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Like many, I pass the Tesla plant on my way to work. When Model 3 shipping was underway, their output lot was full and car carriers were constantly loading. I
by cjensen 8y ago
Like many, I pass the Tesla plant on my way to work. When Model 3 shipping was underway, their output lot was full and car carriers were constantly loading.
I noticed a change (which may have been there awhile without me noticing) a few days ago that the output lot is nearly empty and only a few carriers were loading. There's also a ton of empty carriers sitting idle on a nearby street.
Maybe Tesla now has shipping under control and efficient. Or maybe they've finally worked through the Model 3 backlog. Or maybe the showrooms have too much backlog of deliveries and they can't take any more. Or any number of things.
It's odd.
- vl 8y agoThey did a massive sale push at the end of the year due to expiration of federal tax credit. A lot of people who considered ordering, ordered back then, so naturally now there should be a cool off.
- davidgould 8y agoIt might be because they just sent two shiploads of cars to the EU, several thousand cars each, so that might affect the output lot and the carriers since they only had to go to SF to be loaded on to the ships.
- alaskamiller 8y agoI have a place right next to the factory road outlet for about 3 years and have been counting output. Since then I've also worked at an office park nearby where Tesla booked up the empty park next to us to use for holding staging. That's where they're starting to put the vehicles now.