THE VIDEO SHELF · tesla manufacturing
Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
Sandy Munro interviews Elon Musk at Boca Chica about Tesla production, mega-castings, seats, structural battery packs and the difficulty of mass production.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as a primary source on Tesla manufacturing and engineering decisions and Musk's grasp of product detail.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Munro Live
- Topic
- tesla manufacturing
- Format
- interview
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 15
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
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Just watch the interview they used as source. Reading these articles is mostly noise and forcing a narrative [VIDEO]
space_rock on Hacker News · 2021-02
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nickik on Hacker News · 2021-03
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nebula8804 on Hacker News · 2023-02
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