”. Lei’s social-media paean to Musk referred to the Tesla chief executive’s habit of sleeping on the factory floor, when the US electric carmaker was starting to ramp up production of its Model 3 EV in 2018. In February this year, an old video of Musk talking about this habit at a New York conference went viral on social media after a user of X, formerly Twitter , shared a clip with his quote that read: “The reason I slept on the floor was not because I couldn’t go across the road and be at a hotel. It was because I wanted my circumstances to be worse than anyone else at the company. Whenever they felt pain, I wanted mine to be worse.” Xiaomi chief executive Lei Jun and staff commemorate the 100,000th SU7 electric sedan rolled out from the assembly line. Photo: X A 2022 report by US financial news website Business Insider quoted Musk at an industry conference saying: “I was living in the factory in Fremont [California] and the one in Nevada for three years straight … Those were my primary residences.” Advertisement