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There's a number of questions on this thread about Telsa's production uptick being about "burning the late night oil" or automation. Does anyone have any reliable insight into this question?

And, regarding their automation, a few honest questions:

1. How much automation are we talking about, compared to the status quo?

2. How much of the automation is reusable across other models? Are they building up a repeatable model to increase scale at a lower cost?

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Both are important.

They haven't ramped up automation yet, so right now they're burning the midnight oil on both regular production (i.e. likely with a similar labor/automation mix as typical manufacturers) AND tuning automation. Trying to do both simultaneously on a compressed timescale is what makes this hard.