My main concern is that initial quality issues on early units may not be addressed as well as they were for S/X. When the ramp happens this quickly, early issues may be seen in much larger numbers than Tesla is used to. They may also over-focus on deliveries of newer units instead of cleanup. Perhaps the expanded ranger programs can help with this.
In my experience in factory production, the pace of trouble-shooting is usually dependent on the pace of production. Identifying issues such as production variability requires data, and verifying fixes requires data. You can only debug if you're making the product. People tend to think "Tesla can only make thousands of cars when they fix the problem". The way I look at it, is that the sooner Tesla makes the 1st few thousands of cars, they sooner these 1000s of cars will enable Tesla to fix any potential issues. So I'm encouraged to see them aiming for 1500 in Sep. Compared with MX, where launch was end of Sep, and delivery of 1000s of cars didn't happen until Jan, this is a much better pace, and promising sign that Tesla can get the production running smoothly soon.
I don't know about AWD for Cali, but agree with performance. I think a lot of folks will forgo AWD to get it quicker where it never snows.
I live in Colorado and I hate the iPad on a stick. Still going to take the first spot I'm offered, AWD or no AWD.
In the Q&A during the last stockholder meeting, Elon said the configurator would open with first deliveries, so July 28th.
I don't understand your point. All I said was that people that were there a month ago said the line was not completed and it was still being worked on. That was in response to you questioning what they'd been doing for the last month. I don't know what speculation you're referring to.
Let me be clearer. The same people SAID that there were mobs of people installing the robots and production line. From the 1st week in June to the last week in July...they could finish.
I am prone to give Tesla the benefit of the doubt. Still, two weeks ago there was no evidence of a completed installation of robots and other gear needed for the M3 line. They could be doing a fair amount of hand work at low volumes, but rampup will demand all those robots installed and working. I have no idea how quickly they can do all that but I think it is more prudent to expect 2018 as the blowout year last half of 2017 to be well below our dreams. FWIW, I expect my Florida M3 sometime mid-2018.
Heh, it fixes the parking problem if employee cars are inside for QA checks instead of in the front parking lot.
When your initial timeline was "late 2017" and then you set an "impossible deadline" for suppliers as July 1st, 2017. Which even Elon thought was impossible a year ago. Now, they are ready to start production in early July instead of late 2017 and you say the ahead of schedule thing is laughable?
