| > VW produces 10 million regular ICE cars a year. Yes, VW knows how to build cars, and manage all the aspects of the process, both technical and political, with plants spread through multiple countries continents. And VW knows how to do that at scale. > It will take time to shift an entire entrenched organizational culture to focus on EVs... That assertion makes no sense, specially because VW does not need to switch the focus of anything. It's another power plant with a particular set of requirements, and VW is already handling those for decades and at much larger scale. And production-wise, VW is orders of magnitude more capable and experienced in handling entirely different production processes. Let's put things into perspective: Tesla is currently redlining its production process, including resorting to tents to perform ad-hoc extensions to the company's plant, just to reach 1% of VW's current production capacity, and currently VW is actually scrambling to keep entire factories with a residual production line for non-technical or economical reasons. |