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    DECONSTRUCTED 3

    May 25, 2018 3 minutes
    Words Frank Markus
    Photographs Steven Pham
    ASSESSING THE UNDERLYING ENGINEERING OF THE MAKE-OR-BREAK TESLA

    It doesn’t take much Googling to locate alarming headlines about Tesla’s Model 3. Parts rework rates of 40 percent! Line speeds still less than half of Elon Musk’s promised rate! Never mind the hate-posting on Twitter: Stock price tumbles! Shorts pass $10 billion!

    Is this just a case of a niche manufacturer struggling with the transition to high-volume production, or is the Model 3’s essential engineering flawed?

    We’re not going to weigh in here on Tesla’s production ramp-up struggles. Rather, we’re going to dig with some

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