jelloslug
Active Member
BMW does not transport all of their cars in covered carriers. I see fleets of new X5, X6, X3, & X4 SUVs on open trucks leaving the factory daily.
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Highest production VIN in the wild
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Waiting4M3
Active Member
S/N vs date update, it's happening, with 4 reports of deliveries this past weekend on Instagram, and 8 M3 on a delivery truck today.
Great chart. I want to start to see solid vertical lines now....I guess when you can't keep up with the data we'll be there.
Panasonic did say that they finally fixed their problem with automated manufacturing of the battery packs. Hopefully there's nothing more "stopped up", just a bunch of things that they need to get the speed up on
Not quite. Check out the first ten minutes of the Tesla conference call at www.tesla.com. Go to support and then investors to access the conference call. Making progress, but we are not there yet.
ElecFan
Member
Elon has indeed indicated that problems aren't solved yet.
He says (in relation to production-line 2)
I'm not an expert in any respect, so can anyone explain what he means with this statement especially the "atoms in place"? Just curious.
Guess:
Rearranging the bits that comprise software was done quickly. Rearranging the atoms that comprise a physical piece of hardware takes much longer. (Rebuilding physical things is slower than rebuilding software)
Love the chart!!! If you eliminate every point lower than any previous point to that date, it makes an interesting curve.
Waiting4M3
Active Member
I want to see not just the highest VIN but also the overall distribution of the spotted VIN. VIN spotting is cumulative, you could be spotting a car that was delivered 2-3 months ago. So if higher concentration of lower VINs are spotted, it's possible we're still seeing the Aug-Sep deliveries. Personally I'm more excited about the new deliveries last weekend and the 8 on the truck than just the highest VIN.
ModelNforNerd
Active Member
I'd be happy to see multiple VINs delivered FAR from CA. Say, East Coast maybe.
And I'd REEEAALLLYYY like to hear of some non-employee/family member orders being filled.
And I'd REEEAALLLYYY like to hear of some non-employee/family member orders being filled.
dennis
Model S Plaid
You will most likely hear about the configurator being opened for non-employees first.
ModelNforNerd
Active Member
there are east coast employees. but there have only been a handful of deliveries to them at this point.
SageBrush
REJECT Fascism
Of course,
but I'll be delighted when the Model 3 is so common place it becomes the generic name for "car."
SageBrush
REJECT Fascism
Future usage--
1. "I'll grab a '3' to work instead of taking my bike. Wanna share ?"
2. 'Car' is deprecated to mean POS, as in
"That is one ugly car."
It is already happening ;-)
FunkyJunk
Member
Is there any guarantee, rule, or law that says that the manufacturer has to assign VINs sequentially in order of vehicle completion? I think we might be making assumptions here about the significance of higher VIN numbers.
Significance is that the production is running again. There was a void period where there was no sighting.
No rules or laws, but probably safe to assume if you look up a VIN on the NHTSA website and it returns recall information the car is probably pretty close to being produced (if not already produced). Also I manually checked 1000+ VIN numbers and they all were returning 0 recall notices on the NHTSA website. These vins were in the higher range 1800-2639 as well as 1334-750 in hopes of avoiding the already spotted vins.
