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They said it was the whole assembly but I’ll grab the invoice later to confirm.
arstechnica.com
www.caranddriver.com
That was a pretty crap article Sunny. I expect as much from a fanboy site though. Equating efficiency solely to time required to assemble a car is garbage. I can throw something together too if I don't care what it looks like or if parts fall off. Once quality is equal, then start looking at time to construct. Tesla is doing far better than I expected and articles should focus on reality, a pure fanboy article does nobody any favors.
Usually an automaker will care about how many minutes between completed vehicle (technically, aka, how many seconds per car) at the end of the line (rolling off the line) and therefore how many cars per hour/shift/day/year etc.. How long it takes for each car to go down the line is really misleading and almost meaningless. For example at extremes; automaker one may take 20 hours to build a car but produces a car every 60 seconds (one rolls off the line every 60 seconds). Automaker two builds a car in 10 hours (half the time) but only produces one car every 10 hours, or even say every 10 minutes.... which is more efficient?
Sadly that's par for the course in fanboy land.
I'll talk about it when it stops being vapourware. It seems plausible that some will get delivered but whether it is a viable company or just a technology and marketing wank depends on how the vehicles fare in the wild.
Motor Trend seems to think it's viable
This is the type of city car we need here. Basically a box with seats. a reasonable price for a second or third car in the driveway for short trips. $7k is perfect. It needs to avoid NA safety measures by not being legal on the highway.
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www.reuters.com
They did the same thing with their Boring Company. Didn’t like the rules in CA so they moved office to TX.In what should come as a surprise to no-one, Tesla is moving their headquarters from the land of "You can't do that" to the land of "I do what I want" (Austin).
Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday the electric carmaker plans to move its headquarters from Silicon Valley's Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, where it is building a massive car and battery manufacturing complex.
Tesla supposedly got around the same law in New Mexico by setting up a store on native land.
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