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Tesla has had an extremely difficult time ramping up production of the Model 3. Hopefully they to to 700 cars a day this week. However, getting to the 10,000
by melling 8y ago
Tesla has had an extremely difficult time ramping up production of the Model 3.
Hopefully they to to 700 cars a day this week.
However, getting to the 10,000 cars a week (another doubling) seems impossible unless they add another factory.
- xiphias 8y agoAdding other tents are probably easy, the hard part is slashing the cost of manufacturing to be profitable with $35000/car
- melling 8y agoThe tents are very manual and not efficient: https://www.rt.com/business/431118-tesla-tent-outdated-manufacturing/ https://www.rt.com/business/431118-tesla-tent-outdated-manuf...
- tych0 8y agoThey may very well be, but rt.com is perhaps not the best source.
- compcoffee 8y agoWhy? Because it has "Russia" in its name? Seriously,give it a try. Everything has bias,but RT does a better job covering global stories than most American cable networks. Attacking the source is the weakest form of argument.
- tych0 8y agoBecause it is controlled and funded by the Russian government. There are currently multiple investigations ongoing about the Russian government's undue influence on western media and politics. As for my "argument", there is none. What's in the article may very well be true, I have no opinion on it.
- andygates 8y agoRT is solid propaganda trash, with some neutral stories to sucker useful idiots into thinking they're reputable, and high production values to make it all gleam. If the story is legit, other agencies will cover it too.
- danso 8y agoThat entire article is a compilation of tweets from an anti-Tesla account. There is not even mention of doing a cursory attempt to ask Tesla for comment, or to further interview the Twitter user. And the article has no byline. That is what makes it poor quality journalism.
- _ph_ 8y agoI am pretty sure the few random bits and pieces we see from the production do not deliver an accurate picture how production in the tent runs, especially I have seen at least one picture showing Tesla to set up robots along the tent production line.
- Brotkrumen 8y agoI wouldn't want to make that assumption without further information. If you are right, a lot of highly trained and paid people have made a grave mistake in their throughput estimates and might still be lying about it. On the other hand there could be bottlenecks they know how to solve but are waiting for the tooling to be done.
- nabla9 8y agoWithin last 1.5 years highly trained and paid people have made something like 5-7 large mistakes in their Model 3 throughput estimates in a row already. Few more is not that surprising. They are constantly facing bottlenecks that take them by surprise while they are learning to mass manufacture. Tesla is small volume luxury car maker that attempts to transfer into mass manufacturer with NIH attitude.
- HeadsUpHigh 8y agoTesla has had an insane learning curve to climb. Making a car... just think of how many different subsystems exist. A lot of them could be offloaded to contractors but they chose to do as much in house as possible( which also aligns with Musk's character).
- jcranmer 8y agoTesla's only been making cars for a decade before they started on the Model 3. So it's understandable that they totally need to learn how to make a car, it's just so hard...