simonizr
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- Greg
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"Which is correct champing or chomping at the bit?not letting this increasingly rare instance of the correct phraseology go unrewarded
*slow clap*
I say they'll start production on May 08, 2023 because, why not?So if I’m ~284,000th in line, when can I realistically expect to have Tesla have me sign the purchase contract? Late 2024?
Or they arrive neatly stacked from vendor(s).There would be sample exoskeletons littering the landscape…but you are right.
The fact is Tesla has all the same flexibility advantages doing it in house plus what they have learned in SpaceX with how to best fabricate with the stainless they have formulated.Or they arrive neatly stacked from vendor(s).
Likely? Not based on simple past analogy to stamped parts.
But I would gently suggest that it's worth thinking about how different a non-painted laser-cut bent component is from a stamped fender.
If I was a stainless vendor, along with Tesla's custom stainless formulation I'd also bid on laser cutting and bending the parts.
I'd do this because:
1. Being laser cut, it does not require (nor benefit from) an expensive commitment to dedicated tooling. Tesla can send a new design file and immediately change the spec. Remember, Tesla frequently vertically integrates to preserve speed and change control. There is no control or change speed benefit to them for doing it themselves here in this situation. Especially if I'm already in Texas. CO2 and fiber lasers are easy to set up, and I'd be perfectly happy to buy and maintain them, since they could serve any of my customers, not just Tesla.
2. As the vendor I'd always be seeking value-add to promote stickiness of the account, even I needed to price aggressively.
3. I would promote the service as being "the most efficient path from roll to part." Why ship scrap? Just ship the parts, and recycle the scrap on site.
4. I would provide space for Tesla engineers to be present for design iterations on the interaction between material (composition, cutting, temper, forming) and final result. In addition to dimension, I would certify appearance. "Every part arrives in showroom condition."
5. Being the material vendor would allow me to more economically recycle obsolete parts in inventory when changes are introduced midstream, while still allowing safety stock to be accumulated at relatively low risk.
Well, that's what I would do if I were selling to Tesla. Just interesting to think about.
A lot of really good points, but I have some quibbles.Or they arrive neatly stacked from vendor(s).
Plus, Elon might be just a tad of a control freak...I think Tesla is making the truck bodies in house. Just the shipping concerns are a pretty big deal.
and “irregardless” has been added to the dictionary for similar reasons!"Which is correct champing or chomping at the bit?
The original phrase is, indeed, champing at the bit, but chomping at the bit emerged in America in the 1930s according to the Oxford English Dictionary and chomp has overtaken champ in common use. A Google web search for chomping at the bit returns about twice as many results as a search for champing at the bit."
I speak 'Merican
I don’t commonly use either phrase, but you made me curious. WTF does “Champing” even mean??and “irregardless” has been added to the dictionary for similar reasons!
but don’t let your source’s reference to 1930 fool you into thinking you’re joining a long, historical tradition:
more like Boomers had no clue what equines are, then infected further generations
Having been bitten by a horse more times than I'd like to admit, I would definitely describe it as a "chomp"I don’t commonly use either phrase, but you made me curious. WTF does “Champing” even mean??
Umm…. Yeah.
and “irregardless” has been added to the dictionary for similar reasons!
but don’t let your source’s reference to 1930 fool you into thinking you’re joining a long, historical tradition:
more like Boomers had no clue what equines are, then infected further generations