[davidrm]

I work for a tier 1 EV supplier, I've spent 2 months in Hyundai's Namyang R&D center, several weeks at Aston Martin's facilities, and some others, you undersold it by A LOT. Ford, GM and other veterans on the industry have long lost their original spirit, just like any other company, but what they have is established processes and supply chain management, and that takes decades to do right. You can ship a 1st gen iPhone without a working camera, vehicle recalls hit you much harder.

[oblio]

And you need to supply parts for vehicles for almost a decade after the vehicle is no longer sold. At least in Europe.

[ksec]

>but what they have is established processes and supply chain management, and that takes decades to do right.

From my long time reading on HN, 99.99% of HN have absolutely zero visibility and knowledge on anything with Supply Chain.

I mean even the Web Industry and Programmers all jumped on to Cloud computing they dont have have the concept of "lead time" anymore.