So I’m seeing this around a little bit lately. One of the things these articles claim is that “65% of the parts are sourced in the USA”. So my question is: Are these parts actually manufactured in the US? Or, are parts made in China, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, etc…, then assembled in the US and claimed to be “sourced” in the US?
Not trying to make this an anti-musk thing or cybertruck-hate thing. I just want to dig into auto industry and Tesla corporate propaganda and see if there’s a hidden truth in it.
as in parts sourced in the US, the ford f150 is 75% made in north America, so probably not.
oh the f-150 was reportedly 90% usa parts in recent years. huh.
There’s a bunch of cars with a lot of domestically made parts around that same percentage.
it doesn’t look like there are very good analyses specifying the difference between manufactured in and assembled in the USA, and Tesla is using their own definitions to measure that anyway.
so between a bunch of other cars having the same or higher “usa-sourced” parts and there being no clear definition for that term, it doesn’t seem likely that any Tesla vehicle can realistically claim that title.
It’s basically matching other vehicles in the same class, if anything.
https://www.cars.com/american-made-index/
The cybertruck isn’t even on this american-made list, but a Honda vehicle is so…