Lol Tesla schooling the car industry on how to make cars? That's never been the case and only marketing talk.

After Musk bought into Tesla, he pushed very hard for fully automated factories, even though everyone said it couldn't be done. Now this isn't just people being negative, they said it couldn't be done because existing car brands already had very highly automated factories at the time. They put in billions each year to improve their factories, but there were issues that were too hard to solve.

But Musk being Musk pushed on anyways and almost destroyed the company. Factories had issues across the board from simple volume, to scheduling, to quality and downtime. And this was with full disregard to safety and hours of the staff working there. In the end they needed to do something or the company would go bust.

So they made a deal with Toyota to basically buy an entire Toyota factory. In the industry Toyota is known as one of the best brands when it comes to this kind of thing. Their factories are highly automated, run like clockwork and produce good quality without a lot of costs. This saved Tesla, allowing them to actually produce cars and not go bust. They started to deliver on volume promises which was desperately needed at the time.

In the end the Toyota partnership was short lived, with Toyota pulling out. But Tesla still has that factory and based the rest of their factories on that one. The push for fully automated factories stopped and for a while it was run like a sane company.

So no Tesla never schooled anybody and were almost destroyed by the effort. But as the saying goes, that isn't a story the Musk fanboys would tell you.

Recently Musk's terrible financial decisions have almost destroyed Tesla and the company will probably be sold within the next 2 years.