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> "Groups of new vehicles are being detected in unexplained locations across the country. Evidence being posted online has raised questions about production, lo
by EADGBE 8y ago
> "Groups of new vehicles are being detected in unexplained locations across the country. Evidence being posted online has raised questions about production, logistics, quality and even demand."
This is only news because it's Tesla.
Ford F150's are made near my hometown (Not even the only city making them). So are many versions of the Transit vans. But we're talking like 24/7 droves of trucks and vans logistically being organized and shipped out within a 10 mile area.
Sometimes it requires a staging area.
Sometimes that staging area is a parking lot in a theme park.
Sometimes that staging area is an abandoned field near train tracks. Sometimes that staging area is an overflow lot for a major casino. Either way you look at it, it's weird (Like 400 white identical trucks in the middle of nowhere). Right now, they like to line the trucks up bumper-to-bumper in a weaving-in-and-out fashion with no real rhyme or reason (I think they're bored). I drove by the other day around dusk and a few Ford employees had most of the flashers on in the trucks and were randomly honking the horns.
Most of these vans and trucks have various marks on them and removed beds (Or cabin-only vans). Some already have wraps and stickers for the corporations they're waiting to be delivered to.
This is all very normal car manufacturing. Sorry.
- Latteland 8y agoYeah - I'm in the Seattle area, I read where they were storing their cars before selling them, it was a giant parking lot. I drove over there and saw a couple of 100 cars that were in different stages of being prepared, some ready to go, others with protective wraps. Every 5 minutes a tesla would pull up and 3 or 4 people would get out, walk down an aisle until they found the car they were looking for and drive off to deliver it.
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- tomatotomato37 8y agoI would say the absence of car stockpiles would be more worrying then their presence, because it shows the manufactor is unable to build up buffers for logisitcal difficulties and factory retooling. In other words this is decent news for Tesla because they have the productive capacity to build these stockpiles in the first place
- EADGBE 8y ago> other words this is decent news for Tesla No news is good news, then. Kinda the point I was making. No one's talking about Ford in the papers and their weird inventory methods. :)