and it does away with having a car (or a rectangular “box”) roll down a traditional assembly line past various stations where parts are added on. What Tesla plans to do instead is assemble ...

(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper ... Wiring and an engine or motors are dropped in along a winding ...

She says this battery issue is more troubling than a simpler assembly line problem, and points out that the head of Tesla's director of battery engineering left to start his own company ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, Musk started head-butting a car at Tesla's Fremont, California, factory this spring after he learned the assembly line would stop when people came too close ...