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Elon Musk UK visit - potential factory?
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Good luck with that. Scotland will change straight away, NI will march and fight over what to do. England will promise to change by 2045 and then delay it and overrun on budget. Only Wales has the answer.. we drive down the middle 'cos it's only single track roads here..
Jason71
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You would be suprised how much stuff Tesla make themselves. They have much more 'vertical integration' than other makers. It's one of their strengths /weakness dependant on who you ask.
They make their own seats for example. Something most others would never bother with.
Watts_Up
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Beside a new car (?) or battery factory, it could be related to green energy to build another "Giga factory 2" to build solar panels and power walls
or even to start new projects to improve heating and air conditioning devices using Tesla heat pump experience and UK R&D and fundings.
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I am aware.. indeed they own their own car making robots factory too. But they don't make the seats - they assemble them from steel tube, stepper motors, synthetic fabric etc..
Nor (as far as I'm aware) do they make bearings, wire, steel or ally sheet, paint and most electronic components.. although they do make some of their own chips.. well sub the design out anyway. Then there are tyres, seals, lining materials, window laminating sheets... like all stuff 'made in XXX' its made in china and assembed in XXX...
Nor is The Musk flying around the world in his expensive private jet.
Billbrown1982
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I'd settle for a parts warehouse at this stage...
JupiterMan
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Republic of Ireland may not agree with that analysis!
Why Shanghai or Freemont can make both LHD & RHD but people think Berlin wont confuses me. I would have thought tooling costs at Berlin would be far less than 3 weeks of shipping & logistic costs. Local manufacturing would also help Tesla meet local demand/supply needs better and assist with reducing inventory and green footprint as discussed.
There are many options for Tesla investment in UK other than the slightly improbable car factory. As a few have pointed out there is advanced design, engineering and materials resource in a number of university areas. Despite Brexit there is sound logic to use those technical resources. Battery storage is another plausible area. My personal suspicion is that the aerospace technology arena may end out being the target. There is a solid industrial base with advanced materials and manufacturing already in the UK. That could be pertinent from Space X and Tesla, specifically for Starlink as well.
I think there will be UK investment from the Musk enterprises. Announcements will probably come soon. With so many possibilities I would not even guess about what form that could take, at least not without a great deal more information.
Very soon we will begin hearing about green (at least less toxic) shipping efforts. There are a few vestigial efforts in Scandinavia mostly, but nothing for car carriers, roro or container ships has advanced far. Given Elon’s thought processes I will be amazed if that is not the next major play. While large shipbuilding is not now the UK forte, the design and technology is another story.
in my opinion the UK is far more likely to play these sorts of roles than it is to build cars. Brexit pretty well destroys chance for large scale manufacturing. Even Sunderland voted for self-destruction on that topic.
I think there will be UK investment from the Musk enterprises. Announcements will probably come soon. With so many possibilities I would not even guess about what form that could take, at least not without a great deal more information.
Very soon we will begin hearing about green (at least less toxic) shipping efforts. There are a few vestigial efforts in Scandinavia mostly, but nothing for car carriers, roro or container ships has advanced far. Given Elon’s thought processes I will be amazed if that is not the next major play. While large shipbuilding is not now the UK forte, the design and technology is another story.
in my opinion the UK is far more likely to play these sorts of roles than it is to build cars. Brexit pretty well destroys chance for large scale manufacturing. Even Sunderland voted for self-destruction on that topic.
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Steering and brakes are not drive by wire. They have a direct mechanical connection too.
Since assembled products - of any sort - have a lot of air/ wasted space it's a lot more efficient to ship raw materials/or event stacked parts.
Even a small car assembly line would make sense for UK. The market is certainly large enough.
But the entire thread is pure speculation... I'd be thrilled to see *any* manufacturing coming to UK, especially by Tesla. Maybe they plan to make wind turbines for Bojo... Who cares? It's jobs.
Even a small car assembly line would make sense for UK. The market is certainly large enough.
But the entire thread is pure speculation... I'd be thrilled to see *any* manufacturing coming to UK, especially by Tesla. Maybe they plan to make wind turbines for Bojo... Who cares? It's jobs.
I'm not sure someone with the name bull_trader_UK is going to be the best source..
Jason71
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