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    Elon Musk Is Repurposing Tesla Factories to Make Hospital Ventilators

    Will they be as successful as his submarine for the Thai cave kids?

    What is the right thing for an innovative billionaire to do in the time of a pandemic? In the case of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the answer is temporarily repurpose his electric vehicle and solar panel factories into assembly lines for hospital ventilators that are currently in short supply across the country.
    In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Musk said that Tesla’s Gigafactory in Buffalo, New York, will start producing ventilators “as soon as humanly possible. We will do anything in our power to help the citizens of New York.”



    Musk is a man of the times—at the current moment he sees the need to make ventilators, an essential piece of equipment needed to treat severe COVID-19 patients, far more urgent than the need to manufacture electric vehicles.
    On Tuesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said New York currently has access to roughly 6,000 ventilators and that, if the virus keeps spreading at the current speed, the state would eventually need as many as 37,000 of them.
    “New York State is the most impacted state in the nation,” state assemblyman Sean Ryan wrote in a letter earlier this week, urging Musk to start making ventilators at the Buffalo plant, according to local newspaper, The Buffalo News. “It makes sense that increased ventilator production would happen here to ensure we can meet the growing demand of our health care system.”
    Tesla has already started producing ventilators in its Fremont, Calif., factory in collaboration with the medical supply company Medtronic. Tesla is utilizing its HVAC [Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning] capacity to manufacture one of Medtronic’s lower-end ventilators, which are easier to produce in an off-site facility than more sophisticated models.
    Earlier this week, Musk donated 1,255 ventilators—which he said he’d bought from “an oversupply” in China—to hospitals in California, where Tesla is headquartered.
    The Tesla CEO has been fast at moving face masks, too, another essential medical resource in short supply.
    Last week, he sent a truckload of 50,000 N95 face masks from Fremont to the home of a doctor working for the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) in Seattle shortly after learning that there’s a shortage of face masks in the area. The shipment was so expedient that its recipient, Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, had a hard time making room for the boxes when they arrived.
    “It was just so, so fast,” Adams Waldorf told The Seattle Times.“I feel so, so good about being a small part of these donations. To be at this critical shortage of personal protective equipment is frightening. We can’t have our health-care system crumbling at this moment.”

    https://observer.com/2020/03/elon-musk-tesla-buffalo-factory-make-ventilator-coronavirus/



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    Your headache feels good to an aspirin salesman...coronavirus might be from comforting to a lifesaver for Musk and Tesla.

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    Somewhere in basement in Portland, a lone figure cheers on the spreading epidemic, knowing that this is another excuse he can use to say "it's not been delivered yet, there are delays in production".

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    Meanwhile Tesla stock hovers above $700.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Takeovers View Post
    Meanwhile Tesla stock hovers above $700.

    Yep "The Electric Jesus" is no fool when it comes to keeping his share price high

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    Quote Originally Posted by pseudolus View Post
    Somewhere in basement
    You seem to have a massive hard-on for bsnub, mentioning in fairly well every single post of yours

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    Quote Originally Posted by Takeovers View Post
    Meanwhile Tesla stock hovers above $700.
    Always been a wonder to me how Tesla stock can perform so well while the company haemorrhages money.

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    ^A lot of the business (Space X, especially) Musk does is for the US military, and thus is under the "national security" blanket. Guy is a front man for the world elite, same as Gates and Soros.
    Please Don't Entrust Our National Security to SpaceX & Elon Musk

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    You seem to have a massive hard-on for bsnub, mentioning in fairly well every single post of yours
    Gay stalker innit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Gay stalker innit.
    Certainly seems like it . . . first Buttplug and now this guy . . . lucky bsnub

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    Always been a wonder to me how Tesla stock can perform so well while the company haemorrhages money.

    They don't. The last two quarters had substantial earnings. Probably continuing in the upcoming earnings cal for first quarter 2020 despite the Corona problems. All while they massively invest into expansion in China, in Germany and a new factory in the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    You seem to have a massive hard-on for bsnub, mentioning in fairly well every single post of yours
    now that coming from you is very funny

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    now that coming from you is very funny
    Says my very own fat Belgian stalker . . . you don't see the irony (and stupidity) of your post, do you chubby.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    you don't see the irony (and stupidity) of your post, do you chubby.
    How anybody can see what only you can... (with your English as the 3rd language only?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    How anybody can see what only you can... (with your English as the 3rd language only?)
    How can one see a language? You do try too hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Gay stalker innit.
    So says mister "mid sized" penis

    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    You seem to have a massive hard-on for bsnub, mentioning in fairly well every single post of yours
    Fair comment. I only popped back in because I walked past a building on my walk to work, 7.30am, glanced through a window and saw an dishevelled portly trampish man watching porn masturbating. Instinctively I said "heh up Snub" and that reminded me to pop back and say hi to him.

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