The article mentions that Tesla wants to do batch manufacturing and frames it as somehow bad thing in comparison to JIT used by other car makers. In fact JIT ou

The article mentions that Tesla wants to do batch manufacturing and frames it as somehow bad thing in comparison to JIT used by other car makers. In fact JIT outsources the logistics chaos caused by inconsistencies of planned order betweeen different production steps to component manufacturers which does not make much sense with vertical integration. Commonly used metric for out-of-orderness (ie. number of times when next serial number is smaller than previous one) usualy works out to single digit percents, which looks good on paper but in actual logistics reality means that order of components picked from warehouse is essentialy random (measured by edit distance between stored and picked order) and automating that is more expensive than doing manual picking.