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Old 09-25-2023, 08:19 PM   #142 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JSH
There is little left to automate in a US vehicle assembly plant. Body-in-white and paint are already almost completely automated. Final assembly is VERY hard to automate. ... At this point the easiest solution is to just shift production from the US to Mexico.
Where we're going (back to the future) we don't need paint. Or, the best paint is no paint.

Standing up a Gigafactory in Mexico apparently has pitfalls. Tesla will start with a pilot plan in Austin to solve the working inside a finished shell problem there.

Populate the door, hang it on the sidewall --seats on the battery pack -- and then put the big pieces together.
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