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Building a Tesla car: Pit stop or assembly line?

5m · Emily Chang’s Tech Briefing · 28 Mar 20:39

Tesla said it has a plan to produce cars faster and for much cheaper, but it would require the automaker to ditch a 100-year old manufacturing process.

The company is moving toward what it calls an "unboxed" approach to manufacture a $25,000 car. If the EV maker is successful, Tesla said it can cut production costs in half.

For more, KCBS Radio's Holly Quan spoke with Bloomberg's Chester Dawson.

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