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Some companies will literally sell products for less than the cost of the components that go into them.

Sometimes that's a supermarket selling 'loss leaders' to get people into the store where they'll hopefully buy other things - or a games console manufacturer planning to make up the loss because they get paid for every game sold.

Other times a manufacturer wants to hit a promised launch date, and hopes to get manufacturing costs down later. Maybe they haven't had time to set up certain cost-saving automation, or a planned lower-cost component wasn't ready in time for launch. Maybe their widget supplier has promised a lower cost when they're ordering 10,000 a month but right now they're only ordering 500 a month.

Of course, without access to insider information we can only guess if this is really occurring...



> Of course, without access to insider information we can only guess if this is really occurring...

No need to guess, the GP poster confidently stated this:

> Tesla is losing money on every truck sold at this point.

They must be an insider or have reliable insider information.


Of course, this is the only explanation. No one can just make stuff up on the internet. That’s impossible.


> Some companies will literally sell products for less than the cost of the components that go into them.

But that is not what Tesla is doing, is it?




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