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Thomas Edison
Active Member
Just program the Fremont factory as the destination and away she goes. With a sticky note on the monitor saying "return to sender"
dgpcolorado
high altitude member
I never did meet the "delivery specialist" on my CPO delivery. The car was trucked to my side of the mountains and I had the truck drivers deliver it to the local library because it had a parking lot big enough for a full size semi to offload the car (on a lift), something not common in a tiny town in the mountains. The truck drivers didn't want to tackle the mountain roads leading to my neighborhood; we negotiated the delivery spot by phone.
I'd never even sat in a Tesla before but learned how to drive it from online videos. Doing the paperwork online and by FedEx was fairly convenient.
I'd never even sat in a Tesla before but learned how to drive it from online videos. Doing the paperwork online and by FedEx was fairly convenient.
That's pretty cool actually. In a perfect world I'd have the car delivered and never do anything in-person but since I live under an hour from the factory I'll just pick it up there.
SageBrush
REJECT Fascism
Cool thanks for the mod on title, makes good sense. It appears many believe delivery process has been quite smooth and don't expect it to be a major issue for Model 3. Hopefully that's the case. I am still concerned with the volume change and the number of people they have at stores.
Let's all hope production ramps up and other things go smoother as well.
Let's all hope production ramps up and other things go smoother as well.
Let's put it this way. I can't wait until delivery is the bottleneck.
That's the reason why when he mentioned having a video for owners to watch, so the staff don't have to go through everything with the owner.
The car has a 15" screen. They could have an tutorial inside the car. They could probably make it interactive for the non-driving controls.
There isn't that much you need to know and a lot of the essentials can be discovered just sitting in the car.
Sidenotes:
- When we test drove our Volt, the car was brought over and we were handed the fob; nobody had to explain anything to us.
- my 2010 Prius came with an instructional DVD.
I think the longest part of the delivery process was me going through my TMC delivery checklist 
The two delivery folks working with us got a kick out of it and brought us a bunch of swag. But that was over three years ago and obviously a different scenario than today. I do think it will be a challenge to ramp that up to the pace of delivery they are aspiring for, but they do have the benefit of a relatively large data set of S/X deliveries to draw upon. Even if the "delivery experience" of a Model 3 is a bit more abbreviated, just the physical space the whole process occupies, the attention to final paperwork processing (which they've hopefully migrated to digital as much as is possible), and a welcoming delivery specialist who can provide the same high level of customer service over and over is not something that will happen on accident. I'm sure they'll figure it out, but there will no doubt be some growing pains.
The two delivery folks working with us got a kick out of it and brought us a bunch of swag. But that was over three years ago and obviously a different scenario than today. I do think it will be a challenge to ramp that up to the pace of delivery they are aspiring for, but they do have the benefit of a relatively large data set of S/X deliveries to draw upon. Even if the "delivery experience" of a Model 3 is a bit more abbreviated, just the physical space the whole process occupies, the attention to final paperwork processing (which they've hopefully migrated to digital as much as is possible), and a welcoming delivery specialist who can provide the same high level of customer service over and over is not something that will happen on accident. I'm sure they'll figure it out, but there will no doubt be some growing pains.
Garlan Garner
Banned
Opinion: Bottleneck won't just be parts or production<------Thread title.
Tesla Model 3 bottleneck confirmed to be at Gigafactory 1, Panasonic CEO says should be resolved ‘soon’ <---- Read into it as you please.
Panasonic Corp Chief Executive Kazuhiro Tsuga said on Tuesday that output could soon be increased at Tesla Inc’s “gigafactory” battery plant as the causes of production bottlenecks for Tesla’s Model 3 are now understood
Tesla Model 3 bottleneck confirmed to be at Gigafactory 1, Panasonic CEO says should be resolved ‘soon’ <---- Read into it as you please.
Panasonic Corp Chief Executive Kazuhiro Tsuga said on Tuesday that output could soon be increased at Tesla Inc’s “gigafactory” battery plant as the causes of production bottlenecks for Tesla’s Model 3 are now understood
Reading is fundamental ... the article you linked clearly says "...that production should increase soon...". In fact, a quote from another article says "This process (for battery packs) will be soon automated, and then the number of vehicles to be produced will rise sharply". Panasonic says Gigafactory battery output to increase for Tesla's Model 3
Garlan Garner
Banned
So the CEO or Panasonic is quoted "in the article" as saying could and the article writer says should?
Really? Do we really want to argue about that?
The second Reuters article indicates Panasonic talking about pack production. I wonder if that is just a misunderstanding/translation problem. I assume Panasonic only makes cells for Tesla. Expertise in pack production would seem to be extremely strategically important to Tesla.
I suppose Panasonic may make pack sub-assemblies and hand that module off to Tesla.
All kinds of stuff to potentially go wrong in the gigafactory compared to Tesla's established way of obtaining cells and building packs for the S/X.
I suppose Panasonic may make pack sub-assemblies and hand that module off to Tesla.
All kinds of stuff to potentially go wrong in the gigafactory compared to Tesla's established way of obtaining cells and building packs for the S/X.
Garlan Garner
Banned
I'm shocked that the "current" problem is not with any of their vendors.
Past articles were pointing to the bottleneck being caused by external vendors.
I really really really really hope that there isn't any intentional bottlenecking going on and that the anti-selling campaign is long over.
Past articles were pointing to the bottleneck being caused by external vendors.
I really really really really hope that there isn't any intentional bottlenecking going on and that the anti-selling campaign is long over.
ElecFan
Member
I understood Tesla said it was an external party and Panasonic is just that.
Garlan Garner
Banned
Tesla and Panasonic are partners. Tesla’s battery partner Panasonic increases production in Japan for other automakers
Maybe that's why teslas battery partner "Panasonic" made the statement - out of the blue - that they are ramping up their Tesla battery production a few days ago. Panasonic plans to increase battery production at Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 and other plants, says report
ElecFan
Member
I think so too. And partner or not, in a sense Panasonic is a supplier for Tesla so it is not Tesla internally where the bottleneck lies.
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