People’s frustration clearly stems from this June delivery guidance when the order page opened along with the staff not being able to share any insight on what can be expected next now.
Again, I totally agree with
@LEE3 which is why I think much of this 'negative' speculation from others with their perceived 'knowledge' is most likely off the mark.
I follow Morten in Norway who tracks the ships, as well as the guy in SF (on Twitter, not in person) and neither have reported a build up in cars at SF ready to ship, or any more departures since the one heading to China
That's a waste of energy in my opinion. Unless you enjoy foraging for information of course. Then I expect it's quite a lot of fun. But I just think their information is more likely just missing information.
Anyone know what the M3 UK order number roughly stands at?
My order number is in the 3400’s, ordered 10 May and not a reservation holder.
Perhaps anyone who has ordered an M3 recently (last day or two) could let us know the last 5 digits of your order number.
I ordered on 7th May and my order number is just shy of 3000 which suggests between 400 and 500 orders placed in those 3 days.
5,131 reported on 17th June. I haven't seen any higher than that.
So is it the assumption that around 3,500 orders were placed in the first 10 days? It would therefore follow that only a further 1,630 odd orders placed in the following 38 days? That would mean a drop in order rate from 2,500 per week to 300 per week.
I have no idea what this means, probably more pointless speculation and guesswork. Interesting though. I'll join the fun of searching for more pointless information and take a look at that spreadsheet and add my details. The order rate would be interesting to plot on a graph.
The very knowledgeable guy at Tesla Heathrow said that Model 3's would be trained to east coast and shipped from there to Tilburn (?), just like S and X, the latter being reassembled in Europe as I understand to reduce import duty.
So it came as a big surprise that M3's started being shipped from West Coast.
I wonder if this may have been a quicker but more expensive route, just to get some early headline making deliveries in by end of June, and from now on, they may revert to business as usual, just like the S and X to keep costs down and better margins.
So is it possible we are looking for them in the wrong side of America?
I can't say I have experience shipping cars from the West coast of the USA, but I do have extensive experience over the past 20 years shipping containers of fresh produce from there to the UK. It most certainly won't be the same, however what I can say is that shipping by rail overland to a port on the east coast (known as 'minilandbridge') is both more expensive and considerably quicker than the 'all-water' route via the Panama canal. You wouldn't see the cars piling up on a quayside in SFO either.
I was just coming to post this
So this is potentially just more missing information and not actually reliable information at all.
Yeah, the 1,000 that were reported to be on the Grand Mark don't appear to have turned up anywhere yet. It only seems like the 300 from the Grand Dahlia have so far been delivered to customers.
If they ever existed they will be on the way. VIN number registrations are another notoriously unreliable information source.
