There were 400,000+ reservations for Model 3s queued up.
Even after deliveries in last '17 and '18 (LRR, Performance, etc.), I had the impression there will still a couple of hundred thousand reservations left.
Now, the base model is available and it looks like all M3s are available in something like 2-4 weeks.
But I would have thought there would be at least 30 weeks at *full* production -- e.g., 7000 Model 3s per week -- to catch up on the backlog. I know a day 1 reservation holder who will receive his base Model 3 in another 2-3 weeks.
I get it that Tesla may no longer feel like it has to honor reservations in order. But these are reservations that were accompanied by $1K deposits. And even if you don't fulfill them in order, you can't get around having way more orders than you have capacity to fulfill within a few weeks. Unless you don't really have many reservations remaining.
We also know that Tesla hasn't delivered anywhere near 400K Model 3s.
Did 200K reservations simply vanish?
Thanks,
Alan
Even after deliveries in last '17 and '18 (LRR, Performance, etc.), I had the impression there will still a couple of hundred thousand reservations left.
Now, the base model is available and it looks like all M3s are available in something like 2-4 weeks.
But I would have thought there would be at least 30 weeks at *full* production -- e.g., 7000 Model 3s per week -- to catch up on the backlog. I know a day 1 reservation holder who will receive his base Model 3 in another 2-3 weeks.
I get it that Tesla may no longer feel like it has to honor reservations in order. But these are reservations that were accompanied by $1K deposits. And even if you don't fulfill them in order, you can't get around having way more orders than you have capacity to fulfill within a few weeks. Unless you don't really have many reservations remaining.
We also know that Tesla hasn't delivered anywhere near 400K Model 3s.
Did 200K reservations simply vanish?
Thanks,
Alan