Gizmotoy
Active Member
They've been supply-constrained in the past, with the number of Model S being produced essentially equal to the number of batteries they could source. Especially early on they were averse to replacing customer batteries unless they truly had to as every replaced battery reduced the number of cars they could produce by one (and is one of the reasons why a few unlucky customers got new A packs well into the B/D release window). That's eased, now.If they are retooling to increase production capacity, does that mean if a vehicle is ordered now it will arrive much sooner than the estimated delivery frame? (The current estimate of late October)
Supply won't magically increase with the retooling, but perhaps they were getting close to the point where the bottleneck was on their end rather than the battery supplier's.
That, or straightening out the line at the same time as ramping up the X line just made sense. Or perhaps both.
Pretty cool, no matter what the reason.