How can Elon Musk make money? Analysts answer after tearing apart Tesla car

Tesla has the advantage when it comes to knowledge from Silicon Valley that other carmakers don't have

The manufacturing analysts who spent 6,600 hours inside a warehouse north of Detroit picking apart a Model 3 have good news and bad news for Tesla Inc. The company now boasts the best technology of any electric car, with potential profit margins that would be the envy of most automakers. But Tesla is squandering that edge with wasted expenses linked to poor design and bloated manufacturing.  

Sandy Munro, the founder of Munro & Associates, a small firm that disassembles new cars piece by piece, concluded that the Model 3 costs about $2,000 more than a similarly-priced BMW i3 and