Originally Posted by vfx

If you think about it Tesla would have quite a dilemma on their hands. A wrecked car.

What do they know about repairing bodywork? Carbon fiber bodywork. blending a custom factory two color paint job done in England?

Where are the parts for replacement? What are they called? What are the part numbers? Are they in a book yet? Where do they sit in the warehouse? Who gets them off the shelf and sends them?

Much of this probably was/is not worked out yet.

Worst of all I would imagine would be frame work. They would probably have to find a shop familiar with Lotus aluminum frames and how to repair them. Probably only two in California. Wait in line. And the Tesla frame is actually different than any Lotus so if there is any special jigs needed for stretching/wrenching the body back to straight, they may not even been designed yet. They may even have to fly out someone from the UK to help with the methodology of repair and to set up a repair pipeline.

I'm not surprised that the work is not done and that there is no delivery date yet given. They are on new ground here. On this I give them a break.