Hier is het stukje over de drivetrain uit de Q3 conference call:
Daniel V. Galves - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker)Okay. Maybe just to squeeze in one more. The newer drive unit, how is kind of the quality level been on that versus I think you had kind of a bigger drive unit that you used initially for the first couple of years?
Elon Reeve Musk - Chairman & Chief Executive OfficerYeah, right now, we're actually very happy with the quality of the drive units. I mean, internally, our goal – we changed the goal of the drive unit endurance from being approximately 200,000 miles to being 1 million miles. Just basically we want drive units that just never wear out. That's our goal. And I think we've made really good progress in that direction. So the drive units going out now and for the last several months have been excellent. So...
Jeffrey B. Straubel - Chief Technology OfficerYeah, we should probably note that, I mean, we've also made improvements to the large drive unit and those issues were really limited to early population large drive units. So today we hold the same standard on both units that are being built.
Elon Reeve Musk - Chairman & Chief Executive OfficerYeah, exactly. There was like this one period of time where we had, I mean, it was like that was getting into the weeds, like we transitioned from manual, just before we transitioned to automatic grease injection into the spline of the large drive unit, we had variation in how much grease was put into the spline. And if not enough grease was put into the spline, it would have premature wear. That's, like, one example. But other than that, the large drive units have been great.
Musk is gewoon de ultieme salesman. Iedereen weet dat er een probleem is, dat bagatelliseert hij, maar tegelijkertijd laat hij de indruk achter dat dit is opgelost terwijl ze bezig waren om de motor geschikt te maken voor een Million Miles.

De nieuwe Sales en Service VP is afkomstig van een bedrijf waar hij de after-service kosten met factoren heeft weten te verlagen. Die kan bij Tesla goed werk verrichten.
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