Tesla Is Making Over 2,000 Model 3s a Week, Falling Just Short of Its Goal (theverge.com)

According to an email from Elon Musk, Tesla has increased its production of its mass-market electric Model 3 to over 2,000 units per week. "It's an impressive ramp up of production, but it still falls short of Musk's goal of 2,500 Model 3s per week by the end of the first quarter of 2018," reports The Verge. From the report: In the companywide email (which was obtained by Jalopnik, Electrek, and Autonocast host Ed Niedermeyer), Musk sounds a celebratory note on the 2,000-vehicle per week benchmark, while ignoring the larger issue of missed deadlines: "It has been extremely difficult to pass the 2,000 cars per week rate for Model 3, but we are finally there. If things go as planned today, we will comfortably exceed that number over a seven-day period! Moreover, the whole Tesla production system is now on a firm foundation for that output, which means we should be able to exceed a combined Model S, X, and 3 production rate of 4,000 vehicles per week and climbing rapidly. This is already double the pace of 2017! By the end of this year, I believe we will be producing vehicles at least four times faster than last year." With Q1 now behind us, we can expect to see Tesla report its official production numbers to investors sometime this week.

Comments

Re:Over promise

[rtb61]

Well, yeah, everyone knows exactly where the Tesla attacks are coming from. The big automakers advertising departments via ad buys, stories as ads. Especially those eyeing to buy a discounted Tesla. Why develop your own, when you PR department can work with advertisers to target that upstart competitor, try to attack it's credit line and FUD the investors and then buy on discount, all that development work and product line.

So the big makers produce more, out of how many factories, in how many countries and who had to sell of the parts of themselves that they bought, to stave off bankruptcy, even when rescued at tax payer expense.

This without new direct competition out of China and India heating up. There is a idea, to increase production perhaps Tesla should consider a partnership with a automotive company in China, for much, much, much, higher levels of production for regular consumer level entry into the all electric market. So upper end manufacture in the US and more main stream manufacture in China, not necessarily even for the US market, more the international market. Investment would be minimal, Tesla providing the expertise and the China partner supplying the manufacturing, with Tesla supervising quality of production for a base model 3i (i for international).