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Haven't read the article, but I am going to say it's a bad alloy combined with salt in the air, salt on the roads combined with galvanic corrosion. I'll edit my post after I read this....
Edit: It's the deadly chromium layer not being wrapped in a $5000 clear coat.
They didn't do a clear coat like everything else ever made lol.
That was musks selling point for production, he said by skipping the paint booth they saved X amount of time, materials and money by going with plain untreated stainless
They could have saved even more by not putting batteries in them, or motors... Man, these things coulda had a way bigger profit margin!
Say you're only running off 100 of them and charge $1,000,000. They'll all be sold. Ferrari perfected this business model long ago.