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Tesla’s Texas, Berlin factories ‘losing billions of dollars’
A scarcity of batteries and China COVID curbs have left the EV maker struggling to ramp up manufacturing, Elon Musk stated.
Tesla Inc’s new automotive factories in Texas and Berlin are “shedding billions of {dollars}” as they battle to extend manufacturing due to a scarcity of batteries and China port points, Chief Govt Elon Musk has stated in an interview.
“Each Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic cash furnaces proper now. Okay? It’s actually like an enormous roaring sound, which is the sound of cash on hearth,” Musk stated in an interview with Tesla Homeowners of Silicon Valley, an official Tesla-recognised membership, in Austin, Texas, on Might 31.
The membership divided its interview with Musk into three components, the final of which was launched on Wednesday.
Musk stated Tesla’s Texas manufacturing unit produces a “tiny” variety of vehicles due to challenges in boosting manufacturing of its new “4680” batteries and as instruments to make its typical 2170 batteries are “caught in port in China.” He added, “That is all going to get mounted actual quick, however it requires lots of consideration.”
He stated its Berlin manufacturing unit is in a “barely higher place” as a result of it began with utilizing the normal 2170 batteries for vehicles constructed there.
In search of ‘to not go bankrupt’
He stated the COVID-19-related shutdowns in Shanghai “have been very, very tough.” The shutdown affected automotive manufacturing not solely at Tesla’s Shanghai manufacturing unit, but in addition at its California plant, which makes use of some automobile components made in China, he stated.
Tesla plans to droop most manufacturing at its Shanghai plant within the first two weeks of July to work on an improve of the positioning to spice up output, based on an inner memo seen by Reuters.
“The previous two years have been an absolute nightmare of provide chain interruptions, one factor after one other, and we’re not out of it but,” Musk stated.
Tesla’s overwhelming concern, he stated, is “How will we maintain the factories working so we are able to pay individuals and never go bankrupt?”
Musk stated early this month he had a “tremendous unhealthy feeling” in regards to the financial system and that the corporate wanted to chop employees by about 10 p.c and “pause all hiring worldwide.” Earlier this week, he stated a ten p.c reduce in salaried employees at Tesla will happen over three months.
Tesla earlier this 12 months began manufacturing on the factories in Berlin and Texas, each of that are crucial to the expansion ambitions of the highest electrical automotive maker.
Musk stated he anticipated Tesla would begin manufacturing of its Cybertruck electrical pick-up vans, which has been delayed, in mid-2023.
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A South Texas town may have just seen the hottest May temperature in Texas history 🥵
While it was hot in San Antonio on Thursday, it was downright sweltering in deep South Texas, where the temperatures were mind-blowing, with several spots jumping above 110 degrees.
Not only was it hot, it was also extremely humid. According to the Weather Prediction Center, La Puerta, Texas, just west of the Rio Grande Valley population center, reached 116 degrees on Thursday. That was easily the hottest place in the country.
It may have set even more records, however. Looking through historical data, the 116-degree reading may have set the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in May in Texas. This will have to be verified. Keep in mind that Texas’s all-time hottest temperature on record is 120 degrees set in Seymour and Monahans.
CITY | TEMPERATURE | DATE |
---|---|---|
SEYMOUR | 120° | 8/12/1936 |
MONAHANS | 120° | 6/28/1994 |
RIO GRANDE VILLAGE | 119° | 6/24/2023 |
QUANNAH | 119° | 6/28/1994 |
GUTHRIE | 119° | 6/28/1994 |
Regardless, the heat yesterday across South Texas was dangerous.
In Brownsville, a record-high temperature of 104 degrees translated to a heat index of 129 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Harlingen reached a peak heat index of 128 degrees, while McAllen’s feels-like temperature peaked at 124 degrees.
Thankfully, a front brought relief on Friday. Cooler and wetter weather is expected over the weekend.
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Texas Music Museum seeks city assistance in finding new home – Austin Monitor
The city may soon explore assistance for the nonprofit Texas Music Museum in East Austin, including finding a new location for the facility that is in danger of losing its East 11th Street home.
On Monday, the Music Commission heard a presentation from Clay Shorkey, president and caretaker of the museum’s thousands of artifacts and displays reflecting more than 100 years of the history of musicians throughout Texas. Shorkey, a retired University of Texas professor of social work who said he pays for the museum’s rent with his Social Security benefits, runs the facility with a handful of volunteers and said it is in desperate need of a larger, climate-controlled space that can better attract visitors.
“I don’t think this gonna happen tomorrow getting a world-class home, but we certainly need a much bigger space,” he said, noting the existing facility has 3,000 square feet of display area and roughly 1,000 square feet of storage space. “We have enough to have a wonderful big museum … and we have the files and the photos and the artifacts and such. We want you to try to help us make Austin a real music capital with a kind of world-class, much better facility than we currently have.”
Commissioners expressed support for finding ways for the city to assist the Texas Music Museum in the short term and long term, with funding from the Creative Space Assistance Program as an option to cover rent or basic improvements to the current space. The museum is also a recipient of funding from Cultural Arts contracts that it uses in part to fund live music performances at its events.
Looking longer term, Commissioner Anne-Charlotte Patterson offered the idea of using some of the space in the rebuilt Austin Convention Center to house the museum, with others suggesting other city real estate holdings as a temporary location until the convention center reopens in 2030.
The group ultimately decided to delay action on the item until its June meeting so a subset of commissioners could work with Shorkey and the rest of the Texas Music Museum board to determine the exact space and budgetary needs, to give City Council a specific request that would be less likely to get lost in other priorities and initiatives.
“I honestly kind of want to take a step back and recommend that we move the discussion of possible action so that no one yells at us from the city,” Commissioner Scott Strickland said, noting the Austin Economic Development Corporation is one of many city entities that could assist with the museum’s needs. “It happens time and time again where we recommend something and it’s a great recommendation and we spend months talking about it … but it just goes into a box of really good ideas, and then no one picks it up.”
While some commissioners suggested the use of creative space bond money to help the museum, Economic Development Department staff noted that the AEDC has already identified the 14 priority projects to possibly use that money for.
In 2017, there was substantial movement at the state level to create a state music museum in the Capitol complex development just north of the state Capitol. The Texas Music Museum was among the dozens of groups from around the state that participated in that effort, which appeared to have full legislative support and funding but was undone over the objections of a handful of other music museums across the state that said a state music facility would reduce their appeal and business interests to tourists.
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