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Re: Best analysis of Model 3 to date (German) - per Elon M tweet so that would lead one to believe it is reasonably accurate.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1002270980755013632
https://translate.google.com/transl...inn-abwerfen/22625806.html&edit-text=&act=url
ELECTRIC CAR DISASSEMBLED Tesla Model 3 can throw off profits
EXCLUSIVE
by Stefan Hajek
May 31, 2018
It is the big question in Tesla's hopes: Can the Californians build Model 3 profitably? A German engineering service provider has disassembled a Model 3 and comes to a clear conclusion in the analysis.
Tesla's Model 3 can make a profit. This is the result of a German engineering service provider, who has a Model 3 decomposed to the last screw . The material and delivery costs of the $ 35,000- $ 78,000 car are only around $ 18,000; In addition, according to the calculations of the burglars, who are the WirtschaftsWoche, about $ 10,000 in production costs per car. "If Tesla manages to build the planned 10,000 pieces a week, the Model 3 will deliver a significant positive contribution to earnings," says a test engineer.
The WirtschaftsWoche are minutes of some engineering service providers who have worried and dismantled a Tesla Model 3 from the USA on behalf of German auto companies on the gray market. The sellers are ex-Tesla employees who were able to order a Model 3 early and now sell it at a high profit. The prices on the gray market are at 100,000 to 130,000 dollars.
A total of four Tesla Model 3 have been transferred to information from the WirtschaftsWoche in recent weeks to Germany and disassembled here in the works of competitors. The German Tesla competitors did not just want to investigate some hitherto unclear technical solutions of the expected first over 500,000 pre-orders electric cars for the mass market on the object; they were also interested in revealing its economic calculations.
Another result of the analyzes: Tesla has achieved a breakthrough with scarce battery raw materials. Tesla has obviously succeeded in significantly reducing the share of the notoriously scarce metal cobalt in the batteries of his new Model 3. This is the result of laboratory analyzes exclusively available to WirtschaftsWoche. Cobalt is needed in the cathode of lithium-ion cells; It is considered irreplaceable there. More than 60 percent of the global cobalt deposits are in the civil-war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the cobalt is partly funded by child labor and used to finance warlords.
In the world market, the price of cobalt last tripled within 18 months. Due to the flood of new e-models of numerous car companies, which should come on the market from 2020, the demand for the scarce metal will multiply again. Individual corporations like VW had recently tried to conclude direct delivery contracts with mine operators, but without success.
Battery manufacturers and their suppliers are therefore working hard to develop new cathode materials that use less cobalt. Tesla and his partner Panasonic appear to be ahead of the competition, as previously known: According to the laboratory analyzes leaked to WirtschaftsWoche, the cathodes of the Panasonic cells used in the new Tesla Model 3 consist of only 2.8 percent cobalt. The current state of the art is currently eight percent cobalt. "That would be a significant competitive advantage for Tesla, Kobalt is currently very difficult to get on the world market," says Sven Bauer, head of Germany's largest independent battery producer BMZ.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1002270980755013632
https://translate.google.com/transl...inn-abwerfen/22625806.html&edit-text=&act=url
ELECTRIC CAR DISASSEMBLED Tesla Model 3 can throw off profits
EXCLUSIVE
by Stefan Hajek
May 31, 2018
It is the big question in Tesla's hopes: Can the Californians build Model 3 profitably? A German engineering service provider has disassembled a Model 3 and comes to a clear conclusion in the analysis.
Tesla's Model 3 can make a profit. This is the result of a German engineering service provider, who has a Model 3 decomposed to the last screw . The material and delivery costs of the $ 35,000- $ 78,000 car are only around $ 18,000; In addition, according to the calculations of the burglars, who are the WirtschaftsWoche, about $ 10,000 in production costs per car. "If Tesla manages to build the planned 10,000 pieces a week, the Model 3 will deliver a significant positive contribution to earnings," says a test engineer.
The WirtschaftsWoche are minutes of some engineering service providers who have worried and dismantled a Tesla Model 3 from the USA on behalf of German auto companies on the gray market. The sellers are ex-Tesla employees who were able to order a Model 3 early and now sell it at a high profit. The prices on the gray market are at 100,000 to 130,000 dollars.
A total of four Tesla Model 3 have been transferred to information from the WirtschaftsWoche in recent weeks to Germany and disassembled here in the works of competitors. The German Tesla competitors did not just want to investigate some hitherto unclear technical solutions of the expected first over 500,000 pre-orders electric cars for the mass market on the object; they were also interested in revealing its economic calculations.
Another result of the analyzes: Tesla has achieved a breakthrough with scarce battery raw materials. Tesla has obviously succeeded in significantly reducing the share of the notoriously scarce metal cobalt in the batteries of his new Model 3. This is the result of laboratory analyzes exclusively available to WirtschaftsWoche. Cobalt is needed in the cathode of lithium-ion cells; It is considered irreplaceable there. More than 60 percent of the global cobalt deposits are in the civil-war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the cobalt is partly funded by child labor and used to finance warlords.
In the world market, the price of cobalt last tripled within 18 months. Due to the flood of new e-models of numerous car companies, which should come on the market from 2020, the demand for the scarce metal will multiply again. Individual corporations like VW had recently tried to conclude direct delivery contracts with mine operators, but without success.
Battery manufacturers and their suppliers are therefore working hard to develop new cathode materials that use less cobalt. Tesla and his partner Panasonic appear to be ahead of the competition, as previously known: According to the laboratory analyzes leaked to WirtschaftsWoche, the cathodes of the Panasonic cells used in the new Tesla Model 3 consist of only 2.8 percent cobalt. The current state of the art is currently eight percent cobalt. "That would be a significant competitive advantage for Tesla, Kobalt is currently very difficult to get on the world market," says Sven Bauer, head of Germany's largest independent battery producer BMZ.
