[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tesla Assembly Line (Page 1 of 6)
Posted: 7/18/2013 12:34:47 PM EDT
Awesome vid, that deserves its own thread.
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 Electric cars are smokin hot
http://dqbasmyouzti2.cloudfront.net/assets/content/cache/made/content/images/articles/Car-fire_310_207.jpg Very weird. 
I think I have seen more gas powered cars burn up in my life than electric YMMV  
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Electric cars are smokin hot
http://dqbasmyouzti2.cloudfront.net/assets/content/cache/made/content/images/articles/Car-fire_310_207.jpg Very weird.
I think I have seen more gas powered cars burn up in my life than electric YMMV Ford and Prius
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What, do about 10 people work in that facility? I hardly saw a human touch it up to the painting of the body when I stopped watching. Quoted:
What, do about 10 people work in that facility? I hardly saw a human touch it up to the painting of the body when I stopped watching. You make it sound like it's a bad thing... http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21576218-tesla-has-high-hopes-its-high-spec-electric-cars-general-electric-motors
So far Tesla is using only a quarter of the Fremont plant’s vast area. This year it plans to make just 20,000 cars as it concentrates on moving into profit. Mr Musk acquired the factory for $42m, far less than it would have cost to build, and bought lots of second-hand equipment. ... Working in Tesla’s favour is its lack of baggage of any kind. It has no internal-combustion technology to defend, and thus no problem in reaching regulators’ ever tighter targets for fuel efficiency. It has no inherited pension and health-care liabilities and no auto workers’ union. In the past premium car brands have typically taken decades to establish themselves, but perhaps the “millennial” generation, used to seeing new smartphones rise and old ones fall, will be more open to start-up brands, especially ones from Silicon Valley. http://www.wired.com/business/2009/06/elon-musk-on-the-inevitability-of-the-ev-running-detroit-and-firing-a-certain-someone/
Part of the problem with Detroit, he says, is the union system. “It’s not out of the question to have unions, but if there’s going to be a union, they’d better understand that they’re on the same side as the company,” he added. “I’m against having a two-class system where you’ve got the workers and then the managers, sort of like nobles and peasants… “Most of our experienced factory workers come from unionized environments, and we asked them what benefit did they see in unions,” he added. “They said, ‘Well, if their boss was an asshole, they had recourse.’ “I said, ‘Let’s make a rule: There will be no assholes.’ I fired someone for being an asshole. And I only had to do that once, actually.” |
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Electric cars are smokin hot
http://dqbasmyouzti2.cloudfront.net/assets/content/cache/made/content/images/articles/Car-fire_310_207.jpg Very weird.
I think I have seen more gas powered cars burn up in my life than electric YMMV Yup. When I was a fire fighter, I had to pull the bodies of 5 kids out of a car that burned after an accident. |
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Tesla is doing well these days.
Currently producing 400 Model S cars a week. Link |
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Quoted: The idea isn't to work for Tesla on the production line. You want to be the guy designing/implementing/troubleshooting/improving the robots.  Quoted: Quoted: If I worked for Tesla I would be wondering how long before a robot replaces me  The idea isn't to work for Tesla on the production line. You want to be the guy designing/implementing/troubleshooting/improving the robots. Seems that Musk runs it more like a tech company than a manufacture.
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Quoted: I saw a Tesla parked near my work literally yesterday. I had to drive up to it to figure out what maker it was. Sharp looking car, looked expensive. How much are they going for? They start at $62,400. You can go all the way up to ~$100,000 if you option the shit out of it.
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If I worked for Tesla I would be wondering how long before a robot replaces me Robots don't replace people in manufacturing, they augment them. I huge part of what I actually do for a living is building prototype parts by hand, developing the process for assembly and manufacture, then I figure out if I can get a machine to do it. Doing that to an existing job on a line is interesting, because you talk to the operator and figure out what he does, then I get a machine to mimic it, and I train him how to run the robot. So the guy who puts in screws is now supervising 3 machines that can do 10 times the work he could. and since we are using robots now, we have to put in airconditioning. So he gets upgraded to a robot tech with a payraise, and gets airconditioning. win-fucking-win |
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Quoted: They start at $62,400. You can go all the way up to ~$100,000 if you option the shit out of it. Quoted: Quoted: I saw a Tesla parked near my work literally yesterday. I had to drive up to it to figure out what maker it was. Sharp looking car, looked expensive. How much are they going for? They start at $62,400. You can go all the way up to ~$100,000 if you option the shit out of it. Yep, just saw their page. http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options Knowing nothing about them, a 230 mile range, any where to find a comparison on money spent to charge batteries daily compared to gasoline cost? |
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If I worked for Tesla I would be wondering how long before a robot replaces me The idea isn't to work for Tesla on the production line. You want to be the guy designing/implementing/troubleshooting/improving the robots. Seems that Musk runs it more like a tech company than a manufacture. |
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Quoted: Yep, just saw their page. http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options Knowing nothing about them, a 230 mile range, any where to find a comparison on money spent to charge batteries daily compared to gasoline cost? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I saw a Tesla parked near my work literally yesterday. I had to drive up to it to figure out what maker it was. Sharp looking car, looked expensive. How much are they going for? They start at $62,400. You can go all the way up to ~$100,000 if you option the shit out of it. Yep, just saw their page. http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options Knowing nothing about them, a 230 mile range, any where to find a comparison on money spent to charge batteries daily compared to gasoline cost? Found it. http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#savings |
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Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Quoted:
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Meanwhile, Detroit goes broke. Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. fiat does the same thing |
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Quoted: Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Quoted: Quoted: Meanwhile, Detroit goes broke. Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Long overdue. The traditional car dealer really needs to go the way of the dodo. I hope it does, someday.
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Quoted: Long overdue. The traditional car dealer really needs to go the way of the dodo. I hope it does, someday. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Meanwhile, Detroit goes broke. Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Long overdue. The traditional car dealer really needs to go the way of the dodo. I hope it does, someday. How is service handled?
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Meanwhile, Detroit goes broke. Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Long overdue. The traditional car dealer really needs to go the way of the dodo. I hope it does, someday. How is service handled? Mail it back? Send it to an independent or a registered service center? Or maybe they just don't break. Or maybe they don't come with a warranty |
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I've been driving a Tesla Model S Performance for the past 2 weeks, and I'm convinced Tesla is the future. The Volt, Leaf, Prius are all a joke compared to Tesla; its not fair to even put them in the same class. The Tesla is as fast, if not faster, than a new Corvette (0-60 ~4s), plus comfortably seats 5 people and all their luggage. With 250 miles of range, the average commuter only needs to plug it into a 220v dryer plug once a week.
The machines that install the batteries are $500k, and are the same machines slowly being installed in the battery swap stations across the US. |
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Quoted: How is service handled? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Meanwhile, Detroit goes broke. Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Long overdue. The traditional car dealer really needs to go the way of the dodo. I hope it does, someday. How is service handled? At Tesla service centers.
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Meanwhile, Detroit goes broke. Hah. Yup. The Tesla sales model is fascinating as well. I haven't seen a dealership yet, but I have seen stores in malls with completed cars. Customers look at the car, and special order what they want. All at the mall. Long overdue. The traditional car dealer really needs to go the way of the dodo. I hope it does, someday. How is service handled? Mail it back? Send it to an independent or a registered service center? Or maybe they just don't break. Or maybe they don't come with a warranty Wholly owned service centers, with a house call model purportedly modeled after the Best Buy "Geek Squad" concept. They add charges based on distance. http://www.teslamotors.com/service#/tesla-service Not cheap, but then again its a luxury product and was always meant to be. |