Tesla is still out on the level of production of 5 000 Model 3 in a week

3 July 2018

But it forced employees to work in a tent under the open sky

It has been a year the whole world is discussing the problems with the start of serial production of "affordable" electric car Tesla Model 3. The final version of this model was presented last July, then was released the first copies. However the plant a long time could not reach the planned capacity. Only now Tesla was able to solve their problems.

Elon Musk (Elon Musk), the head of Tesla, was going to reach the level of production of 5 000 copies of Model 3 in the fourth quarter of 2018. However, this goal time after time eluded him, the deadlines are always postponed, and the Musk complained in the "Twitter" on "production hell". Experts assumed that the entrepreneur will not be able to fulfill their promises due to the fact that Tesla earlier simply did not face with such task: it released the Model S and Model X are relatively small numbers. And so it happened.

Now the company is still out on the level of production of 5, 000 Model 3 electric vehicles per week. Total amount of the issue subject to the more expensive Model S and Model X has reached 7 000 a week. Here's what he said about this Mask in a letter to its employees: "We did it! What an incredible job was done by our wonderful team. I am proud to work with you. It's an honor. The level of dedication and creativity was breathtaking. We either found a way or by the will and ingenuity of the created completely new solutions that were deemed impossible".

Musk believes that achieving the earlier target, albeit with a six-month delay, will allow the company not only to reduce the losses and reach profitability. According to the calculations of the American businessman, this will happen in the second half of 2018. To create a "positive cash flow", and other useful tools, including increasing the margins Tesla Model 3. This can be carried out by presenting new options, including a twin-engine version of the electric car and a white interior.

Newly issued Tesla Model 3

While maintaining the announced level of production at 7,000 cars per year Tesla for a year can collect more than 350 000 electric vehicles that is unprecedented by the standards of electric cars.

However, by the standards of the automotive industry in General to achieve the "Tesla" doesn't look so impressive. Recently, the network appeared the makeshift dispute Mark Truby (Mark Truby), Vice-President of Ford communications with Elon Musk. It all started with the fact that in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the head of Tesla had to tell about the so-called "production tent": next to the main plant in California was broken big tent, where employees manually assemble the Tesla Model 3. It is reported that about 20% of 5 000 copies of Model 3 over the past week were collected in this tent.

Some experts compare this method of production since the stone age: the absence of a proper pipeline and low working conditions (people working literally in the open air, there is even no ventilation) suggests that the only reason for the creation of this design is the inability of the Mask to achieve the promised performance in a civilized way.

The same "production tent"

While the questions of the Wall Street Journal with respect to such backward methods of production, Musk said in his characteristic manner: "I feel good. I think there is a good atmosphere and good energy. Go to the Ford factory, it's like the morgue.".

Such an aggressive attack in the direction of the "Blue oval" could not be answered. However, Ford spokesman mark Truby behaved more intelligently: he appealed to facts, not emotions. a "Without a doubt, this tent has its own extraordinary atmosphere. But just across the street is the plant from which every 53 seconds. leaves high-tech F-150" — said Mr Truby.

In the words of the worker of deceit no Ford: F-150 really is the most advanced and widespread pickup of the present. Launched in 2014, the new generation is the first in the industry to get a fully aluminum body. Later on Ford F-150 started to install advanced 10-speed "automatic". Also the manufacturer constantly updates the engines (mostly gasoline turbo engine volume of 2.7 liters and 3.5), making them more powerful and economical. In total for 2017, it sold nearly 900,000 pickup trucks F-Series (this includes older models like F-250, F-350 and so on, but the main circulation is accounted for by F-150). Ford pickups remain the absolute bestsellers of the US for more than three decades. 

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