{"id":387683,"date":"2020-04-06T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=387683"},"modified":"2020-04-06T07:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:56:30","slug":"tesla-shows-ventilator-prototype-made-from-car-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/387683\/tesla-shows-ventilator-prototype-made-from-car-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla shows ventilator prototype made from car parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc engineers showed footage of a prototype ventilator the company is trying to make with auto parts amid a shortage of the machines for coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n<p>According to the video on Tesla\u2019s YouTube channel, the design includes a touch screen, computer and control system from a Model 3 electric car.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is taking advantage of components that are familiar, reliable and available, an engineer says in the video.<\/p>\n<p>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, among those urgently trying to source more ventilators, said Sunday that supply-chain disruption is the biggest hurdle for every manufacturer, including Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir timeframe frankly doesn\u2019t work for our immediate apex,\u201c he said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody can make you a ventilator right now in two weeks. You can\u2019t make ventilators that fast because there are parts that have to come from other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zZbDg24dfN0\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/386047\/what-does-life-after-lockdown-look-like-for-business-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What does life after lockdown look like for business in South Africa?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc engineers showed footage of a prototype ventilator the company is trying to make with auto parts amid a shortage of the machines for coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":387691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,6118],"class_list":["post-387683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387695,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387683\/revisions\/387695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}