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Re:Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July by joez on Friday August 07, 2009 @02:06PM (#748171)
Definitely! I'd love to see a big Tesla plant driving down 101.

It does worry me that if he builds a large portion in house, does it then scale as well as say a Toyota? Is supply chain management somewhere in his background?

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Re:Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July by Retric on Friday August 07, 2009 @08:26PM (#748784)
I think supply chain management is less of a problem now that a single CnC machine can make a wide range of parts. The goal of any supply chain should be balancing the number of suppliers with the overhead costs. And I think that's been shifting to fewer suppliers for a while now.
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