Model 3 delivery times, are they in keeping with approximate delivery dates? Ours is scheduled to arrive in August of 22. Does Tesla send info as to production status?
Deliveries seem to roughly match up with the original delivery dates. Some people see lots of activity in changes to those dates, but the trend seems to be to track right back to the original range.
Tesla does not contact you about any changes to delivery dates - or even being assigned a VIN. Check the app at intervals. For some, that means every few minutes. For others, every couple days. Certainly make sure that you don't have any pending work items related to financing, trade-ins, etc. that would delay the Tesla process.
I see this “2 week window” term a lot on reddit. When someone is given an EDD that is two weeks what exactly does that mean ? I take it as a good thing, but haven't seen an explanation.
A two week window is usually a precursor to getting a VIN. Two week windows aren't usually handed out unless Tesla is getting serious about building your vehicle. There have been people who have seen spurious two-week windows where they just went back to a four-week window, but two-week windows are usually a good sign.
@T-J- is our poster child for EDD teases. He's been on two-week watch for a while now, with Tesla repeatedly giving him two-week windows that keep moving around. I believe that's a significant exception to the normal pattern. I had one four-week window, then one two-week window, then a VIN just prior to the start of the two-week window. But that was before Russia invaded, which really messed things up.
I am kind of getting tired of the whole charger rant.
Let me breakdown a few things.
1) It is not confirmed earlier orders will not get charger. It is pure speculations.
2) Chargers are usually out of stock due to material shortage and can potentially delay deliveries.
3) People dont have statistics and cannot assume that 110 out of 100 people use the charger.
4) The charger moving forward will be half the price and will include more connectors.
5) Let us all agree that after spending 60k on a car, and probably 1k on accesories like mats, and cup holders etc, not to mention ceramic and PPF for another 2-3k or so and 600-1k on electrician, people really arent going to cancel order for a 200$ item.
Some terminology to be clear:
1. A charger is a thing that delivers DC power to the battery pack. This is either a charging station like a Supercharger or the car's onboard charger which converts AC power to DC power so the car can use that.
2. A connector is the cable that delivers power to the car's charging port.
3. An adapter is a thing that allows one end or the other of a connector to plug into something. So the things that allow the Tesla connector to plug into a 110v or 220v AC source are adapters. In the other direction is a J1772 adapter, which allows a public charger's builtin connector to plug into a Tesla.
At home, an adapter on one end of the mobile connector plugs into the house's AC outlet while the other end of the connector plugs into the Tesla charging port. Inside the Tesla, the AC power is delivered to the onboard charger which converts it to DC power and that's what goes into the battery.
At a charging station, the station's builtin connector plugs into a J1772 adapter which plugs into the Tesla charging port. Inside the Tesla, the DC power from the charging station is delivered directly to the battery.