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0 pointsurda8y ago0 comments

Preface: I don't have any stake in Tesla's success or products.

If I was a consumer sitting on a Model 3 reservation I would be pissed that they are taking yet more money for yet another car they can't seem to ship at scale.

This makes Tesla look like they care little, because after all they already have your Model 3 money.

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ktta8y ago· 3 in thread

>If I was a consumer sitting on a Model 3 reservation I would be pissed that they are taking yet more money for yet another car they can't seem to ship at scale.

I mean, by the same reasoning, Model S owners should be pissed, Model X owners should be pissed too. But the money from both seems to have made Model 3 possible.

urdaOP8y ago

True I haven't even touched on them either! Tesla has yet to prove they can build cars at scale, they are nothing compared to current auto manufacturers.

I think they are biting off more than they can chew.

ktta8y ago

>I think they are biting off more than they can chew.

I don't think anyone will disagree with you about that. But we sure as hell want to see them succeed.

dmode8y ago

People are overreacting on Model 3 challenges. It is a really simple car to manufacture. Once the supply chain bottlenecks are ironed out, it will be really easy to pump out cars at scale. They already produce 2500 S and X per week.

pySSK8y ago

R&D engineers and car designers are usually separate people from manufacturing and supply chain engineers.

Now that Model 3 has been passed onto mass(-ish) production, Tesla is using those engineers to develop other products. Tesla would lose those talented people if it asked them to just sit and do nothing, or if it asked them to work on areas completely outside their (not just lose, but lose to competitors).

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