tonybelding
Active Member
"Sold out"?
Since when is 600 cars sold out?
I thought I remember reading that the goal was 800 cars. Or even 1000 cars for a model year.
My understanding was that, in theory at least, they could produce upwards of 2,000 per year after production is ramped up. However, I believe that would require at least adding a shift at the Lotus assembly plant. About 1,000 per year is a more likely limit.
However. . . It's going to be slow going at first. The first cars will be slowly and carefully assembled, with a learning curve, and then the rate of production will gradually increase. The plan was to produce 800 cars in the first year. Now with the delay that was recently announced, it seems that 600 cars is more likely.
Since they have about 600 pre-orders at this time, that means the 2008 year model is more-or-less sold out. If they get production increased more quickly, it's possible they might be able to allocate more cars to 2008 production. It's just too early to say.
600 is great and it's been said that Tesla is (or at least was) on average selling a car every 2 days. Have they really called the 2007-2008 year sold out?
Is the person ordering car number 601 now officially ordering car one for the 2009 model year?
There will be no 2007 year model. The 2008 model isn't "officially" sold out, but they aren't taking any more pre-orders just now because they don't really know whether they would be able to fill them or not.
Incidentally. . . I got an email from Zak with an update on where I am in line. I have reservation number 315, with an expected build month of September 2008. Hmm. . . Did he really mean build month? That's about when I was hoping for delivery. :frown:
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