WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
Yes, there has been chatter than nothing until June, but that's probably Model-3 rather than MS / MX
Basically:
Tesla will want to delivery everything by end of Quarter - i.e. end of this March.
So they stop making cars for EU as the last ship leaves, in sufficient time for the ship to get to EU and all cars to get to punters. Then they resume making only for local market (USA / Canada) instead, as they still have time to get those to punter ... no ship needed
As soon as they can no longer be able to delivery to local market they make again for EU, put them on a boat and get them to customers. That takes several weeks ...
So basically between End of March and, say, 2nd week of May there are no cars arriving.
But this time around there has been talk that they won't be making M3 deliveries until June (maybe they are reorganising the factory, maybe they are prioritising LHD 'coz GB had lion's share, RHD, this quarter, maybe they think that GB will only want Model-Y from now on ... dunno)
However, the MS / MX isn't quite the same. Tesla will still want MS / MX cars in transit to be converted to completed sales to punters, rather than on the high seas, at the end-of-quarter. But MS / MX come over in containers and get reassembled, so they aren't hanging around waiting for a car-carrying ship that has space for thousands of cars. But that said I would have expected any MS / MX ordered by, say, early-ish February to be here by end of March, and anything ordered January or earlier should be a definite ... provided that the order doesn't include something that has become short-supply (sometimes things like White Seats have hit a delay for some reason). Also possible that reassembly hit some problem and the car is waiting on spares from USA.
So I think the June thing probably not applicable to MS / MX, but unlikely to be deliveries in early part of April, unless reassembly already started in March and the holdup reason was resolved in early April
Basically:
Tesla will want to delivery everything by end of Quarter - i.e. end of this March.
So they stop making cars for EU as the last ship leaves, in sufficient time for the ship to get to EU and all cars to get to punters. Then they resume making only for local market (USA / Canada) instead, as they still have time to get those to punter ... no ship needed
As soon as they can no longer be able to delivery to local market they make again for EU, put them on a boat and get them to customers. That takes several weeks ...
So basically between End of March and, say, 2nd week of May there are no cars arriving.
But this time around there has been talk that they won't be making M3 deliveries until June (maybe they are reorganising the factory, maybe they are prioritising LHD 'coz GB had lion's share, RHD, this quarter, maybe they think that GB will only want Model-Y from now on ... dunno)
However, the MS / MX isn't quite the same. Tesla will still want MS / MX cars in transit to be converted to completed sales to punters, rather than on the high seas, at the end-of-quarter. But MS / MX come over in containers and get reassembled, so they aren't hanging around waiting for a car-carrying ship that has space for thousands of cars. But that said I would have expected any MS / MX ordered by, say, early-ish February to be here by end of March, and anything ordered January or earlier should be a definite ... provided that the order doesn't include something that has become short-supply (sometimes things like White Seats have hit a delay for some reason). Also possible that reassembly hit some problem and the car is waiting on spares from USA.
So I think the June thing probably not applicable to MS / MX, but unlikely to be deliveries in early part of April, unless reassembly already started in March and the holdup reason was resolved in early April
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