> Tesla turned things around by building a factory in Shanghai, and learning how to build a car from the Chinese. That has very little to do with Fremont the f

> Tesla turned things around by building a factory in Shanghai, and learning how to build a car from the Chinese. That has very little to do with Fremont the facility. The Fremont facility is where Toyota showed GM how to build cars properly--an expensive lesson which GM and Tesla both decided to ignore. I would suggest that the real "innovation" of Tesla's foreign factories was simply getting them far enough away from Musk that he couldn't easily screw them up ...