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Mike Mish Shedlock
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The New York Times has an interesting set of images and comments on the Tesla Model 3 tent production line.
"On the Fly" Manufacturing
Scrambling to turn out its first mass-market electric car, the automaker set up multiple assembly lines and is changing production processes on the fly.
The New York Times asks Can Elon Musk and Tesla Reinvent the Way Cars Are Made?
The subtitles in bold below are mine and I reordered a few paragraphs.
Just two years ago, Mr. Musk envisioned 2018 as a breakthrough moment. Having established the brand’s cachet with high-end offerings — the Model S luxury sedan and the Model X sport-utility vehicle — Tesla would begin churning out more affordable Model 3 sedans. With a high-speed, high-tech assembly process, the company’s sales would soar more than fivefold, to half a million vehicles.
It hasn’t turned out that way. Tesla had trouble mass-producing both battery packs and cars. By the end of nearly three months of production after Tesla started assembling the Model 3 last summer, just 260 had rolled off the line, and Mr. Musk said the company faced a prolonged period of “manufacturing hell.” He had hoped to produce 20,000 Model 3s a month by December, but a mere 2,425 were completed in the final three months of 2017.
What the heck is this guy doing with what looks like an iron?
http://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/model-3-assembly-line-detailed-images-of-tesla-s-on-the-fly-manufacturing-YUXs_bBvfEG9wpS3Dq8WPg/
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