WWED quote from Tesla 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day
It's just at least 10 to 100 times harder to do the factory than the prototype, and that's why you see a lot of companies out there or startups they'll bring out a prototype, but they just can't get it over the hump for who manufacturing, because manufacturing of new technology especially is the hardest thing by fa.
Tesla 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day
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