German engineers break Tesla again: Model 3 hides an uncomfortable truth

05/31/2018

German engineers break Tesla again Model 3 hides an uncomfortable truth

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Tesla Model 3, potential buyers

German engineers have again a Model 3 from Tesla disassembled – and found in the interior uncomfortable findings for German manufacturers: the car is potentially a winning machine, as the “Wirtschaftswoche” citing the experts reported,

According to the information, the components of the first mass model of the Californians cost just $ 18,000, as the dissection revealed. If you add another $ 10,000 for production costs, a sales price of at least $ 35,000 will leave you with a handsome 20 percent profit margin. If the car manufacturer also sells expensive additional equipment such as the autopilot, the margin should continue to rise.

The bill, according to the report, but only if Tesla the electric car actually masses builds, so with the planned strike rate of 10,000 pieces a week. In production, it has but recently crunched powerful. Currently, Tesla only gets close to 1500 cars a week, estimates the news agency Bloomberg.

In the meantime, Tesla boss Elon Musk had admitted too much to robots in the factory to have set, additionally flown production lines for the associated battery factory and more people instead of machines should accelerate the output now.

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So far, the Model 3 tears down Tesla’s earnings, like the company in his latest quarterly report conceded. According to the larger Model S and Model X generate a gross margin of just over 25 percent. Bottom line, the car business Tesla brings only a gross profit margin of 18.8 percent because of the Model-3 effect. Bottom line Tesla continues to burn lot of money,

New findings brought the Schraubaktion apparently also with a view to the batteries. According to Tesla comes out with far less cobalt, the proportion is 2.8 percent. In the industry, however, are common 8 percent.

Cobalt is considered as metal, which is degraded under inhumane conditions. International commodity companies have often obtained mining rights under completely non-transparent circumstances. In the Congo many children are supposed to win the material.

Tesla had her own last Report on the extraction of raw materials submitted and announced to further reduce the cobalt content. German carmakers like BMW Show stock market chart have also become more open about the subject Committed,

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