Updated September 8th, 2021 at 14:00 IST
'Our way of life': Anand Mahindra responds to Elon Musk's tweet on car production
While Anand Mahindra and Elon Musk may disagree on a variety of things, they agree on one thing- car production is tough, despite a positive cash flow.
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Elon Musk recently, the Tesla Chief Executive took to Twitter to express the difficulty he is facing and how “hard” it is to produce a car, especially with a “positive cash flow”. Notably, Tesla is the world’s largest electric car manufacturer with an output of 206,421 cars in Q2 of 2021.
On Tuesday, the chairman of the Mahindra Group agreed to Musk’s statement and added that both of them had been doing it for “decades” now. However, he highlighted that despite years of experience, they are still “sweating and slaving” their way into it. “It’s our way of life,” Mahindra tweeted.
You said it, @elonmusk And we’ve been doing that for decades now. Still sweating & slaving away at it. It’s our way of life… https://t.co/EGpcyKrRhF
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra)
While a response from Elon Musk is still awaited, hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to the post to convey their opinion on the same. Many also took the opportunity to demand new models of the cars- both from Mahindra and Tesla. "Good morning both of you sir, I have an idea to create an Air Ambulance cum emergency vehicle for the help of NDRF in case of fire in buildings, flood-affected areas, landslide affected areas to rescue people. This air ambulance can stop in the air like a drone. Rest I share my idea F2F," wrote a user. "Whole contentment comes from a number of jobs you great guys are creating for a number of people. Manufacturing with innovation is hard and hats off to you guys," added another.
@anandmahindra and. @RNTata2000 sir you both are great personality. Both of you have courage to take risk of crores in the business. You faced many failures but never gave up. Sir can't you take a risk of ₹75lacs for me. Even there is no risk for you . Trust me sir . #286days
— Harshu38740271 (@Harshu38740271)
Wonder then how come stock prices keep skyrocketing
— ANIL CHHUGANI (@ANILCHHUGANI)
If you produce by keeping positive cash flow as top priority, it will be hard.
— Dhruvam Thaker (@DhruvamThaker)
But if u produce, by keeping an intention to giving something gud to society which could solve a real life problem in most easiest & cost effective way, you will find cash flow setting right easily!
Citing the zero or low margins of legacy car makers, big car companies make their profits not from the sales of their cars but from the sales of replacement parts like “razors and blades...Well Said
— Manoj K Jha aka Manu 😷 (@manojgjha)
@elonmusk 👌👐💜
@anandmahindra @elonmusk Sir as the mishaps are rising exponentially, we have the best Driver Drowsiness and Distraction Monitoring System which has more features at 1/10th the price of other OEMs but no one is ready to look out coz of mentality of cheaper is of poor quality😔
— Sanidhya Patel (@SanidhyaPatel23)
Special SUVs
Earlier, Mahindra responded to the special request made by the President of the Paralympic Committee of India, Deepa Malik, to the Indian Automobile industry to manufacture special SUVs in India. These SUVs would make the life of people with special abilities a lot easier while travelling by road. Anand Mahindra put out a tweet on Tuesday responding to PCI President.
In the tweet, he assured Malik that he has heard her request and will convey the same to the team at Mahindra Research Valley. He further mentioned companies like TrueAssisTech who have previously done such special modifications to their cars. He concluded the post by wishing the Indian contingent at the Paralympics for a great show ahead.
Image: Pixabay/ANI/AP
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Published September 8th, 2021 at 14:00 IST