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by ryanhuff 2798 days ago
I suspect as they fix one issue (production, etc), the next in line becomes the bottleneck. Now it’s delivery logistics, but once that’s fixed, it will become service, which already seems to be straining.
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Companies around the world are building, shipping and supporting products simultaneously.

Really confused why Tesla can't do the same.

The way I understand it what the previous poster was saying was that they're building a high-volume pipeline which is likely to have issues as it's new to them, and the delivery issues can't show until there's sufficient volume coming in from manufacturing, and the service problems can't show until there's sufficient volume of vehicles delivered.
Tesla doubled their production last quarter, and everything else needs to double, and they are having trouble. The reason 'other car companies' can do better is because Ford or Porsche are stabile companies, with a slow change in the number of vehicles over time. They are more organized than tesla for sure, and they know how to change manufacturing lines when a new model comes out, way better than the young pup tesla.

But ford doesn't double production every quarter like tesla is doing now; one model might change but overall production, sales, support staff doesn't change. Ford has some amount of slack available, but I doubt they could double production from one quarter to the next and just be okay. At least tesla has shown their delivery was not up to the job. The factory is handling it, but struggling.

Anyway, if I got a new car, tesla or now, I'd want it to be well made and for there to be enough salespeople and support and finance and repair staff to handle me - tesla is sucking wind trying to handle all the new customers. At the same time, they are also on full production of new supercharging stations all across the us and the world.