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Re:“China's Tesla” NIO slashes thousands of jobs as losses m... by narrator on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:37PM (#21063756)
Elon has said that the key Tesla technology is the factories. The battery factory and the car factory that they are constantly evolving. That's much harder to replicate in China, mainly because those companies can operate very inefficiently thanks to State sponsorship.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/30/automating-intelligentl...

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Re:“China's Tesla” NIO slashes thousands of jobs as losses m... by Faark on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:22PM (#21072910)
Tesla doesn't seem to keep engineering of new factory processes out of china [0]. The batteries for GF3 seem to be bought from LG Chem [1]. So yeah, I don't see Tesla being that worried about their IP or something like that.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d8un7f/tesla_i... [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d7i0vk/lg_chem...

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