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Has anyone done the math on if Tesla will be able to meet future demand without sending supply to 'dealerships' (or other lots?)? I'd imagine a large portion o
by Dwolb 11y ago
Has anyone done the math on if Tesla will be able to meet future demand without sending supply to 'dealerships' (or other lots?)? I'd imagine a large portion of a dealership's cost is in inventory/inventory management. (could be wrong though...)
- toomuchtodo 11y agoBetween Model S demand, Model X demand, and PowerWall oversubscription (the next two years already sold), I don't believe they'll need to consider dealerships for quite a bit.
- vvanders 11y agoThey're built on-demand is there's very little inventory sitting around. Typically the service center here in Portland only has 10-15 on site for delivery. At the pace they make changes to the car it really doesn't make sense for them to manufacture large batches and those not interested in waiting can pick up an inventory/CPO.
- Dwolb 11y agoNot sure it's possible to maintain at production targets. 2014 if I recall, Tesla did ~35k units. That's ~12 cars/ hr if we assume 12 hour work days. Their 2016 target is 100,000 cars or 33 cars per hour by 2016. So for example they'd have to both double their plant capacity then get 50% better at making cars. Seems like a tall order but perhaps doable for a guy like Musk :)
- lsaferite 11y agoFrom what I've been told, the plant they make them at is only fractionally used. I would assume that means there is plenty of room for production line growth if they need to do that.
- akgerber 11y ago'Up to May 2010, NUMMI [now the Tesla plant] built an average of 6000 vehicles a week' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI