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Then it's dead out of the gate, almost every trucking company in existence does in house repairs due to cost.
by nwmcsween 9y ago
Then it's dead out of the gate, almost every trucking company in existence does in house repairs due to cost.
- colordrops 9y agoTesla's gonna be the trucking company before too long.
- abalone 9y agoTesla is promising massive cost savings over traditional diesel trucks, so that might change the service equation.
- coldsauce 9y agoThe majority of trucking companies aren't big enough to be able to have in house shops.
- davnn 9y agoNot source checked but it appears that 96% of trucking companies have 28 trucks or less and 82% operate with less than 6 trucks. http://www.truckingoffice.com/2012/interesting-trucking-industry-statistics http://www.truckingoffice.com/2012/interesting-trucking-indu...
- nwmcsween 9y agoDefine big enough, even owner/operators generally do their own servicing and repairs.
- aerovistae 9y agoCall me a fanboy, but something tells me that the guy who built a revolutionary space program from scratch while successfully running a revolutionary auto company, probably has some ability to think things through pretty comprehensively from all angles and plan effectively for what's needed. Do you think you've just pointed out something that never occurred to him? Do you think if you could share your comments with him, he would stop and stare at you blankly and say "Shit. You're right." You haven't just deflated the plan behind this entire, multi-year undertaking with your 5-minute analysis, as if you know more than all the engineers working at Tesla. The tone you're taking is just ridiculous.
- hilbertseries 9y ago>think things through pretty comprehensively from all angles and plan effectively for what's needed. Is that why model 3 production is going so well?
- colordrops 9y agoI've seen dozens of them around LA. Give it a few months and if it doesn't ramp then there might be a problem.
- aerovistae 9y agoPretty sure Model 3 production is going amazingly well, yeah. Astoundingly well. But the media's portrayal of it has people convinced otherwise. Let's try this perspective instead: "Decade-old electric car company moves up plan for mass production of new affordable long-range sedan by 2 years" And then ask ourselves, after moving it up by 2 years, does a 3-month delay mean "things are going badly"? If I say I'm going to leap 500 feet, and then I leap 450 feet, do you say I failed?
- baq 9y agoyou over-promised and under-delivered, in that sense you failed. does it matter though?
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- csomar 9y agoI suspect trucking companies will get massively disrupted if trucks are driving themselves. Little reason for Google/Apple/Tesla to have them around.