WWED quote from Tesla 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day
I think manufacturing is underappreciated in general, and the difficulty of designing the machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.
Tesla 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day
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