Tesla’s highly anticipated $25,000 electric vehicle won’t just be its most affordable model yet; it’s poised to introduce an innovative manufacturing approach that could dramatically slash costs.
The automaker refers to its new manufacturing approach as the ‘unboxed’ method. Instead of relying on a conventional assembly line, Tesla intends to deploy small teams of workers to simultaneously assemble different key components of the vehicle, which will then be integrated during final assembly. This innovative approach to car manufacturing holds the potential to halve production costs and shrink the required manufacturing footprint by over 40%
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