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Tesla Produced Over 80,000 Cars In Third Quarter, Beating Estimates (electrek.co)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Tesla has now confirmed the official record production numbers of 80,000 vehicles. The automaker has also confirmed Q3 deliveries of 83,500 vehicles. Yesterday, Electrek reported the production numbers, which Tesla has now confirmed to be exactly 53,239 Model 3 vehicles and 26,903 Model S and X vehicles. Tesla elaborated on the Model 3 production ramp-up: "During Q3, we transitioned Model 3 production from entirely rear wheel drive at the beginning of the quarter to almost entirely dual motor during the last few weeks of the quarter. This added significant complexity, but we successfully executed this transition and ultimately produced more dual motor than rear wheel drive cars in Q3. In the last week of the quarter, we produced over 5,300 Model 3 vehicles, almost all of which were dual motor, meaning that we achieved a production rate of more than 10,000 drive units per week." Tesla delivered a total of 83,500 vehicles during the third quarter: 55,840 Model 3, 14,470 Model S, and 13,190 Model X.
Here's what Tesla had to say about the Model 3 deliveries: "Our Q3 Model 3 deliveries were limited to higher-priced variants, cash/loan transactions, and North American customers only. There remain significant opportunities to grow the addressable market for Model 3 by introducing leasing, standard battery and other lower-priced variants of the car, and by starting international deliveries."
Here's what Tesla had to say about the Model 3 deliveries: "Our Q3 Model 3 deliveries were limited to higher-priced variants, cash/loan transactions, and North American customers only. There remain significant opportunities to grow the addressable market for Model 3 by introducing leasing, standard battery and other lower-priced variants of the car, and by starting international deliveries."
And how much is Tesla paying for all the "positive news" articles on Slashdot the last few days since their stock price plunged?
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...But my 2007 4 cylinder Honda Accord costs me under $1300 to operate per year (not including insurance). How many years would it take me not filling up for $80/month and 2 oil changes/year for ($100) to break even the purchase of a Model 3 plus tax, title, license, and registration?
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And you forgot the $35,0000 model cars.
Let's congratulate them on this milestone. They are now at almost half the production rate of the Ford Model A. If they keep increasing production like this, they may become a major auto company in 85 years.
2007 would be an 11 or 12 year old car. 2007 models hit the "showroom" in summer of 2006 usually.
The economy is running hot right now such that most products are selling above average.
(Since it's likely to come up, as far as the political credit for the economy, the "tax-cut stimulus" did help, but also jacked up debt. It's counter-Keynesian, which is bad my book. Pay down debt during up-times and save the stimuli for slumps.)
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Also, coincidentally, a story came out today about thousands of Tesla Model 3s sitting in parking lots all over the place.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
I have a coworker who is from the former USSR. His take on Tesla is that the current output is gonna suck and warranty repair is going to eat them alive. He tells me that at the end of the fiscal year often factories would be under pressure in the USSR to up their output, and no one wanted what they made (which wasn't actually good quality to begin with).
I have a good friend who just got a Model 3 a few weeks ago. She needs warranty service (not Tesla's fault in this case, a pinecone fell on the car and smashed the roof glass) and can't get an appointment for months. Not sure if this is a lack of spare parts or if they are flooded with warranted work. By the way, she let me drive the car and it is a LOT of fun.
They've wronged our Lord and savior
The Tesla batteries in South Australia are proving more effective than expected as well.
BYD makes more EVs than Tesla does. Zhidou may also.
Tesla *is* the premiere supplier of luxury EVs in the United States.
Wouldn't be surprised if they do it even sooner.
Wouldn't be surprised if you're wrong again.
APK sucked 80,000 trucker dicks last quarter at the glory hole in the Pilot Travel Center off of I81 near his house.