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Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s (electrek.co)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Electrek has learned that Tesla already achieved the goal for a new record production with two days still to go before the end of the quarter. As we reported last week, Tesla achieved a new record day of Model 3 production, but it was cutting it close for the quarterly goal. The automaker had been guiding a production of 50,000 to 55,000 Model 3 vehicles for the third quarter. According to a reliable source familiar with Tesla's production, the automaker had a strong week of production and managed to bring the total number Model 3 produced to over 51,000 vehicles. For the first time in months, Tesla was able to produce about 5,000 Model 3 vehicles over seven days. The total production for the week was at around 6,700 vehicles -- bringing the total for the quarter to about 77,400 vehicles. Tesla was able to maintain production of about 1,100 cars per day over four days this week and about 800 Model 3's per day over three of those days. It's one of the highest levels of production that Tesla was ever able to maintain.
Much like Apple Computer way back in the day (1997), the current entity of Tesla is in real bad financial shape. Probably close to default despite all the really hard work on the Model 3. So Musk finds a surefire way to get himself kicked out of the company, via tweet. Company will declare Chapter 11 without him, saving himself from the taint of doing it himself. He focuses on SpaceX for a bit, and then he comes back in a few years like Steve Jobs returning to Apple. Lightened of the debt load, Tesla can become profitable as a going enterprise, and Musk gets to be deified once again.
Oh, and tunnels all over LA.