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The post you replied to said Mach-E, not F-150. And assembly is not manufacturing. The sentence you quoted is making careful use of weasel words by zeroing in
by natch 5y ago
The post you replied to said Mach-E, not F-150.
And assembly is not manufacturing. The sentence you quoted is making careful use of weasel words by zeroing in on assembly.
Tesla brings in rolls of aluminum and steel (and other things) and puts out cars. Even the seats are manufactured in the same town. The motors are wound from scratch on site. Casting and stamping happens on site as well. Like you, I don’t know the full picture on externally sourced parts, but there are a lot fewer parts, and I do know weasel words when I see them.
- runako 5y agoI stand corrected on the Mach-E. But automakers all necessarily focus on assembly because at a minimum the electronics are imported. It would be a good idea to know fractions of parts that were sourced domestically, but an effort to do this in the 80s failed because it's too easy to game and ultimately consumers do not really care.