Tesla Still Trying to Decide Where It Will Build Model Y

Tesla has said its newly-launched Model Y will start being delivered in “Fall 2020,” but the automaker has yet to decide where the all-electric crossover SUV will be built.

Speaking on Tesla’s Q1 2019 earnings call, Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company is still trying to make a “close call” on “whether Model Y vehicle production should be in California or Nevada,” referring the company’s Fremont, Calif. factory or Gigafactory 1 in Sparks, Nev.

Still, other preparations for the Model Y are being made.

“We have ordered all of the tooling and equipment required for Model Y,” Musk said on the earnings call. “So, we don’t expect this in any way to delay production of Model Y.”

The Model Y is built on the same platform as Model 3, with around 70% of the same parts. It’s enough of a manufacturing head start that Tesla seems confident tooling can be installed and production can begin without much trouble, definitely not the “production hell” the company experienced in the early days of the Model 3.

Musk said a final decision is coming “very soon.”

 

[Tobyw]

Why not build in NV? CA is going nuts, what will they do next?! And how is NV work requirement going? Trucking cars to CA will require lots of truck miles to work out truck bugs and establish driving and mfg dependability record while not in public hands.

 

[Tobyw]

Why not build in NV? CA is going nuts, what will they do next?! And how is NV work requirement going? Trucking cars to CA will require lots of truck miles to work out truck bugs and establish driving and mfg dependability record while not in public hands.

 

[Tobyw]

Or you could build in NY, the state would like them for taxis and the cars could be an entrée for Boring Co. tunnels and taxis around Hudson, NYC, Long Island and to replace ailing subways, tunnels, bypass traffic jams. Over $10B is planned, may go to double that with conventional transit. Tunnels need not carry ALL traffic, 5-10-15% reduction in highway traffic may be enough to break traffic jams.

Getting Wall Streeters to and from work in half the time or better would save enough precious time to pay for and finance the beginning projects.

 

[AlMason]

Or you could build in NY, the state would like them for taxis and the cars could be an entrée for Boring Co. tunnels and taxis around Hudson, NYC, Long Island and to replace ailing subways, tunnels, bypass traffic jams. Over $10B is planned, may go to double that with conventional transit. Tunnels need not carry ALL traffic, 5-10-15% reduction in highway traffic may be enough to break traffic jams.

Getting Wall Streeters to and from work in half the time or better would save enough precious time to pay for and finance the beginning projects.

As a New Yorker I can say that Tesla will be as welcome in New York as Amazon was - as in "Not". The politics of this state won't allow it. They could come in and build up some operations slowly as Google and Amazon did, and are slowly expanding, but anything "big" would immediatly be jumped on and dismantled by our progressives

 

[neroden]

Worker shortage in Nevada is extreme. With all Fremont factory tours stopped for factory 'reconfiguration', I think they picked Fremont.

 

[AlMason]

Worker shortage in Nevada is extreme. With all Fremont factory tours stopped for factory 'reconfiguration', I think they picked Fremont.

It's Fremont per a CNBC report on 29 May. Report below:

Tesla is rejiggering its Fremont factory to build the Model Y SUV and a Model S refresh