Production/Delivery Status

[graham]

So they should be at or close to 400 cars delivered by the end of the month ...

This jives with what I have been told as well. They should actually dip into the 400s before the end of the month as far as car VINs go I think. But of course with the wacky schedules where certain cars end up taking weeks longer than others I don't know that they will be in absolute cars delivered.

 

[Kevin Harney]

I had heard 330 delivered not to long ago from I believe it was Elon. @ 100 cars a month that would mean 400 by month's end.

 

[Palpatine]

Guy named Carl yesterday took delivery of Roadster #320. (He was originally expecting #402.)

Carl's New Tesla - a set on Flickr

He just posted this YouTube video also. It is sort of good. I like the video camera placement.
It is in the Lotus and chasing the Tesla around.

 

[vfx]

These guys are friends and we could see that. Made it personable. Very nice. Though I'd cut out another 1.5 minutes.

Next time. let's see some hills and it would be great to have a speakerphone between the two drivers. Oh and two cameras (front and back views) in each car!

 

[jtibble]

I took the pictures off his Flickr page and made a panorama from them (wow that is a lot of very expensive cars!!)

http://umich.edu/~jtibble/pano.jpg

All picture credit goes to Flickr: joeracer's Photostream

 

[vfx]

Nice work. Yeah, 10 cars is a million dollars!

 

[jtibble]

I can count 31 in this panorama.... including that strange all-yellow one on the far left and Elon's gray and orange-striped in the shop.

EDIT: look at this picture here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joenuxoll/3460609989/sizes/o/

There is a green car (in the group facing towards the camera) that appears to have the number 925... am I reading that incorrectly or is that car waaaay out of order?

 

[ChargeIt!]

I can count 31 in this panorama.... including that strange all-yellow one on the far left and Elon's gray and orange-striped in the shop.

EDIT: look at this picture here:
Flickr Photo Download: Carl's New Tesla 31

There is a green car (in the group facing towards the camera) that appears to have the number 925... am I reading that incorrectly or is that car waaaay out of order?

I think you mean Martin's gray/orange-striped ... and I think it might be 385 (not #925).

 

[Chris H.]

The grey car with orange racing stripes belongs to Martin Eberhard, one of the founders of Tesla Motors (the other being Marc Tarpenning).

Tesla Founders Blog

 

[TEG]

Car #425 looked almost ready at the shop today. Also 4 more gliders seemed to be arriving, so Graham should be maybe a few weeks away at this point.

 

[Grin]

Roadster 392

If any is at the Menlo Park store and sees number 392 (twilight blue) I'd love to see a picture. It should be coming in 1-3 weeks!

 

[jtibble]

I think you mean Martin's gray/orange-striped ...

Oooops! I should be more careful next time!

 

[graham]

If any is at the Menlo Park store and sees number 392 (twilight blue) I'd love to see a picture. It should be coming in 1-3 weeks!

Unfortunately, we had all gone by the time you posted this. I am not sure of this number (there were several twilight blue cars there), but it is possible that this was 392. What kind of wheels did you order?

 

[graham]

The highest production number we saw today was #425 (muzzled)

Apparently my car #435 is in customs and should arrive to begin DT install later this week.

More sea of Roadsters:

 

[Grin]

Unfortunately, we had all gone by the time you posted this. I am not sure of this number (there were several twilight blue cars there), but it is possible that this was 392. What kind of wheels did you order?

I ordered the base wheels. Along with two-tone black/dark gray interior.

 

[graham]

Don't remember the interior, I'm afraid. But the other cars around that one were in the same VIN range -- and with the base wheels on it, this may well be your car.

 

[Palpatine]

More sea of Roadsters:

How do they avoid door dings getting in and out of cars packed that tight?

 

[TEG]

How do they avoid door dings getting in and out of cars packed that tight?

Perhaps they push them in and out without actually getting in?

 

[graham]

How do they avoid door dings getting in and out of cars packed that tight?

Dukes of Hazard style!

 

[TEG]

Dukes of Hazard style!