Highest production VIN in the wild

[israndy]

Cannot wait for car 12345

-Randy

 

[Reciprocity]

The dash has a VIN tag (the one seen through the windshield) that would be quite difficult to change. It could be something as simple as the dash assemblies having VIN tags attached when built and shipped to Fremont, so the car gets the VIN of the latest dash taken out of storage. Or the tag is sramped and attached on the line, and the number comes from some non FIFO list.
The NHTSA search is a pass through portal to Tesla's information. Tesla feeds the data to the feds, there is no approval from the feds to Tesla for number use.

I thought other parts on the car were also tagged. Incase it was stolen and the Vin tag altered.

Hidden 4th VIN on cars? Law & Order - Straight Dope Message Board

Locate the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) | DMV.ORG

 

[KaJu74]

In a german forum someone leaked that 9nly 3.256 Model 3 wer build.

Could that be?

Or is that a April joke?

 

[israndy]

I thought other parts on the car were also tagged. Incase it was stolen and the Vin tag altered.

That's why I said it starts with the VIN being put on parts in serial order and then assembled. I think the dash and the frame and the motors and many other parts all get numbered. But the sticker on the door jam is put on when the car is ready for delivery, so you get this wide range of cars all getting to delivery in the same month.

-Randy

 

[jkirkwood001]

In a german forum someone leaked that 9nly 3.256 Model 3 wer build.
View attachment 291030
Could that be?

Or is that a April joke?

Dunno. If the number is low, I keep omitting the shutdown in early March from my estimate (6,000), so maybe 3,250 is right. More important to investors and general media is how close to 2,500 in the last week of March they get.

 

[MP3Mike]

In a german forum someone leaked that 9nly 3.256 Model 3 wer build.
View attachment 291030
Could that be?

Or is that a April joke?

First that would be the number delivered; not the number built. Second I don't think it is accurate.

 

[mongo]

I thought other parts on the car were also tagged. Incase it was stolen and the Vin tag altered.

Hidden 4th VIN on cars? Law & Order - Straight Dope Message Board

Locate the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) | DMV.ORG

Normally, yeah. But with the replaceable drive units and packs, it may just be on frames that start assembly after the dash is ready.
And stored in SW on the modules.

 

[iwannam3]

Normally, yeah. But with the replaceable drive units and packs, it may just be on frames that start assembly after the dash is ready.
And stored in SW on the modules.

Is the VIN stamped on S & X battery packs, the most valuable part of the vehicle? It may just be a firmware VIN unless the Gov does't recognize it a a real VIN.

 

[vigge50]

In a german forum someone leaked that 9nly 3.256 Model 3 wer build.
View attachment 291030
Could that be?

Or is that a April joke?

Here is Insideevs site and they haven't write down any number for marsh and the other number is just estimation so it's a april joke.

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[Reciprocity]

That's why I said it starts with the VIN being put on parts in serial order and then assembled. I think the dash and the frame and the motors and many other parts all get numbered. But the sticker on the door jam is put on when the car is ready for delivery, so you get this wide range of cars all getting to delivery in the same month.

-Randy

Fonts not even close. Lol.

 

[mongo]

Is the VIN stamped on S & X battery packs, the most valuable part of the vehicle? It may just be a firmware VIN unless the Gov does't recognize it a a real VIN.

I do not recall having seen it there, and given the amount of swapping that goes on, I sure hope it isn't for logistics sake. If it is password locked in firmware, that should be good enough for anti-theft legislation. That's the same approach used for things like odometer storage and high value modules.

 

[dhanson865]

I'm hopeful we'll see 14000 assigned early next week.

One more thing to bear in mind is at what stage of production the VINs are assigned out. Our understanding here is that Tesla normally seems to assign VINs after the car is out of production, they match the cars to available buyers and deliver. What they could have been doing in the last few weeks, Tesla could be assigning VINs from cars still in production, just to give themselves extra lead time on finding buyers that can take delivery before the end of the quarter, so that could explain the reduction from 2.5 wks down to 11 days in those 2 examples I gave. So if Tesla now goes back to the old method, we could be looking at 2+ wks lead time again.

P.S. the overall production rate could be increasing, but I don't know if that necessarily scales directly to how much time each car takes to go through the line. I'm envisioning a freeway with speed limit of 65mph, when it gets busier it just has more cars on it, but the speed of each car is still ~65mph. Tesla could just be jamming more cars in the production line.

The fastest automobile production line in the world has cars coming out at the average speed of less than 0.45 mph.

If you pick a random grandmother she could walk faster than that even if she has to use a walker.

 

[PoitNarf]

According to Electrek they are at a production rate of over 2000 per week: Tesla Model 3 production rate is now ‘over 2,000 units per week’, says Elon Musk

I don't think they hit the 2500 per week mark in Q1 but they may have gotten closer than some thought they would. My money is on 2150 a week at the end of the quarter.

 

[KaJu74]

 

[John Lamoureux]

View attachment 291182

I'd love to believe this. How do we know it's valid?

Edit: Found it on Jalopnik.

 

[AviP]

3256 may have a basis. I believe it is 682+693+800+1073 = 3248, give or take corrections since it was last posted on the Bloomberg tracker. I don't think this is an actual number. It's all guesswork.

We Set Out to Crack Tesla's Biggest Mystery: How Many Model 3s It's Making

 

[KaJu74]

I think/hope, over 5.000 build.

 

[smythey]

In a german forum someone leaked that 9nly 3.256 Model 3 wer build.
View attachment 291030
Could that be?

Or is that a April joke?

They forgot to photoshop the total column on the right.

 

[Brentt]

I'd love to believe this. How do we know it's valid?

Edit: Found it on Jalopnik.

Electrek is reporting the same memo>

Tesla Model 3 production rate is now ‘over 2,000 units per week’, says Elon Musk

 

[AviP]

So 2000/week now means in the absolute worst case scenario of Eon Musk finding some other bottlenecks along the way, 450,000 orders should be fulfilled in 4 years and 4 months or by Aug 2022. And in the best case scenario if they get to the new maximum of 8000/week by EOY 2018, then all orders would be fulfilled by Oct 2019.