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Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by bwilson4web, Mar 20, 2020.

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    pretty sure cali is running limited employees, also doing upgrades though.

    germany still building building

    china started to come back a week or two ago

    good thing tesla has plenny of preorders, delivery still a problem
     
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    Looks like they will be able to put spare capacity to work.

    According to Musk, Tesla will have 1,000 ventilators ready by next week.

    He also noted they already have 250,000 N95 masks ready to distribute to hospitals. Guessing they already had the later of these on hand. Nice work, companies stepping up...
     
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    it's incredible to me how companies can make a completely different product so quickly
     
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    Source: Tesla Donates N95 Masks & PAPR Helmets, Much More Coming Soon

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    There is a difference between Musk and others.

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    South Orange County Costco is still a Zoo, taking over 1½ hrs just to get up to the entrance - not even counting the wait prior to opening. This trip was just for the old folks that we know in our area. Wait a minute! WE are old! Someone should be doing this for us!

    What's almost funny is listening to a few in line getting all bit-chee about line cutters ... & the other minority of whiny complainers - the ones still trying to politicize the issue. Here's what i tell them, " it could be worse, it could be raining"

    I don't think they got it.

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    Gigafactory news?
     
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    cali is shut down, (doing upgrades and makong ventilators) not sure about china
     
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    Certainly the California Manufacturing location in Fremont can't be running, what with the governor nuking any & all Commerce but for emergency things and bare necessities like food and Sundries. With no car manufacturing .... why would the gigafactory be putting battery packs together still.
     
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    They can build ahead and keep people working in Nevada. Maybe go down to 1 shift and keep doing that until they restart.

    Tesla is an agile company. With Medtronics know how and their fremont california employees and equipment, they should be able to quickly ramp into producing ventilators. Get some people back to work safely in california producing critical medical equipment.
     
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    Although Panasonic announced sending their Nevada staff home, there may yet be cells in the inventory or 18650 cells imported. Building battery packs is what Tesla needs for when the assembly lines restart.

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    The ventilators Tesla supplied came from China. Still it was great they could use their China connections to help.

    Freemont is permitted to make updates to the production line and clean the factory is what I've read. Things they can do while keeping people dispersed.
     
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    you mean in spite of what the Governor sayz. What are they going to do ... lock 'em up in an over-crowded jail cell?

    that's what's going on w/ the under 30 crowds at the so cal beaches. life guard & cops saying get out - but the response is what-cha gona do .... put us in over-crowded jails that have no room for drug dealers & the burglary crowd?
    So - yea - i suppose freemont COULD keep going.
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    what ventilators tesla supplied? i thought they were going to build some
     
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    Elon bought about 1,200 in China and had them shipped to the USA. I don't know who eventually got them.

    Long term, Elon has already had discussions and given the Tesla and SpaceX flexibility, I suspect we'll see early units soon.

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    IIRC, he sent them to Washington (state).
     
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    Dyson (the fancy vacuum man) has designed a ventilator, produced a prototype and is gonna produce 20k of them PDQ. Good for him. It is the kind of thing many of his inventions do...move air. (They also remove $ from my wallet.)

    Now if someone could only invent more doctors and nurses. And a working vaccination in a years time.
     
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    ma is graduating all their med students early, getting them straight into the hospitals

    edit: (sorry, i didn't realize we were in the gigafactory thread:oops:)
     
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