Partners would stamp out the body parts, do the welding and handle the painting, and ship everything to Tesla, where workers would turn the parts into a car.
今天的内容涉及到了一些汽车制造的内容,一般来说一个车厂的所有投资(比如设备,研发等)都是上十亿的,且工艺十分复杂,因此不管是资金还是人力都是需要巨大投资的。下面大家可以感受一下汽车的大概制造流程。汽车工厂通常分为四大车间,分为冲压(Stamping),焊装(Welding),涂装(Painting)和总装(Assembly)四大车间。冲压车间就是把整张的钢板压成不同的形状,这些冲压件在焊装车间被焊接成车身框架,接着到涂装车间就是喷漆上色,最后到总装车间将其他的零部件装配到车身,再进行一系列测试等,一辆车就最终完成下线了。
Words
1.rubust
The laptops are pretty robust.
1.a robust object is strong and not likely to break
同义: sturdy: 例:a robust metal cabinet
2. a robust person is strong and healthy:
a robust man of six feet four
小时候有一个哇哈哈的竞争品牌叫乐百氏,英文就是robust
2.run into
It was an investment that would run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
You use run into when indicating that the cost or amount of something is very great. (费用或数量)高达,达到
例:He said companies should face punitive civil penalties running into millions of pounds.
还有偶遇,陷入困境的意思
3.stumble on
While reading Businessweek, he stumbled on an article about a start-up called Tesla Motors.
stumble on/across/upon something phrasal verb
to find or discover something by chance and unexpectedly 偶然发现,邂逅
同义 come across:
Researchers have stumbled across a drug that may help patients with Parkinson’s disease.
4.blow away
Tesla engineers decided to blow them away by producing two prototype vehicles before the visit.
The guys from Toyota and Daimler were blown away.
The outsider were blown away by their first glimpse of the Tesla factory
这个短语在今天的内容就出现了三次
to make someone feel very surprised, especially about something they like or admire:(想到了一句流行语:我和我的小伙伴都惊呆了)
It just blows me away, the way everyone’s so friendly round here.
Thoughts
Like Steve Jobs before him, Musk is able to think up things that consumers did not even know they wanted.
记得一次听《逻辑思维》,罗胖就问,什么是好的产品?有人说,是消费者想要的产品。
但有时候消费者并不知道自己想要什么!所以一个好的产品应该是这样的:当你摆到消费者面前的时候,他惊喜的说:“这就是我想要的东西!”
其实苹果手机和特斯拉都是这样的产品,在他们出现之前消费者哪里想过手机和汽车能做成这样?
这也是创意和创新的一个思考点:给消费者一个他从没有想到过但一见钟情的产品。
Tesla is a place where we are doing things, not talking about things.
He took a Model S prototype home for a weekend and came back on the Monday asking for around eighty changes.
Either you're trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you're not.