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Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
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Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#42Tesla should be very wary of the very real threat from corporate espionage in China. Brining a factory to China would allow a bad actor to really get into enterprise and create even better clones. Tesla wouldn't be able to keep up financially if Chinese manufactures built cars using Tesla research resources. side thought: Maybe TESLA turns into a research company that sells its IP to manufactures instead of actually…
I'm doubtful this will happen, based on what we've seen in the car industry in the past. Foreign car companies have had to build cars via Chinese joint ventures for decades, and as yet, not a single Chinese car company has seen any large success outside of China.
AFAIK, Chinese people themselves tend to prefer foreign cars, see them as higher quality status symbols.
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#43Tesla should be very wary of the very real threat from corporate espionage in China. Brining a factory to China would allow a bad actor to really get into enterprise and create even better clones. Tesla wouldn't be able to keep up financially if Chinese manufactures built cars using Tesla research resources. side thought: Maybe TESLA turns into a research company that sells its IP to manufactures instead of actually…
I’m not into cars, sorry if it’s a stupid question.
Does Tesla have that much valuable research ? I thought their manufacturing process came from external actors with experience in “legacy” car makers. Same with their batteries technology, didn’t big players like Panasonic intervene to bring their experience ?
Regarding AI or software they don’t seem to be ahead of the other players either.
From a distance, Tesla looks like a company that believed in bold ideas and had the chops to execute on them. Is there a “secret sauce” outside of that ?
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#44This article is blocked to the EU.
"This article is only available to readers that move their VPN server to Canada"
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#45Tesla should be very wary of the very real threat from corporate espionage in China. Brining a factory to China would allow a bad actor to really get into enterprise and create even better clones. Tesla wouldn't be able to keep up financially if Chinese manufactures built cars using Tesla research resources. side thought: Maybe TESLA turns into a research company that sells its IP to manufactures instead of actually…
Teslas stated goal is improving the adoption of sustainable energy; selling cars is only a part of it. Perhaps they feel that a little espionage is worth it to get 500000 electric cars a year onto Chinese roads?
Came here to say this. Considering Tesla has already opened up their patent library, I think they're begging the industry to copy them.
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#46Tesla should be very wary of the very real threat from corporate espionage in China. Brining a factory to China would allow a bad actor to really get into enterprise and create even better clones. Tesla wouldn't be able to keep up financially if Chinese manufactures built cars using Tesla research resources. side thought: Maybe TESLA turns into a research company that sells its IP to manufactures instead of actually…
So China can steal Tesla's method of sloppily making fewer cars at a loss? If they have a secret sauce it surely isn't inside the factory.
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#47Tesla should be very wary of the very real threat from corporate espionage in China. Brining a factory to China would allow a bad actor to really get into enterprise and create even better clones. Tesla wouldn't be able to keep up financially if Chinese manufactures built cars using Tesla research resources. side thought: Maybe TESLA turns into a research company that sells its IP to manufactures instead of actually…
> side thought: Maybe TESLA turns into a research company
TESLA's secret is that they're a battery company. I don't think people understand how big of an issue energy storage is, and what the resulting opportunity is. Energy storage to Tesla is what AWS is to Amazon.
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#48This article is blocked to the EU.
Because the LA times, being a local newspaper, doesn’t want to bother with EU laws.
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#49Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
Yes it took me 5 seconds to move my VPN to Canada.
Re: Tesla plans China factory that can make 500,000 vehicles a year
#50Hopefully for export, otherwise they'll unfortunately mostly be powered by coal :(