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by rr808 1530 days ago
> Herbert Deiss, the CEO of Volkswagen, recently lamented that a Model 3 is made by Tesla start to finish in approximately ten hours when an equivalent VW EV is made in a touch over thirty hours.

Nobody really cares about this. Esp if Tesla build quality is poor and VW is great I'd think the fast build is doing them no favors.
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kwhitefoot 1529 days ago
Nobody who buys one cares. The people who make them care because spending 20 hour more time means spending a lot more money for the same return.
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SEJeff 1530 days ago
The reason this matters is that they make more cars in less time so they make more money. The build quality hype is pretty overrated IMO. Tesla build quality is actually pretty good now.
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rr808 1529 days ago
How does that allow them to make more money? I can see the factory could be a little smaller?
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