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Elon has said that the key Tesla technology is the factories. The battery factory and the car factory that they are constantly evolving. That's much harder to
by narrator 7y ago
Elon has said that the key Tesla technology is the factories. The battery factory and the car factory that they are constantly evolving. That's much harder to replicate in China, mainly because those companies can operate very inefficiently thanks to State sponsorship.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/30/automating-intelligently-is-teslas-manufacturing-advantage/ https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/30/automating-intelligentl...
- Faark 7y agoTesla doesn't seem to keep engineering of new factory processes out of china [0]. The batteries for GF3 seem to be bought from LG Chem [1]. So yeah, I don't see Tesla being that worried about their IP or something like that. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d8un7f/tesla_is_building_a_major_engineering_team_in/ https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d8un7f/tesla_i... [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d7i0vk/lg_chem_has_begun_to_mass_produce_batteries_for/ https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d7i0vk/lg_chem...