There is no way on god's earth that Tesla can ramp up production like that. I suspect the first cars that they sell will roll off the VP tools and not off the main lines anyway. With a lack of product maturation the quality of the first cars will be appalling too.<p>I'd bet that the guys at the coal face are wanting to kill their PR people right now for making promises that they know will get broken.<p>Disclosure: work in the automotive industry designing high volume production lines and planning vehicle launches.
Not that it means much, but I saw a semi trailer full of new Model 3 on I-80 heading east near Des Moines Iowa today. All of them were black and still had factory wrap on the panels.
So is it likely (or even possible) that TSLA really is the most shorted stock on Earth? I've seen this tossed around repeatedly, although perhaps it's just a rumor.<p>On the other hand,<p>> Tesla said that it's now "rare" for a new Model X to have "initial quality problems." [1]<p>doesn't sound very pretty.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/03/tesla-delivers-22000-vehicles-in-q2-2017.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/03/tesla-delivers-22000-vehicles...</a>
I wonder if Tesla is worried that this new model might cannibalize its more expensive, more profitable model S?<p>Also, I should think that the level of automation required to produce a mass market car on the scale necessary to be profitable would be insane... And I bet Toyota, GM and all the others have patents on many, if not all of these production automation technologies.
Any fellow reservation holders have an idea of when to start expecting our units to roll out? I'm told the #'s are not sequential and correspond to regions instead...