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BMW (my closest car factory) is allowing a certain degree of home office for executives and production controlling employees. Of course they have teams on site
by ng55QPSK 4y ago
BMW (my closest car factory) is allowing a certain degree of home office for executives and production controlling employees. Of course they have teams on site to react fast, but the next layer of decisions is anyway a few hundred meters away on the end of an internet connection.
- manquer 4y agoBMW is a more mature organization with relatively slow or even unchanging processes. Tesla on the other hand is rapidly scaling up and constantly changing its assembly line and was doing work out of actual tents until recently (probably now as well). What works for BMW is unlikely to work for Tesla . Even if Tesla was stable their manufacturing processes and tech DNA are very different from BMW or other major car makers, more in-house vertical integration and electric driver train vs traditional ecosystem and conventional combustion engine.
- ng55QPSK 4y agoAs far as i understand, BWM is way more agile then Tesla is - they are planning (and executing) to be able to build any car and configuration on any production line - ICE / e-drive / hybrid. This has not been visible in Tesla's planning for the Berlin factory.
- imgabe 4y agoTesla doesn't make ICE or hybrid cars so why would they configure their factory for that?
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- _ea1k 4y agoI think he means more like separate models. Things like being able to easily swap a line from 3 to Y and vice versa. AFAIK, Tesla does do that at plants that produce both. There have been no announcements of other models for Berlin, but it'd be shocking if it stays only producing Y. There will b similar flexibility when that changes, possibly for new models.