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Originally Posted by RedDevil
It's not the car there but the battery module assembly in the Gigafactory. For what I know a different sized battery needs different tooling, ideally a completely separate line. But that's costly.
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OTOH, sensible design would make the battery out of smaller, identical modules, so you could put say 6, 8, or 10 of them in a car. And
really sensible design would standardize the size and connectors between manufacturers, the same way that AAA, AA, C, and D sized batteries, or the way you can easily upgrade say the disk drive in your computer without having to buy a manufacturer-specific model. (Well, unless you bought an Apple product :-()
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Musk did not expect the severity of the startup problems nor the lax response of the competition, otherwise the base model would already be on sale. He wanted to boost reservations, fully expecting to deliver.
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IDK. I think a lot of the problems are down to his decisions. It seems as though for every good idea he comes up with, he has to do something really dumb to balance things.