Tesla stopped checking brake Model 3

5 July 2018

Whatever you do for the sake of expediting proceedings

Recently Elon Musk (Elon Musk), the head of Tesla, shared the long awaited news: the company finally went to the production of 5,000 copies of the Model 3 in a week. In fact, the American billionaire promised to achieve this speed build by the end of 2017, however, the "production hell", as Musk himself called it, intervened in the plans and repeatedly postponed the achievement of the cherished figure. Now the problems are solved, and ahead to a bright future. But in this ointment is the fly in the ointment, and not just one.

Earlier it became known that the output of the planned production volumes, "Tesla" had to organize the Assembly of Model 3 is actually in the open field: she set a big tent, where not even the air-conditioning system, where manually collected advanced electric vehicles. Experts believe that such extreme measures Musk decided to whatever was to boast of positive accomplishments to shareholders. But the American media argue that the hand-assembled in a simple tent is not the only emergency method to expedite production.

According to internal sources, Business Insider, Elon Musk ordered to strike the braking test from the list. Previously, all produced electric cars are rolled out on an area where the first accelerated to a certain speed, and then slowed down. This procedure was required to verify the reliability of fastening of wheels and test the brakes. In the end, it is from these components depends primarily on the security of any machine, be it electric, gasoline or hybrid.

Sources inside Tesla has told Business Insider that the verification of the brake system was abolished on June 26. It is assumed that the company has taken such measures to accelerate the production of its most affordable models.

Representatives of the "Tesla" proved to be stingy on the comments. To request Business Insider they just said that Model 3 undergoes a thorough quality check, including testing brakes.

Journalists Business Insider has published some interesting statistics, citing anonymous sources inside the Tesla. If they are correct, that the company intended to release 36 020 instances of Model 3 in the second quarter of 2018, although in reality collected only 28 578 (official data). Internal documents indicate that for the whole of June was released a little less than 11 000 electric car Model 3, that is, less than 2 800 a week. How, then, she managed to accelerate to 5 000 cars a week?

Experts Business Insider suggested that even this figure is fictitious. Supposedly Tesla not only took into account actually made during a week machine, but refurbished from among the collected earlier (the share of scrap on the Assembly line of company is still quite high, so that many electric cars immediately after the Assembly rejected and sent back for revision). It turns out that even if Tesla during the reporting week actually put on the market 5 000 copies of Model 3, this quantity was stranded.