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by SketchySeaBeast 1170 days ago
Well that's confusing, people seem to be claiming different things. One is that they sell cars as fast as y If they continue to 100% sell out, why reduce margins?
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Hmmm, message got mangled.

"Well that's confusing, people seem to be claiming different things. One is that they sell out immediately, the other is that they need to reduce margins to increase the market size. If they continue to 100% sell out, why reduce margins?

Manufacturing capacity and output are also increasing as they build more Gigafactories and optimize existing ones. The price changes are an optimization to balance sales and production output to avoid shortages or inventory.