reported Monday that Ford, General Motors and Tesla are months away from being able to convert their factories into medical supply production facilities.
On Sunday, the president tweeted: “Ford, General Motors and Tesla are being given the go ahead to make ventilators and other metal products, FAST! @fema Go for it auto execs, lets see how good you are?”
More alarmingly, he said, “General Motors, Ford, so many companies — I had three calls yesterday directly, without having to institute like: ‘You will do this’ — these companies are making them right now.” Neither Ford nor General Motors is making ventilators right now, and while Tesla’s Elon Musk has said his company is “working on it,” there’s no evidence to suggest that production is underway, and it could take months to get there, according to the AP report.
“It’s going to be a substantial pivot to start producing an entirely different item,” Kaitlin Wowak, a professor focusing on industrial supply chains, told the AP. And, even if a pivot to producing ventilators were feasible, none of these companies would require Trump’s go-ahead to begin work. According to the AP, GM has announced a partnership with Ventec Life Systems, to increase ventilator production, but did not indicate that any GM factories would be repurposed for this use.
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