Krugerrand
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There can be lots of business/financial/economic/personnel reasons. Tesla has always understood balancing business health timing, the importance of efficiencies, and the mission. It’s why Tesla survived and is thriving.I'm curious, what sensible reason could Tesla have for delaying Giga Mexico? The $25K Tesla is paramount to achieving Tesla's goal of accelerating the word's adoption of EV's. What reasons could Tesla have for purposefully delaying the production of the Gen 4 Compact platform?
Projects have been delayed over the years for all sorts of reasons we tend to not find out about until much later; waiting on technology, running into an issue and needing to regroup and come at it a different way, supplier issues, shortage of manpower, other projects needing more attention first, a change of priority due to something unexpected happening, etc…
We’re also all well aware of how proactive Elon has been over the years when he thinks macro economics are going to change.
Just because one can’t come up with a reason for a decision, doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
I remember a time when people didn’t understand why Tesla sold Model S’s to people without carpeting. Turned out the carpet was stuck on a transport truck in Mexico because of a cartel shootout at the border crossing and Tesla needed to sell those cars to stay afloat.
I remember Tesla suddenly canceling deliveries of Model Ss and people were all up in arms. Turned out the new seats being made by the in-house supplier had failed to achieve a 5* rating and that wasn’t acceptable to Elon. Tesla had to quickly design and begin making their own seats.
I remember several delays due to supplier issues, another due to personnel shortages, another due to having to rewrite programming code because a business partner messed up, another because of a bot, another because a product was more popular than expected, another due to bureaucracy. The list is endless.
So, yeah. A million reasons why there could be a delay building GigaMexico including it simply being a business decision.
While collectively we have a lot of information, we also collectively don’t know diddly squat about what’s going on behind the scenes. I find it annoying people think they know what’s going on, especially after being historically wrong but then I’m annoyed simply at the existence of people.
