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Re:Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to M... by maxerickson on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:10AM (#14919695)
Speed is different than labor time per vehicle.

Complex manufacturing is typically a highly parallel process.

For instance, as Tesla ramps up to 5,000 vehicles a week sometime this year, Toyota will sell 30 to 40 thousand vehicles a week just in the US. One of them is obviously producing vehicles faster.

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Re:Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to M... by dev1n on Thursday August 03, 2017 @11:15AM (#14920297)
Toyota has 6 factories in the US while Tesla has one. 30,000 Toyota vehicles divided by 6 factories gives you 5,000 a week. Which is what Tesla is doing.
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Re:Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to M... by maxerickson on Thursday August 03, 2017 @11:22AM (#14920358)
Tesla is planning to produce 5000 vehicles a week.

But my point was that removing buttons isn't the only way to quickly produce cars and it is awkward to praise them for their relatively slow production rate. Praise them for reducing the time devoted to assembling each vehicle.

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