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What factories are they closing down?

They extended a week long Covid shutdown at the Shanghai by 8 days because of higher rates of covid among workers in China. It got spun into "shutting down factories because of lack of demand" by someone that's neither qualified in finance, nor in the car industry. Because they have an axe to grind.

It gets posted on HN and upvoted to the top because many HN folks hate Tesla and want to spread FUD about it.

Meanwhile, in reality, Tesla has been announcing plans to build a new Mexico plant.

well, it'll be a cold day in hell before I ever buy a Tesla, but on the other hand I drive an '04 Corolla and like the fact that I never have to worry about my car doors opening or not.

If anything, I'm mostly ambivalent about Musk. So not all of us :)

I believe she's referring to Shanghai, which is apparently being shut down for a week.

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