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They will bring this manufacturing process and new rear body structure to the 3 for sure but it won’t be until they seriously ramp up Y and can afford to shut d
by mcot2 6y ago
They will bring this manufacturing process and new rear body structure to the 3 for sure but it won’t be until they seriously ramp up Y and can afford to shut down the 3 lines for retooling. My best estimate would be no earlier than Q1 2021. They have an aggressive goal to hit 500,000 total deliveries in 2020 and they can’t afford any downtime on the 3 lines to hit that goal.
- grecy 6y agoThey'll also bring new manufacturing processes to their new factories. Musk said on the latest earnings call that new factories are building "better cars" with all the latest enhancements. So while Fremont might keep making "original" model 3, I think it's likely other new factories will skip straight to the new processes. So for example the factory in Berlin will just start with a monster press like this on day 1, so all Model Y built there will automatically have the "new" design. Same for the Model 3 and Model Y lines in Texas.