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Bangkok Post – Tesla tosses out the assembly line

Tesla vehicles are assembled by robots on a conventional assembly line at its plant in Fremont, California. The EV maker is now working on a radically new approach to producing cars more efficiently and cheaply. (Photo: Reuters)

Tesla Inc has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford.

The company is moving to what it calls an “unboxed” approach, which is more like building Legos than a traditional production line. Instead of a large, rectangular car moving along a linear conveyor belt,…

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