How Long Till Delivery

[smack daddy]

But it has an EV battery, 1-speed transmission drive unit/differential, electric motor, and charging system. That's just as difficult to manufacture as an engine, transmission and exhaust system.

I don’t believe that they are actually manufacturing much they have outsourced a lot of it they are pretty much just assembling a bunch of parts other than the frame and the body panels everything else is outsourced

 

[E90400K]

I don’t believe that they are actually manufacturing much they have outsourced a lot of it they are pretty much just assembling a bunch of parts other than the frame and the body panels everything else is outsourced

Good Lord...I'll rewrite it...

But it has an EV battery, 1-speed transmission drive unit/differential, electric motor, and charging system. That's just as difficult to manufacture/assemble a vehicle that as an engine, transmission and exhaust system.

Yes, all cars are final-assembled at an assembly plant from parts, components, and subassemblies. Just because its an EV doesn't make the assembly process easier or faster.

 

[Doctors Do Little]

Good Lord...I'll rewrite it...

But it has an EV battery, 1-speed transmission drive unit/differential, electric motor, and charging system. That's just as difficult to manufacture/assemble a vehicle that as an engine, transmission and exhaust system.

Yes, all cars are final-assembled at an assembly plant from parts, components, and subassemblies. Just because its an EV doesn't make the assembly process easier or faster.

But but but….it’s electric and stuff! It must be easier!

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Good Lord...I'll rewrite it...

So what you’re trying to say is making cars is hard?

 

[KevinRS]

I think part of the point of the whole strategy Slate is using from the ground up, way before they announced the truck last year, is having far less subassemblies.

 

[JoeBlow-Kokomo]

But but but….it’s electric and stuff! It must be easier!

(it is)

 

[E90400K]

So what you’re trying to say is making cars is hard?

'Lil bit...

 

[1974D2004X4]

I don’t believe that they are actually manufacturing much they have outsourced a lot of it they are pretty much just assembling a bunch of parts other than the frame and the body panels everything else is outsourced

Spot on Smack, that’s every EV start up.

 

[Granite]

That’s the way startup car companies operated in the pre WWII DAYS. So it stands to reason that a pretty basic new vehicle today produced by a new car company would operate the same way.

 

[E90400K]

I don’t believe that they are actually manufacturing much they have outsourced a lot of it they are pretty much just assembling a bunch of parts other than the frame and the body panels everything else is outsourced

The frame is made from outsourced stamped steel pieces welded together in various jigs (welding stations) along the frame construction section of the assembly line.