Tesla Is Halting Model 3 Production Yet Again To Fix Problems
Tesla is halting Model 3 production yet again to try to tackle problems along the assembly line, it has emerged.
Starting today, Tesla is stopping the line for up to five days to remedy the problems that are still keeping production at a relative snail’s pace. It comes just a couple of weeks after the line hit a 2000-car weekly output for the first time.
Tesla still wants to be building 5000 cars every week by the end of June, and rates the latest factory halt as essential to achieving that. Workers, who were recently offered overtime to help ramp-up Model 3 build rates, will stay at home without pay or use paid holiday. A small number have been retained in the Fremont building on other work.
This news will not help Tesla’s rumoured cash-burning status, or do much to ease the criticism over shoddy build quality. Perhaps this time the engineers will finally get it right… or perhaps not. It surely has to happen eventually.
Source: Buzzfeed via the New York Times
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Oh no! not again i’m so sad now 😂
Ooof
This is what happens when you over-hype a relatively good concept, rush the product just to make it seem like you “know what you are doing”. If you don’t get rid of bugs in the planning stage, things will not look so great in the long run.
I mean isnt the model 3 the first to use the tesla mega factory?
Do you know any car that Is fully assembled by robots? They stop producing to upgrade line probably like any other manufacturer.. They upgrade so they fix problems and produce more.
I guess they were too busy launching rockets
Best comments of the week for sure
We still got this…
The breathtaking battle Tesla vs build quality continues.
Honestly this looks like another Space Shuttle Challenger or Boeing 787 in the making. Overhyped by marketing, people start to lose interests due to massive delays, rushed production and development in response which causes flaws and could result in mass consequences.
The 787 is still okay, I’d rather compare it to the F-35, even if there is a lot of differences between both situations.
Hmm? What’s wrong with the 787? The -9 is in service already.
What’s wrong with the 787? We have atleast 30 in Service here in Norway
Can’t wait for another same news
This Tesla is basically an iPhone. They always happen to make ‘updates’ that always has problems.
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