The problem was they are trying to shift to large-scale car manufacturing, and car manufacturing is hard. They basically have a tent erected in the Nevada dese

The problem was they are trying to shift to large-scale car manufacturing, and car manufacturing is hard. They basically have a tent erected in the Nevada desert, next to their stalled plant, where they are hand-assembling cars now, which is causing all kinds of quality issues [1]. Honestly, the buyout from VW would have solved this issue because VW knows how to build cars at scale [2]. The fact they shot this down is exactly that - hubris - and now they're burning through the last of their cash reserves on their way to bankruptcy. [1] https://jalopnik.com/bumper-falls-off-brand-new-tesla-model-3-after-30-minut-1828306917 https://jalopnik.com/bumper-falls-off-brand-new-tesla-model-... [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-bravado-private-doubts-how-elon-musks-tesla-plan-unraveled-1535326249 https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-bravado-private-doubts-h...