Elon Musk: “We've had to design every electric motor, gearbox and the…”

“We could not actually buy the actuators for any amount of money. They simply didn't exist. Even though there are, are 10, 20,000 electric motors out there of various sizes and shapes, We've had to design every electric motor, gearbox and the controlling electronics from scratch, basically from physics first principles. The good news is you've got a lot of experience with factories over the last couple of decades. So how challenging is this versus Cybertruck, Model Y? Model X gigafactory, you know.” (09:11–09:20)

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