Update from the spreadsheet:
I know we have been collecting a whole lot of data on the Model 3 Invites Spreadsheet.
And it is tempting to pore over each individual data sets to glean more new detailed information.
Me, I like to see the big picture.
Look at Troy's VIN graph below, for example, rather than looking at each individual points, line, or slopes, I like to take a step back and squint my eyes (not very hard to do in my case).
If you do that, you'll see a very interesting pattern.
Cut the chart horizontally at VIN 7000. Now take the top half and shift it back 4 weeks. Do you see it?
Apparently, February was a very bad month for production.
March, on the other hand, was excellent. If you accept the red regression curve as it is drawn, then April production is not very impressive (the slope is rather flat). But, if you redraw that line in your shifted graph, then March and April is the start of the exponential growth of the S curve.
Now do the same thing for the yellow graph below cutting at VIN 10,000 and shifting March 1st to February 1st.
My take is Tesla is a month behind on their goals. But, things are picking up - 2500/wk by April 1st.
CJ