Thursday, July 18, 2013

How the Tesla Motors S is Made

      Tesla Motors, the company responsible for mass producing the electric car Model S, has claimed to be confident that the production would double to 800 per week until late 2014. In other words, they believe themselves to making equivalent to 40,000 Model S vehicles per year. The latest news provided with an interview with Co-Founder Elon Musk notes that he has said that right now they are "above 400 a week at the current manpower, and not trivially above it." Thus, this helps form the conclusion that they hold of the number they would be mass producing and selling.


       But, how is Tesla Motors S able to produce such a large number of vehicles in a short length of time? How are they different from other automakers when it comes to building the cars? What helps them be more efficient?


      The video below, produced by WIRED magazine, allows us to take a look inside the 5 million-square-foot New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), which is currently known as the Tesla Factory, in Fremont, California.


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