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The GigaFactory Pre Tour

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  1. hill

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    Recently, some of the owners & reservation list folks got to check out what's going on with Tesla's battery production plan. Here's 15 minutes of the show;



    Full production will definately be able to handle the 400,000 + Model 3 reservations, when fully operational.
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    incredible. is the guy on the left his personal chef?
     
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    Yeah, it doesn't look like Mr Musk has missed many meals lately. In the video he says he really likes manufacturing. Man - if I was under his kind of stress I'd be shedding pounds in record time. No exercise necessary.
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    Apple took the opposite approach. They outsourced almost all of their hardware supply chain which can be an asset at times and a liability at other times.

    Apple's market cap shows they are one of the most successful companies of all time. So not sure owning a large part of the hardware supply chain is an important part of the secret sauce.
     
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    successful walmart outsources everythint too ... because who cares if we actually produce anything - as long as the bottom line means profit at the top.

    Revealed: Inside Apple's Chinese 'sweatshop' factory where workers are paid just £1.12 per hour | Daily Mail Online

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/uk/664296/secretive-iPhone-factory-safety-nets-stop-suicides-Apple-Petagron/amp

    Apple - where manufacturing being far far away is very good. and now they wana build cars ...


    I wonder how much Chinese morgue workers and net weavers make ... kind gives new meaning to the trickle down theory.
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    Interesting thoughts, but what does this have to do with the Gigafactory gaining a cost advantage for the Model 3 over the Leaf, Bolt, etc.?
     
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    'who cares' are the key words. few americans, that's for sure, except for some out of work coal miners. and they only care about 'their' jobs.
     
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    cost advantage is simple - the manufacturing here means;
    1st - volume/scale (of gigafactory) makes product cost less
    2nd - buying battery product abroad adds shipping costs as well as loss of control of delivery via unforeseeable uncertainties
    3rd - US jobs - US dollars stay here - and/or create more exportable product
    4th - the China/Apple example above - we don't discreetly promote slave labor / which thus guarantees (US) wages one can survive on - as well as cleaner/enviro-responsible manufacturing.
    That's just off the top of my head.
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