represents all the battery production outside of China.
- refulgentis 9y agoThe article discusses how China is building 4 gigafactories worth of capacity by 2020. It's unclear what your tone signifies, muddying your message. It's a couple commonly known truths about Tesla, with a tone of "take THAT Bloomberg!"
- djrogers 9y agoMy point is the article doesn’t make much sense - comparing a country’s output of anything to a single factory is of little to no point. The entire article is fluff produced so Bloomberg could have a snazzy sounding headline: “China Is About to Bury Elon Musk in Batteries” The fact hat the headline on HN was changed to be less clickbaity instead of matching the original pretty much says it all...