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New 'Tent' Assembly Line Is 'Way Better' Than Conventional Factory, Says Tesla CEO

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There's a lot to be said for agility (Score:5, Insightful)
by Bruce Perens ( 3872 ) <bruce@perens.com> on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:34PM (#56813154)...
So, Elon Musk and his company just built in 5 weeks, literally from the ground up, what GM might spend 10 years architecting and designing, getting the EIR, hiring the right unions and negotiating their contracts, contracting for an acquiring equipment, actually assembling it, staffing it, and starting it running.

This race for profitability is actually viewed with contempt by a commentator of the conventional auto industry.

There is a lot to be said for agility, as any manager or investor in a start-up will tell you. This is simply another difference between Silicon Valley business and the conventional auto business. The same sort of difference that allowed Tesla to make electric cars that could actually compete with gasoline cars on their own turf.

I hear Ferrari is just starting to introduce one that might compete, after Tesla has had theirs on the market since 2007, with three new models since. But that's it so far. Ferrari is pretty agile as auto manufacturers go, but at the cost of low manufacturing volume. Ferrari won't be selling its cars at even 5000/month. Tesla is trying to get both the volume and the innovation.

Bruce Perens has a 4-digit I.D. number!

Bruce Perens (born Oct 24, 1957[1]) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source.[4][5] He co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) with Eric S. Raymond.[6]

He might know a thing or three.