Serieuze vertraging in de ramp up door bepaalde kwaliteitsproblemen, inmiddels zouden die problemen grotendeels opgelost zijn, maar hapert het wslk wel in het aantal leveringen (upgrade koplampen, zetels), ook iets met het accupack in juli.
De problemen staan in het blauw. Ook nog kleinere delen moesten opnieuw vervangen worden, zo kan natuurlijk een loopband nooit werken, maar is het vooral handwerk. Sinds einde september is er wel beterschap, dat zou er nog aan mankeren...
Citaat:
https://electrek.co/2017/10/06/tesla...battery-seats/
Tesla replaces Model 3 headlights, battery, seats, and more while going through ‘production hell’
Fred Lambert - Oct. 6th 2017
Tesla disappointed with its Model 3 production during the last quarter with only 260 units. The company blamed the result on “production bottlenecks” and CEO Elon Musk said today that they are pushing the Tesla Semi unveiling to focus on Model 3 production.
Now let’s take a look at some of those bottlenecks and components that Tesla changed as it tunes its early Model 3 production.
To be fair, these early production issues are expected when launching a new vehicle program. Tesla says:
“Although the vast majority of manufacturing subsystems at both our California car plant and our Nevada Gigafactory are able to operate at high rate, a handful have taken longer to activate than expected.”
It means that a few components are only manufactured in low volumes, which limits overall production.
The company says that it is “confident of addressing the manufacturing bottleneck issues in the near-term” and it didn’t change the delivery timeframes for regular customer deliveries.
In the meantime, employees and company insiders are the ones taking delivery of early production vehicles. Those vehicles are subject to components changes as Tesla tunes its manufacturing processes for Model 3 and add more production parts.
Sources familiar with those changes confirmed to Electrek that they had to make over a half dozen of them. In most cases, the vehicles are still performing normally, but Tesla wants to replace a now “prototype” part with a production one or it has improved on a production part through the deployment of the Model 3 manufacturing lines.
For example, Tesla has already replaced the Model 3 front and passenger seats as well as the battery packs from the vehicles made in July.
More recently, Tesla changed the Model 3’s headlight and tail lights for vehicles made in August. The headlights were replaced with an “upgraded version”, while the first version of the tail lights were susceptible to condensation – something that was visible in some Model 3 production candidates spotted in the wild earlier this year.
Tesla also had to replace several other smaller components, but as we reported last week, Tesla attempted a Model 3 production ramp up in September and the changes have slowed down since.
Electrek’s Take
What’s interesting about this is that it gives us insight into the work being done on those early production Model 3 vehicles.
Longtime Tesla enthusiasts remember the same things happening with early Model S production and most recently with early Model X production, which was when Musk first introduced his “production hell” expression.
These things happen.
Some early adopters of those vehicles had significant work done on their cars as Tesla was still figuring out production. I have a 2012 Model S and while I wasn’t the owner at the time, I am aware that lot of work went into the early life of the vehicle.
As for Model 3, Tesla’s strategy to only deliver those same early production vehicles to employees and company insiders results in a less visible process, but as we can see, it appears to be quite inevitable.
While Musk warned Model 3 reservation holders to ‘assume the worst‘ when it comes to their delivery timeline, at least you know that those early adopters have already been working through some of the issues with the early production ramp.
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Tempo van de productie ligt zowat op handwerktempo, slechts 260 wagens sinds 1 juli.
Maar goed dat al die auto's voor de werknemers van Tesla bestemd zijn, naja die willen ook voor de eerste keer goed afgewerkte auto's. Terugorderen op garantie is dubbel werk.
De voorstelling van de Tesla Semi of vrachtwagen wordt met 3 weken uitgesteld naar 16 november.
Rampgebied Puerto Rico heeft extra powerpacks nodig, Tesla wil helpen bij de stroomvoorziening:
Ik heb even teruggezocht aan wat het zou kunnen liggen, is het prijsdruk en
onmogelijke deadline, teveel leveringen uit het buitenland, alle delen zijn ook quasi nieuw en niet overgenomen uit vorige Tesla's ?
Alvast een link van 6 september die het al tussen de regels aankondigde:
Citaat:
https://electrek.co/2017/09/06/tesla...canada-mexico/
Tesla Model 3 is built with 50% parts from US/Canada, and 25% from Mexico – here’s why it’s important
Fred Lambert - Sep. 6th 2017
There are 10,000 unique parts in a Tesla Model 3 and any one of them can slow down the automaker’s important production ramp up.
Furthermore, the provenance of those parts has some interesting implications and we now have more details on them.
Aside from encouraging the local industry, it has somewhat of a significant impact on the sale price in Canada and Mexico.
Under NAFTA, cars that have been assembled in Canada, the US or Mexico need a minimum of 55% content to be from North America in order to be considered a “NAFTA vehicle” and be exempt of any tariffs, duties or taxes when sold in Canada, the US or Mexico.
In Canada, that’s 6.1% or over $2,000 on the base price of the Model 3.
The Model 3 was expected to be Tesla’s first vehicle not to be slapped with the price bump thanks to Tesla’s new ‘2170’ battery cells manufactured in the US instead of Japan.
The supply chain change that Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 enables was expected to be enough to make the difference.
CEO Elon Musk reassured everyone during the launch in July saying that “two thirds of parts are made in North America and the other third is coming from around the world.”
But as we reported earlier this week, now it’s official with a Model 3 Monroney Sticker being spotted and confirming that 50% of the parts are from US/Canada, and 25% from Mexico (credit picture Zoomit):
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