> Toyota and VW shipped 10 million cars worldwide last year without any logistics issues. Hell, most companies are able to ship their products without any contr

> Toyota and VW shipped 10 million cars worldwide last year without any logistics issues. Hell, most companies are able to ship their products without any controllable logistics issues. These companies are shipping with more or less established infrastructure and supply chains that have been optimized over decades. Tesla has been building almost all of its infrastructure and supply chain from scratch (batteries, supercharger networks, software tech, etc.), while also getting cars delivered. And breaking tons of new ground in almost every area of automotive tech. (You can argue that Torota and VW build infrastructure too, but almost all of it is incremental, and almost none of it is groundbreaking.) > Why does Tesla get a pass for failing to do something that every other manufacturer gets right? Nobody's giving them a pass. It just seems unreasonable to draw conclusions without understanding the entire context.