Admittedly I could be missing something but isn't this pretty sensationalist? Seems like an expected result of a big new venture that doesn't have time to faff about with scaling up slowly and is dumping money into large up front costs that can't be recovered by sales just yet.
But it seems a bit dubious to say that Ford, the company that could fairly claim that it invented modern mass production, is going to have the trouble scaling anything up. Comparing this to Tesla in 2017, by all rights a young company at the time that for years that suffered basic quality control issues while trying to scale, seems disingenuous, right?