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Weird, I saw people elsewhere in the comments mention heatshrink tubing being substituted with electrical tape.

Definitely does seem like a weird thing to base an article on especially when Tesla does lots of other things wrong.

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> Weird, I saw people elsewhere in the comments mention heatshrink tubing being substituted with electrical tape.

Right, because like I said above, the prevailing paradigm is to skewer Tesla by extrapolating from any available datapoint. So people take "tape" and invent reasons for the tape that don't appear in the article. Some of this isn't the posters' fault, because the article is sensationalized and is clearly trying to lead you to a conclusion about "tape" that it can't make with the simple facts presented.

Which is a media behavior that is, in the auto industry as of right now, almost exclusive to Tesla. No one runs dirt stories about tape on Fords, not because there isn't any (I mean, who knows, but none of would be shocked to read about it) but because even if there was, no one would care.

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It's particularly weird, because the people who're talking about Tesla using tape are the ones saying "it's heat shrink tape, guys, nothing to see here".

Whereas the people reporting the tape are saying it's standard electrical tape, used to hold cracked pieces of plastic together.

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> The admission of willful ignorance here is rather astounding.

> then again I'm ignorant to the dress code or actual temperature of a typical automotive factory

That seems a bit ironic considering you said the above right after suggesting that the tent is actually better than the factory for the purpose.

Anyway, the tape not being used for electrical insulation or wiring protection but rather for structural integrity of certain parts that cracked still doesn't bode well.