Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
by bduerst on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:22PM
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The problem was they are trying to shift to large-scale car manufacturing, and car manufacturing is hard.
They basically have a tent erected in the Nevada desert, next to their stalled plant, where they are hand-assembling cars now, which is causing all kinds of quality issues [1].
Honestly, the buyout from VW would have solved this issue because VW knows how to build cars at scale [2]. The fact they shot this down is exactly that - hubris - and now they're burning through the last of their cash reserves on their way to bankruptcy.
Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
by nardi on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:07AM
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The tent and plant are in Fremont, in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area. You’re thinking of the Gigafactory plant, which is where they make the batteries.
They basically have a tent erected in the Nevada desert, next to their stalled plant, where they are hand-assembling cars now, which is causing all kinds of quality issues [1].
Honestly, the buyout from VW would have solved this issue because VW knows how to build cars at scale [2]. The fact they shot this down is exactly that - hubris - and now they're burning through the last of their cash reserves on their way to bankruptcy.
[1] https://jalopnik.com/bumper-falls-off-brand-new-tesla-model-...
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-bravado-private-doubts-h...