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New 'Tent' Assembly Line Is 'Way Better' Than Conventional Factory, Says Tesla CEO (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the cheaper-by-the-dozen dept.

A few days ago, Elon Musk announced a "new general assembly line" made with "minimal resources." As Ars Technica reports, this new tented facility "is seemingly the first phase of an entirely new building, dubbed 'Factory 2.0.'" From the report: The tent is easily visible from the nearby Warm Springs BART station platform. When Ars visited on Monday afternoon, there appeared to be cranes and forklifts moving around the site. We could not easily see inside the long white temporary structure, but there did not appear to be any newly completed vehicles rolling off the lines in the adjacent parking lot. Still, one automotive expert that Ars spoke with said that a new temporary manufacturing facility on the same site as conventional automotive factories was unprecedented in the industry. Dave Sullivan, an analyst with Auto Pacific, told Ars that he wondered what was wrong with Tesla's existing facilities, if Musk decided the company needed more capacity. "It's almost a sign of desperation," he said. "It's a sprint to be profitable in the third quarter." Ars notes that "each tent is 53-feet-high by 150-feet-long -- there seem to be several connected in a long line, mounted with aluminum framing." In a tweet, Musk said: "It's actually way better than the factory building. More comfortable & a great view of the mountains."

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  1. Carnie's gonna bark by Scareduck · · Score: 2, Funny

    We already know who the clown is, now we've got tents for this circus. Very good, Elon.

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  2. I see by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who's the shift foreman, Sheriff Joe?

  3. Re:Better TODAY... by dgatwood · · Score: 1, Funny

    Considering that the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 56.7 degrees, you're sitting somewhere else. If that's the alleged final destination of trolls who make completely out-of-topic posts, that place has not frozen yet. This is plausible considering that Elon Musk still has weird ideas, politicians still lie, everything seems to be going as usual.

    Whoa, there. If Earth were really only 56.7 degrees, it would be a frozen hell already. I think you mean that the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 331.15.

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  4. Re:Better TODAY... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone pretending to be you a few days ago for your lawsuit story.. Said they had a family computer and looked up porn on it.

    I saw that photo of eight blazing Core i9 CPUs, bathing in heat-sink grease and wet with cooling water, nestled in a motherboard carrying an entire 256 gigabytes of RAM. I'm still panting today!

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  5. Re:Better TODAY... by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since the highest temperature ever recorded was in 1913, but the degree wasn't removed from the Kelvin standard until 1968, I think you are shaky ground here.

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  6. Re:More room for manual assembly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You want an example? Flufferbot.

    That is not a job I would trust to robots just yet. At least not until the Westworld bugs get worked out.

  7. Re:Didn't they read his letter from yesterday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't stand it, I know you planned it
    I'mma set it straight, this Autogate
    I can't stand driving' when I'm in here
    'Cause your auto drive ain't so auto stear.