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Tell that to Detroit.
by tracker1 3y ago
Tell that to Detroit.
- dr-detroit 3y ago[dead]
- bryanlarsen 3y agoAFAICT that's mostly about not building new factories in the same place as old/obsolete factories.
- CydeWeys 3y agoThat's my take on it too. Companies aren't abandoning relatively new factories that are still close to cutting edge. What they are abandoning are obsolete ones that they already got a lot of use out of that would require massive capital investment to modernize.
- tracker1 3y agoThese are automotive factories... I'm not sure that the uplift would take that much compared to silicon wafer fabs. I mean newer machinery/robots, but the infrastructure shouldn't need to change all that much, should it?
- bryanlarsen 3y agoA large part of the reason for the Tesla shoddy quality reputation is that their main factory is 40 years old. Nobody else is building cars in a factory with a 40 year old paint shop. Teslas coming out of the new factories in China, Texas & Germany appear to have substantially higher quality.
- CydeWeys 3y agoInterestingly, the largest abandoned factory in the world, the Packard Auto Plant in Detroit, was opened in 1903 and shut down in 1958, long before Detroit's fortunes actually turned. And the factory was in use for five and a half decades, hardly a failure.
- organsnyder 3y agoThere are many reasons automakers abandoned factories in Michigan—union-busting, changing demand, etc. AFAIK no factory that was abandoned had just lost subsidies, and they were all quite old.