California is a pretty big state with lots of open areas.
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California is a pretty big state with lots of open areas.
RobStark
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Toyota-GM produced 460k cars at Fremont in 1996.
They don't need to store so many cars.
They need to ship that many cars. I don't think that will come as a surprise to Elon. The need to ship ~10k cars per week.
But Toyota-Gm shipped them to dealers that had car lots. Where is Fremont going to shipped 10000 to?
powertoold
Active Member
Right to delivery. Tesla's cars are mostly made to order, so they should just go straight to the customer asap.
So Tesla is going to have car transports driving around neighborhoods delivering cars? Makes perfect sense. Or are they going to use trains to ship them to some destination and have the Tesla truck deliver them?
powertoold
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They've been building those huge delivery centers in Fremont and Marina Del Rey (and elsewhere) for this purpose. They also do home deliveries. I agree it's a logistical nightmare though, especially at 10k/week.
This was days after the first delivery event. I'm sure it died WAY down since then.
There was also the huge lot in Burbank, which as far as i know, we don't know what it is.
suwaneedad
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Remember in ~November, when someone posted pics of 80-100 M3s in a parking deck in the LA area, each with defects scrawled on the windshields? Did anyone ever post a credible update on what happened with those cars? I'm assuming they were worked by area SCs and delivered as new recently, once the defects had been resolved by SC techs. But it'd be interesting (to me) to know what Tesla did with those many 3s by now.
Todd Burch
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Some will go to delivery centers and be scheduled to be picked up by customers ASAP. Others will be trucked to service centers for pickup, just as Tesla has been doing with X/S for years.
Once a newly started dealer has filled their lot, the only shipments they receive are to replace sold inventory. So the number of cars sitting at all the dealerships is sort of irrelevant to distribution.
Selling 10k a week nationwide takes the same logistical effort whether there are 0 or 100k cars sitting in dealer/delivery center inventory. Delivery center count does matter in terms in facility throughput needed. With a backlog of orders/ guaranteed buyers, they can parallel DSs to match the shipping rate (Assuming sufficient short term buffer space, summon is your friend).
Reciprocity
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You guys are nuts with this conversation. Delivering 10k/w is not the problem, building now then 2000/w apparently if the team issue.
Just to put out into context, let's say roughly 250 stores world wide. 2k/week day at worst. That's 8 deliveries pet store per week day, and they deliver 12 hours a day. It's basically a full time job for one person per location. It takes longer loading/unloading and detailing.
If they want to deliver to someone's home where ever is so location, just work a deal with a car wash to detail the cars and higher drivers to deliver the cars and Uber then back for the next delivery. 8 per day... Nothing.
Umm, most of the defect note was on Model S/X. They pulled the article when the article made it sound like Model 3 were defective and waiting for fix.
ummgood
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I don't think dealing with 10k cars/week is that difficult. Yes the logistics have to be worked out but let's just say that 10k/week are going just to US Tesla locations. There are about 100 showrooms (I am assuming that each service center will deliver. This doesn't count for locations that might have 3 showrooms but only one service center like Houston). So let's say 100 locations in the US to do deliveries. That means that for 10k/week each location will have to deliver about 100 cars/week. That isn't that crazy. Now if it is 10k/week world wide which is more reasonable because by the time they hit 10k/week they'll probably be doing international shipments then you are looking at probably closer to 50 cars per week to be delivered.
That is less than 10 cars/day per location. It isn't that far fetched. Right now it seems crazy because they are only delivering to Cali mostly but when they get other service centers delivering and they hire the people to wash/detain/deliver the cars it isn't that crazy when you divide by the number of locations.
Now this is a gross generalization but some service centers will be able to do lots more deliveries and some less. Plus for example I might be willing to drive to Houston or Dallas to get my car if they could move up my delivery slot of they have more ability to move more cars from that location than say Austin.
That is less than 10 cars/day per location. It isn't that far fetched. Right now it seems crazy because they are only delivering to Cali mostly but when they get other service centers delivering and they hire the people to wash/detain/deliver the cars it isn't that crazy when you divide by the number of locations.
Now this is a gross generalization but some service centers will be able to do lots more deliveries and some less. Plus for example I might be willing to drive to Houston or Dallas to get my car if they could move up my delivery slot of they have more ability to move more cars from that location than say Austin.
UZJedi
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ccutrer
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For science: my new reservation as of today is listing Late 2018 for all three categories. But... the CA owners that got invited for both reservations didn’t have identical dates either. So, we’ll wait until my first reservation gets invited before drawing conclusions.
dgpcolorado
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3040 in post 868 and a possible 3041 in post 843. (Before the dozens and dozens of off topic posts.)
whats the date on that video? is this from today/yesterday? the lot seems full again if yes.
