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Tesla produced 53,339 vehicles in the most recent quarter. That works out to ~4,444 vehicles per week. Also, the vehicles per week figure is increasing. To be

by jsight 8y ago

Tesla produced 53,339 vehicles in the most recent quarter. That works out to ~4,444 vehicles per week. Also, the vehicles per week figure is increasing. To be fair, they would only produce ~231k/year at this run rate, which would be disappointing for a factory that is capable of ~430k/year. Hopefully their production rate will improve considerably by the end of the year.

adventured 8y ago
The core flaw to most negative comments on HN since the Model S was first announced or produced is: the skeptics pretend there will be zero volume improvement and Tesla is going bankrupt soon. If you remove those two absurdities, their arguments always implode. With the Model S it was routinely claimed that because Tesla got off to a slow production start, that they'd therefore never manufacture the car in any volume. The same ridiculous argument was then wheeled out again for the Model 3. It will be wheeled out for the next model that has a slow production start or production problems. Which points to the obvious conclusion: it's about attacking Tesla, it's not about logic, reason, facts. The Model 3 starts slow on manufacturing. The skeptic says: see, they've failed, it's over, they'll never produce it in volume. The Model 3 weekly production moves up to 500 or 1,000 units. The skeptic says: see, they have no idea what they're doing, they can't produce it any real volume, and besides they're going bankrupt in 1Q19 or sooner anyway. The Model 3 weekly production moves up to 2,500 or 3,000. The skeptic says: yeah but the car sucks, they're building them in tents, and besides they'll never manufacture 5,000 per week, and they're going bankrupt anyway. The Model 3 production moves up to 5,000+ units per week. The skeptic says: yeah, but they'll never make 10,000 per week, and they're still going bankrupt, they can't make money on the car. That's how the Tesla attack, goal post moving has worked thus far. And it'll perpetually continue to work that way, they'll just move on to the next thing to focus on as an attack.
- inteleng 8y ago
  In the long run, the attacks don't matter if Tesla can just ignore them and build the cars.
- threeseed 8y ago
  > The Model 3 production moves up to 5,000+ units per week Do you have evidence that this has happened ? Because from all accounts the 5,000 number was a once-off.
hendzen 8y ago
53,339 vehicles, but only 28,578 Model 3 sedans or ~2.3k per week. The 5k per-week goal is for the Model 3, not all vehicles combined.

by jsight 8y ago

adventured 8y ago

The core flaw to most negative comments on HN since the Model S was first announced or produced is: the skeptics pretend there will be zero volume improvement and Tesla is going bankrupt soon. If you remove those two absurdities, their arguments always implode. With the Model S it was routinely claimed that because Tesla got off to a slow production start, that they'd therefore never manufacture the car in any volume. The same ridiculous argument was then wheeled out again for the Model 3. It will be wheeled out for the next model that has a slow production start or production problems. Which points to the obvious conclusion: it's about attacking Tesla, it's not about logic, reason, facts. The Model 3 starts slow on manufacturing. The skeptic says: see, they've failed, it's over, they'll never produce it in volume. The Model 3 weekly production moves up to 500 or 1,000 units. The skeptic says: see, they have no idea what they're doing, they can't produce it any real volume, and besides they're going bankrupt in 1Q19 or sooner anyway. The Model 3 weekly production moves up to 2,500 or 3,000. The skeptic says: yeah but the car sucks, they're building them in tents, and besides they'll never manufacture 5,000 per week, and they're going bankrupt anyway. The Model 3 production moves up to 5,000+ units per week. The skeptic says: yeah, but they'll never make 10,000 per week, and they're still going bankrupt, they can't make money on the car. That's how the Tesla attack, goal post moving has worked thus far. And it'll perpetually continue to work that way, they'll just move on to the next thing to focus on as an attack.

inteleng 8y ago
In the long run, the attacks don't matter if Tesla can just ignore them and build the cars.
threeseed 8y ago
> The Model 3 production moves up to 5,000+ units per week Do you have evidence that this has happened ? Because from all accounts the 5,000 number was a once-off.

hendzen 8y ago

53,339 vehicles, but only 28,578 Model 3 sedans or ~2.3k per week. The 5k per-week goal is for the Model 3, not all vehicles combined.