Also, at this point in time, something around 110,000 Teslas have been produced (recalls not included, I’m biased because I got t-boned by one). I’m not sure on Ford’s numbers, but to produce their 2015 output, they needed something around $150 bn, after being bailed out and with dropping market percentages.

Hanford, Oregon, when it was at peak production of nuclear material, was at somewhere in the range of 586 square miles total with 14,450 employees. After the whole of the Manhattan project came online, it employed ~130,000 employees and cost $26 billion dollars in 2016 terms of production. The fact that a private…