Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals (wsj.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source): Tesla badly missed its goal of building 1,500 Model 3 cars in the third quarter, the first sign that the production ramp-up for the new sedan isn't going as smoothly as planned. The Silicon Valley electric-car maker built 260 of the Model 3s between July and September, the company said Monday in a statement. In August, the auto maker predicted it would build more than 1,500 Model 3s before cranking up production to 5,000 a week by the end of the fourth quarter. Tesla blamed "production bottlenecks" for the weaker production. "It is important to emphasize that there are no fundamental issues with the Model 3 production or supply chain," Tesla said in a statement. "We understand what needs to be fixed and we are confident of addressing the manufacturing bottleneck issues in the near-term."

Comments

Re:Can someone please explain?

[jemmyw]

I was in Denmark when it happened. The sales may have dropped to zero after, but they were artificially high for months running up to date because everyone was buying before the subsidy was removed.

Re:Sounds like training

[Rei]

How did you miss the fact that there have been deliveries going on for months? Did you not even read the headline, let alone the summary, let alone the article?

People with vehicles are already taking and posting videos, chatting on the Tesla forums, etc. And the general reaction is, although there's some features yet to come on the touchscreen (thank you, over-the-air updates!), the car is amazing. One person, when asked whether it was fun to drive, simply posted a picture of black sticky stuff splattered across their wheel wells with words along the lines of "That's not road tar ;)" and "I'll be lucky if these tires last 2000 miles"

The first delivery was 30 vehicles. The next month was supposed to be 100, then 300, then 1500. However, they're only up to around 250-ish, by the vin count. More and more people on the forums however, keep getting notified of their delivery dates, so it's exciting to watch :)

Re: But but but but

[Rei]

Heck, most people's delivery dates are a three-month window. Mine (Europe) is very nonspecific "late 2018" ;) It actually got moved forward from "early 2019" ;)