I was just thinking, with tesla planning to take on do many orders and having no "dealerships"... can they keep up with demand? Sure they can have flat bed truck deliveries but that only this so far. Thoughts?
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Red Sage: I completely disagree. There is no way that Tesla can continue this very expensive delivery scheme over the long haul. I was lucky in that I bought back when they could deliver right to my house. I simply cannot see that continuing. It is way too expensive. Even considering the price of the car. They must find a more cost effective way of delivering their cars as they move more into the mainstream. They are not consolidating and sending bulk cars to dealerships at all. They are doing it essentially one by one. Way too expensive.
And the signs are there: no more Ranger service for free is just the first step. No more deliveries direct to the house is now in place.
Can't blame them. They need to make money at some point.
Regular dealerships will deliver to homes, so I don't see why Tesla wouldn't be able to continue it. But, the standard method is for you to pick up the car from a service center.
Tesla Service Centers act like dealerships, but with a faster turnover of inventory.
Collect from Service Center or pay a fee for home delivery. There's no magic to it.
Regular dealerships will deliver to homes, so I don't see why Tesla wouldn't be able to continue it. But, the standard method is for you to pick up the car from a service center.
Tesla will deliver the model 3 the same way they do the Model S, and the same way most car makers delvier cars. You'll go pick em up at the service center. They don't need to do anything fancy, even if they hit their crazy 500k target.
Look at the math, there are currently 60 service centers, by 2020 when they've said they want to sell 500k cars they will easily have been able to triple that to 180 centers. Assume the 500k cars are split roughly 50-50 in the US vs rest of world. That means 250k delivers a year in the US, roughly 250 delivery days per year, so 1000 per day. Thats less than 6 deliveries per service center per day, easily doable. Even if they don't add a single service center thats only 16 cars a day, which would be managable as well.
Course thats all assuming they get anywhere near the 500k mark, which is highly unlikely.
"Regular dealerships will deliver to homes." Really? Who does this? I've bought a ton of new cars of various makes, and I always had to go to dealer to pick them up.
I believe Tesla simply cannot afford to triple the current service centers over the next four years. They will not even be able to triple the supercharger stations over the same period. Nearly every penny of capital will go towards the massive assembly lines for the Model 3, and the continual investment in the gigafactory. To think Tesla will be doing that, and also have the ability to "triple" the service centers might be a little naiive.
Red Sage: I completely disagree. There is no way that Tesla can continue this very expensive delivery scheme over the long haul. I was lucky in that I bought back when they could deliver right to my house. I simply cannot see that continuing. It is way too expensive. Even considering the price of the car. They must find a more cost effective way of delivering their cars as they move more into the mainstream. They are not consolidating and sending bulk cars to dealerships at all. They are doing it essentially one by one. Way too expensive.
And the signs are there: no more Ranger service for free is just the first step. No more deliveries direct to the house is now in place.
Can't blame them. They need to make money at some point.
I was under the impression that deliveries to someone's driveway had ended sometime in mid 2013, except for those who are either: 1) in extremely remote areas, hundreds of miles from a Service Center; or 2) in States that do not allow Tesla Motors to 'sell' cars, like Texas. Neither of those is what I consider to be Tesla Motors primary sales and distribution method. They are just means to get the Product to dedicated Customers.Red Sage: I completely disagree. There is no way that Tesla can continue this very expensive delivery scheme over the long haul. I was lucky in that I bought back when they could deliver right to my house. I simply cannot see that continuing. It is way too expensive. Even considering the price of the car. They must find a more cost effective way of delivering their cars as they move more into the mainstream. They are not consolidating and sending bulk cars to dealerships at all. They are doing it essentially one by one. Way too expensive.
The closest Service Center to me is a 3 hour drive. That's 6 hours of driving, 3 of which (the return trip) would be in 2 cars. Since the one-way trip is about 280 miles it would require a charging along the way. That sounds pretty daunting for a newbie.
@johan... I don't know I'm using Tapatalk so I can't tell you why or how... Maybe through the app? Is it annoying? It looks normal in the app. Don't have a pc to check now.Home delivery is not the norm anymore.
@Nightdevil: How did you get such a big avatar?
Now I will not say anything about whether they have to double, triple or quadruple their capacity of service centres. But if they can not increase the capacity to take away the need for service/warranty repairs then they can not be handing out these cars - even if the deliveries would be "free" and outside of their normal line. So they need to do a massive up scale here anyway, or lower their expansion plans.