Well... I have no faith in
Well... I have no faith in that website, that it is saying truthful things. The most recent posting there has a number of factual errors:
e.g. "This was a ready-to-go car factory. There should have been no learning curve, no “build-a-new-car factory” delays ... " ... this is incorrect. At the time of the sale I looked into the specifics of the purchase agreement, and Toyota sold them a building and not the equipment inside the building. Toyota apparently held an auction to sell off the equipment. And in any case, Tesla's all-aluminum manufacturing would be unlikely to be compatible with Toyota's equipment.
Also the factory was a JV between GM and Toyota. GM pulled out, leaving Toyota to hold the full cost of running the place, and leaving Toyota little choice but to close it down. So for example ...
"So Musk got it and fired all of the car builders." This is incorrect. By the time Musk got the place, all the workers had already been laid off by Toyota. There was a worker re-education site across the street from the factory that processed the former NUMMI workers. Since reopening the plant Tesla has been working on rehiring and retraining the former NUMMI workers.
"255 CARS!!!" -- What Musk announced yesterday was 389 (or so) cars, and that they'd manufactured the 500th body. Also they keep posting pictures of roboticized assembly gizmos.
"In a 500,000 car capacity ready-to-go, state-of-the-art car factory after spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars for a factory that GM AND Toyota had already tuned up..." ...
First .. to expect Tesla to go from 0 to 500,000 manufacturing base in one go is completely ridiculous. Especially for an expensive car targeted at the 1-2% crowd.
Second .. It was not a ready-to-go factory because Toyota did not sell the equipment to Tesla, just the building.
In other words - that blog appears to be focused on innuendo and not fact.