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Just two weeks ago, I've been in talks with a co who is in the process of building a car factory, and possibly a second one in a few years. And not of a OEM ki

Just two weeks ago, I've been in talks with a co who is in the process of building a car factory, and possibly a second one in a few years. And not of a OEM kit assembly type, but a proper on with body shop, and everything. Price? A bit more than $110M

Closi 5y ago
Well clearly there is a large variety in size and scope, which is why I tried to say a “large” car plant (by which I meant reasonable complexity and manufacturing volume). Clearly you can open a very small car factory for $1 million with a body shop if you want to.
mediaman 5y ago
There is no way you're building anything but a very small car factory for $110m. Maybe this involves a long of hand-work for low volume niche vehicles? Specialty government vehicles? Normal car factories run $500m for something smallish to $4bn for a facility with more volume.
- baybal2 5y ago
  It's in top 100 electronics companies globally, aiming to join top 20 this decade, and you can easily do. Yes, the panelling lines is half the cost, and assembly would be mostly manual for the beginning.
  - ivalm 5y ago
    top 100 electronics company in car space means it is extremely small/doesn't produce meaningful amount of cars.
  - ejanus 5y ago
    Which type of parts do they make within their factory?
    - baybal2 5y ago
      Body, and panels. Suspension parts like tie-rods should be coming in short order.
      - ejanus 5y ago
        Body parts? That's playing around with press machines. Panels are so basic. Suspensions, coiling steel. Could you call any of the above serious manufacturing?
olyjohn 5y ago
I don't get what this means? What's an "OEM kit assembly type" car factory? And what do you mean a body shop? Do you mean like a fabrication facility where they form body panels, and then do paint after assembly? Body shops are where they do repairs for collision and dents after a car is already completed. A domestic factory might have one to fix flaws in the paint and body incurred during manufacturing... Cars imported from overseas get bodywork done at the port, generally due to shipping damage. (Yes your brand new car may have already been repaired.) It's not really the big part of building a car at all though. I feel like you might be missing something, or misunderstanding something. Or maybe it's just me.
- baybal2 5y ago
  > I don't get what this means? What's an "OEM kit assembly type" car factory? A type of a factory that does assembly only from parts, without making parts themselves > And what do you mean a body shop? Do you mean like a fabrication facility where they form body panels, and then do paint after assembly? I mean a shop where they manufacture a car body, and its parts.

Closi 5y ago

Well clearly there is a large variety in size and scope, which is why I tried to say a “large” car plant (by which I meant reasonable complexity and manufacturing volume). Clearly you can open a very small car factory for $1 million with a body shop if you want to.

mediaman 5y ago

There is no way you're building anything but a very small car factory for $110m. Maybe this involves a long of hand-work for low volume niche vehicles? Specialty government vehicles? Normal car factories run $500m for something smallish to $4bn for a facility with more volume.

baybal2 5y ago
It's in top 100 electronics companies globally, aiming to join top 20 this decade, and you can easily do. Yes, the panelling lines is half the cost, and assembly would be mostly manual for the beginning.
- ivalm 5y ago
  top 100 electronics company in car space means it is extremely small/doesn't produce meaningful amount of cars.
- ejanus 5y ago
  Which type of parts do they make within their factory?
  - baybal2 5y ago
    Body, and panels. Suspension parts like tie-rods should be coming in short order.
    - ejanus 5y ago
      Body parts? That's playing around with press machines. Panels are so basic. Suspensions, coiling steel. Could you call any of the above serious manufacturing?

olyjohn 5y ago

I don't get what this means? What's an "OEM kit assembly type" car factory? And what do you mean a body shop? Do you mean like a fabrication facility where they form body panels, and then do paint after assembly? Body shops are where they do repairs for collision and dents after a car is already completed. A domestic factory might have one to fix flaws in the paint and body incurred during manufacturing... Cars imported from overseas get bodywork done at the port, generally due to shipping damage. (Yes your brand new car may have already been repaired.) It's not really the big part of building a car at all though. I feel like you might be missing something, or misunderstanding something. Or maybe it's just me.

baybal2 5y ago
> I don't get what this means? What's an "OEM kit assembly type" car factory? A type of a factory that does assembly only from parts, without making parts themselves > And what do you mean a body shop? Do you mean like a fabrication facility where they form body panels, and then do paint after assembly? I mean a shop where they manufacture a car body, and its parts.