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> With tesla, everything has to come from California. Weird to say the least. Normal car shops get spare parts at least once a day, bigger car shops even sever

• londons_explore 7y ago
  Either the logistics system is terrible, or there is a shortage of that part. I'd imagine both. Tesla's logistics seem to 'lose' cars on a regular basis, and I doubt they have a much better process for parts. I bet rather than a nice automated logistics and inventory management system they have a bunch of people with phones and spreadsheets. They also probably have production issues with parts. Simply saying "produce 5 percent additional parts for repairs" is hugely expensive, and not normally doesn't actually solve the problem. Some parts are far more likely to fail than others, and you can't really be sure beforehand. Oh - that part which is likely to fail? Do you want to put a big order in and make a bunch more to cover repairs, or do you want to stop production entirely, get an engineer to redesign the part, retool to make the new part, and restart production, with a slow ramp up? And now that you've had some downtime, are you going to prioritize new cars or repairs?