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Originally Posted by pornguy
Drop the cost of the car by 10% and get more people into them. More people driving them means more people need replacement parts and batteries and such. that's where he makes his money. Its what all the other car companies do.
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It's my understanding that it's a stickier wicket than that. Parts for instance, super complicated right now with sub-contractors, and sub-sub-contractors, etc. Many parts are being shipped to off site tooling companies to be retooled because of production issues.
they are currently in shutdown number 2 this year on the model 3 assembly line converting it from automated to human, as the automation experiment failed thoroughly.
Oh, and the tax credit for the model 3 will be expiring soon, so the cost of the car will go up substantially.
A sticky wicket indeed, especially for a CEO running several businesses and distracted by Mars.