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Lucid CEO says the company didn't know where its own cars were (www.engadget.com)
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The company said it lost sales due to inventory control issues, with CEO Silvio Napoli admitting in an earnings call that sometimes "we did not even know where cars were."

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[–] 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

+1 for honesty, but what the heck?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Doesn't inspire much confidence as a buyer when the people who built the product you're putting your life in the hands of can't even figure out how to keep track of said product before selling it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    People put up with a lot of snafus if the product is good.

    I haven't heard anything about this company's product though.

    That could be a bad thing, if there's no hype for a new product.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    They’ve had teething and software problems. The cars are very nice, fast and efficient, but also very expensive and still under developement.

    I want them to succeed but it’s a rich person car for sure.

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    • [–] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Without reading the article, this sounds like they say they don't have a good inventory control system and don't have full data of where each car is at any moment. Like they don't know exactly how many cars are at each stage of manufacturing and how many were already finished. Not that they lost the cars somewhere and can't find them.

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    [–] 7 points 3 days ago

    Overly complex vehicles that break, they never fixed most software issues and the company is run by dimwits. Might be good reasons they left Tesla.

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    [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    Oh. Unsold cars.

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    [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    If you ever think that what CEOs do is shrouded in mystery and you couldn't ever do that job, just remember this article.

    I don't really have any qualifications to be the CEO of a car company, but I'm pretty sure I could have figured out a way to, you know, NOT misplace the cars.

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