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Elon Musk's magic sauce!

 How does he do it over and over again?

You may think that Tesla is total BS, but it remains that what he has done for the vehicle manufacturing process is as groundbreaking as what Herny Ford did more than 100 years ago.   The assembly of the Cybertruck the use of drive-by-wire technology, means that Musk's team have accelerated and simplified the manufacturing process.   He also recently announced that the new sub-compact electric car will redefine vehicle manufacturing.     There is a reason why Tesla earns between 5,000 and 6,000 dollars per car it manufactures, while Ford, GM and others lose money.    

SpaceX is another example.  This week the company unveiled its new Raptor engine.  The third version, not only is it more powerful, it is lighter and is easier to assemble.   It is also a lot cheaper to manufacture.

SpaceX sold 8 flights to the ISS to NASA for $3.1 billion.   Boeing has so far sunk nearly $8 billion in its rocket and capsule to ferry astronauts to the ISS, and things are not working out.   Blue Origin is still stuck in sub-orbital flights and is unlikely to move away from that side-show until it has access to new engines (Blue Origin and most other private aerospace players rely on the Russian RD-180.   The Russians no longer sell the rockets to American or European companies (only India still gets them).   

It is estimated that SpaceX has reduced the cost of space flight by more than 90%, According to reports SpaceX's objective is to reduce the cost of launch to the cost of propellant...

As for the car industry, Tesla continues to dominate, Elon Musk doesn't consider US or European car manufacturers his competitors, he considers the Chinese as "best in class" with technology and assembly systems.

Possibly the magic sauce is that everyone who matters at SpaceX or Tesla are engineers, and not MBAs and accountants.   It has been telling that Elon Musk stated that he expected his early rockets to fail, in fact, it was a feature to test as many new ideas as possible.  Even today, SpaceX is still contemplating sea landings for the Ultra Heavy rockets, why because SpaceX looked at all the options and all the factors, sure the chopsticks may work great, but maybe not the most efficient way of getting full re-usability...

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