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It's always worth noting the disclaimer that Bloomberg has on their tracker: > Given the exponential trajectory of a production ramp up, there may be sudden in
by Shank 8y ago
It's always worth noting the disclaimer that Bloomberg has on their tracker:
> Given the exponential trajectory of a production ramp up, there may be sudden increases in output that this model is slow to catch.
When you're looking at Tesla's numbers, the tracker becomes more reflective of progress several weeks after a production peak. Given that the 5,000 peak was hit relatively recently, this means that we should expect the tracker to reflect this substantially later.
- stefan_ 8y agoIt's triple the labor hours, so you can happily assume a higher production ceteris paribus and it still looks bad.
- jsight 8y agoI'm not sure where you got the idea that it is "triple the labor hours"?
- tomjakubowski 8y ago"At a typical plant run by Toyota Motor Corp., widely seen as the most capable carmaker, a new car requires about 30 hours of labor. Even with all the robots, Tesla spends more than three times that number of hours on each car, says Michelle Hill, a manufacturing expert at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-12/how-tesla-s-model-3-became-elon-musk-s-version-of-hell https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-12/how-tesla...