My coworker has his model 3 delivered by a Tesla engineer. It's kind of cool... a lot different than when mine was delivered by a delivery center employee. He said they never get to talk to the customers before and now they could. It is really fun for them.
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Tesla Engineers and Managers are Delivering Cars in SoCal
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Vacation for the engineers. They’ll get bored of the social interaction in a couple of days and be begging to get back to their cubicles
Jedi2155
Model 3 has Arrived.
Heard from my engineering pal in Tesla that pretty much anyone who isn't working on a critical project is delivering cars this week. He requested to personally deliver my car lol, but got stuck working 14+ hrs....
Jedi2155
Model 3 has Arrived.
Are you sure you'd trust him driving your car? Lol....
The car likely would've arrived, parked, with the engineer sleeping in the backseat
LOL. I actually asked the guy if Tesla uses them to move some of the cars (CPO?) down from Northern California by making them drive down, but he said they paid to fly them down + hotel (so they don't have to sleep in the cars!)
My delivery was done by a SolarCity(now, part of Tesla) engineer.... And he knows almost nothing about the car......
Honestly, I’d pay a premium to have a delivery experience that included a Tesla engineer in the mix. I love exploring how things came to be and the thought that went into it.
I can see how that’s not great if they don’t really know much about the car, though (which is kind of mind blowing).
I can see how that’s not great if they don’t really know much about the car, though (which is kind of mind blowing).
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Mine was delivered at Fremont's Delivery Center by someone who works in Tesla Factory in Manufacturing Finance.
They said they've been working crazy hours for 15 days straight. Spent a couple of days washing the cars, too!
I got there at 10 pm and left around midnight due to waiting for them to deal with customers ahead of me, and for paperwork since they had to assign a VIN to me on the spot. (My "Tesla Direct" delivery never happened earlier Friday.)
They said they've been working crazy hours for 15 days straight. Spent a couple of days washing the cars, too!
I got there at 10 pm and left around midnight due to waiting for them to deal with customers ahead of me, and for paperwork since they had to assign a VIN to me on the spot. (My "Tesla Direct" delivery never happened earlier Friday.)
Jedi2155
Model 3 has Arrived.
Full service baby. Negotiation, inspection, QC and all for the price of a happy meal!
Tesla needs to make their numbers so my warranty isn’t worthless.
Mostly out of self interest but partly enthusiasm for Tesla’s disruption in the EV market.
I could totally see that. If they're working their asses of during the day, they may not have time to dig into anything outside their area of concentration either at work or online. And, they may not even have a 3 or any Tesla.
After all, if you do 60+ hour weeks, do you think you'll have much free time to spend on TMC or other forums, esp. if you have an SO, family and kids? Even w/o that, how much time would you want to if you were working all day on something Tesla-related as it is?
I have a specific focus at my work (I test software) and there's a TON of stuff outside my team (esp. on teams that I don't work with or where we just ingest their data) that I know little or virtually nothing about. Some I understand at a high level, others like marketing and partnerships with other companies, content licensing, legal, HR, etc. have nothing to do with me.
Someone who's a process engineer, battery engineer or a mechanical engineer probably knows not that much about autopilot algorithms, neural networks or machine learning or the decisions made by the UX folks who did the car's UI.
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