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by SEJeff 742 days ago
It was a month, not a few hours, and I have no idea where you got the $200,000 number. That is certainly not what Elon himself said. He said 1 month.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1323640901248393217

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The reason you have no idea is you're talking about different instances of near bankruptcy for Tesla. Which tends to support GP's point.
What other instances? That was the really obvious one during model 3 “production hell” as they scaled up production mostly on hopium assuming they’d sell.