Southpasfan
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It's completely reasonable and done all the time. I love Tesla as much as any of us, but not being able to easily produce RWD units is not why we are waiting. Can't fault them though, they are managing the business as they should.
I will probably get my car and then stop thinking about this, but having no experience in manufacturing it would be interesting if someone who has experience or even experience in car manufacturing would know.
It occurred to me that Model 3's are somewhat like hamburgers. You can have a single, a double, a double cheeseburger, a double double cheeseburger hold the ketchup, etc.
When you apply that to a car the key difference between a SR+ and a LR RWD seems to just be a bigger battery, otherwise the cars would be identical. A few days ago someone said that the thing is that all of the bigger battery packs have front wiring for the second engine, but one wonders how difficult it is to remove that wiring.
I concluded that there must be more to it than that. Maybe the battery packs, which must weigh so much that I doubt they are lifted by hand, are pre-loaded to proceed to the assembly line via conveyor, and to run off a couple of thousand LR RWD's you need to not just change one battery pack, but pre-load 3,000 for efficiency.
That would be a reason for making them in batches. But I confess I am making all of this up, frankly.