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by ux-app 2909 days ago
> "I don’t think anyone’s seen anything like this outside of the military trying to service vehicles in a war zone. I pity any customer taking delivery of one of these cars. The quality will be shocking"

Ouch, that is scathing, proof will be in the pudding though. If there are a lot of QA issues (which it seems reasonable to assume) then the recall rate + bad press might sink them. It's a scrappy (maybe desperate?) move, one which you would expect from an underdog, so good luck to them.
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manicdee 2908 days ago
That quote is entirely based on mischaracterisation of the new building as a tent, open to the elements. It’s a hangar with a synthetic cloth skin instead of metal or wood cladding.

Nothing in this Bloomberg article reflects reality.

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ux-app 2908 days ago
the characteristics of the building are mostly irrelevant and a discerning reader will pick up the tent characterisation as hyperbolic. The main thrust is that the decision to set up an ad hoc manufacturing plant could be seen as either

- chaotic/desperate or

- pragmatic and brilliantly subversive of the status quo.

I'm sure we'll get lots of articles painting both sides. Time will tell which one of the two it is.

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manicdee 2908 days ago
It is both chaotic and brilliant. Why disrupt the existing lines when you can just build some new factory space really cheaply?
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