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The article is a bit confusing. Tesla produced more than 18k cars, but delivered 14k cars. So strictly speaking it was not the production but delivery target th
by _ph_ 10y ago
The article is a bit confusing. Tesla produced more than 18k cars, but delivered 14k cars. So strictly speaking it was not the production but delivery target that got missed. There are some connections of course, if they had managed to ramp up production quicker, delivery could have progressed more. Production rates are said to have hit 2k cars per week in the last weeks.
In any case, this means that about 4k Teslas are currently in transit to their customers. The European Model X deliveries just started, so this would account for a lot of transit time, as shipping (literally!) cars takes it time.
- Waterluvian 10y agoDo they exclude from those numbera cars they produce that don't work off the line?
- _ph_ 10y agoI would assume that to be counted as produced, a car has to have left the factory. In any case the free space inside of the factory puts an upper bound to the number of the cars which require further work after leaving the production line.
- what_ever 10y agoHow about the cars that were on transit from Q1? Did they get counted towards the total in Q2? If yes, then I don't think the article is misleading.
- haser_au 10y agoThe production rate in Q1 was lower than in Q2, so it could be misleading if there are still a number in transit. In any case, the article should be clear on whether they're talking about production rates or delivery rates.
- schiffern 10y agoTesla had 2,615 vehicles in transit at the end of Q1, and 5,150 at the end of Q2. So on net there are still 2,535 cars "missing" from the Q2 delivery number. This chart shows the complete picture: http://i.imgur.com/NgwxG7Z.png http://i.imgur.com/NgwxG7Z.png
- schiffern 10y agoThis. The "decline" is an artifact of the variability in the number of vehicles in transit. http://i.imgur.com/NgwxG7Z.png http://i.imgur.com/NgwxG7Z.png If you just look at deliveries (yellow line) you see the drop, but all the variation comes from the number of vehicles in transit quarter end (red line). Production (blue line) has been a remarkably smooth exponential ramp.