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Re:Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4 by DarmokJalad1701 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:03AM (#22189001)
If you look at their letter you can see a comparison between the layouts of their California and Shanghai factories. Massive difference in efficiency. They learned a lot from their initial debacle of Model 3 ramp-up. Cap-ex per unit was announced as being 65% lower in the China factory.
Re:Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4 by QuantumGood on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:39AM (#22190897)
65% lower cap-ex per unit in China is astonishing. Elon's "machine that builds the machine" vision really created a lot of misprioritization.