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> For various reasons, the plant shut down in 2010. It is now a Tesla plant. It probably wasn't intended that way, but that's such a beautiful irony. Similar t
by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> For various reasons, the plant shut down in 2010. It is now a Tesla plant.
It probably wasn't intended that way, but that's such a beautiful irony. Similar to the dark humor of writing of Catch 22 and other books.
Describe all the technological and managerial achievements and progresses of the system that is supposedly so much better than the one mentioned before (Tesla), and how it documentedly better, and produces so many good results and tolerating so many struggles, only to find out that it still was replaced by none other than Tesla. I guess they bet on the things that mattered even more.
- philwelch 6y agoExcept for Toyota having since become the world’s leading manufacturer of automobiles, sure.
- tempestn 6y agoAlthough Tesla did recently pass them to become the largest car company in the world by market cap.
- sneak 6y agoI don't think that market cap, an entirely fictional number (constructed by multiplying two non-fictional numbers), is a reasonable or sufficient measure of "largest $X company". TSLA is doing well, but that has little or nothing to do with Tesla the auto manufacturer, and it certainly doesn't dictate their "size".
- beamatronic 6y agoToyota/Lexus fan here. They make the worlds finest previous-generation automobiles. It kills me how close they get to the mark (ie new 2021 hybrid Sienna WITHOUT plug-in) and just don’t hit it.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoAffordable, reliable, bleeding edge. Pick two.