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. .
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. .
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.
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. .
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.?
'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.
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. .
