Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s

Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s

  • May 5, 2018
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Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s

Musk is discovering that large-scale car manufacturing is really hard, and it’s not easy to improve on the methods of conventional automakers. And while automation obviously plays an important role in car manufacturing, it’s not the magic bullet Musk imagined a couple of years ago. Far from leapfrogging the techniques of conventional automakers, Tesla is now struggling just to match the efficiency of its more established rivals.

Source: arstechnica.com

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