The comments offer new insight into Tesla’s operations in the days leading up to Musk’s decision to cut costs by laying off employees.
Elon Musk said Tesla’s new plants in Germany and Texas are losing “billions of dollars” as the electric-vehicle maker tries to ramp up production.
The comments, part of a broader discussion filmed on May 31, offer new insight into Tesla’s operations in the days leading up to Mr Musk’s decision to cut costs by laying off employees. The reductions will affect about “This is all going to get fixed real fast, but it requires a lot of attention, and it will take more effort to get this factory to high-volume production than it took to build it in the first place,” Mr Musk said of the Austin factory. Berlin is in a “slightly better position” because Tesla outfitted it to build cars with the 2170 cells, he said.