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> Usually, when people say it's the all-new blah-blah-blah, whatever car, that's bullshit. 40 percent of that car, if not 60 percent of that car, if coming from
by srik 14y ago
> Usually, when people say it's the all-new blah-blah-blah, whatever car, that's bullshit. 40 percent of that car, if not 60 percent of that car, if coming from some parts bin. In our case, two percent is coming from the parts bin.
I was definitely not aware of this practice. Recycling material is one thing, but reusing parts is something customerss need to know about, especially if it's about 40-60 % like Musk claims.
- skrebbel 14y agoI agree. Reusing well-working and trusted components is a horrible engineering practice and customers should be notified of this. In other news, I told my boss that I'm going to be pushing native code in a hex editor until my assembler is done.
- mkramlich 14y agoI'm pretty sure he didn't mean recycling previously owned/installed/used/worn parts. I think he meant using previously designed parts --- parts that are components because they have been used in other models before. In other words he's saying most of the parts in this Tesla are debutting with this model, for the first time, anyway. So there's going to be teething issues. R&D rather than pure heads-down production.
- srik 14y agoOops, misunderstood that. Got to work on my English. Thanks for clarifying :)