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The challenge, however, is scaling. Musk estimates that achieving a robot manufacturing capacity of one million units per year in 2024—initially at Tesla’s Fremont factory—and expanding to 10 million units in Texas and ultimately over 100 million units, will require an unprecedented ramp-up in production capacity. This entails developing entirely new supply chains and building custom hardware components—no off-the-shelf solutions exist, necessitating in-house production and innovation.