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Dank voor je reactie. Ik ben groot voorstander van elektrisch rijden. Weg met de benzine-auto. Er zijn blije Teslarijders, die bijna fans of zelfs soms gezien het scheldgehalte van de brieven hooligans kunnen worden genoemd. Het zijn uitsluitend mannen, hetgeen iets zegt over het testosterongehalte van de auto. Ze zijn heel erg boos over de aanduiding boodschappenwagentje. En zeggen dat ze er veel langer mee kunnen rijden: van 240 tot zelfs meer dan 500 kilometer. Blijkbaar is de ene Tesla de andere niet: of het moeten toverauto’s zijn.
Er zijn ook kritische of boze rijders die roepen dat de auto de 200 kilometer niet haalt op een volle accu. Ik weet het niet meer. Wat ik wel weet en dat is de essentie van de column dat fabrikanten van elektrische auto’s wat meer bescheidenheid zouden moeten tonen. En daar is met name Elon Musk niet goed in. Als ze te veel beloftes doen, dan krijgt het imago van e-auto’s al een deuk voordat het echt van de grond komt. En dat zou jammer zijn want elektrisch rijden is een groot goed. Dank voor je aanbod een keer mee te mogen rijden.
Laten we de Tesla niet zalig verklaren:
Dit las ik ook vandaag
And while it's difficult to believe that Tesla hasn't been able to iron out simplistic assembly line issues like the proper alignment of welds, a new report from several current and former employees would seem to lend some credence to Tracy's hypothesis. As
Reuters notes today, interviews with nine "current and former employees" revealed that
90% of all Model S and Model X vehicles that roll off the assembly line fail quality control checks...which compares to roughly 10% for Toyota.
After Tesla’s Model S sedans and Model X SUVs roll off the company’s Fremont, California assembly line, the electric vehicles usually make another stop - for repairs, nine current and former employees have told Reuters.
The luxury cars regularly require fixes before they can leave the factory, according to the workers. Quality checks have routinely revealed defects in more than 90 percent of Model S and Model X vehicles inspected after assembly, these individuals said, citing figures from Tesla’s internal tracking system as recently as October. Some of these people told Reuters of seeing problems as far back as 2012.
Tesla Inc said its quality control process is unusually rigorous, designed to flag and correct the tiniest imperfections. It declined to provide post-assembly defect rates to Reuters or comment on those cited by employees.
The world’s most efficient automakers, such as Toyota, average post-manufacturing fixes on fewer than 10 percent of their cars, according to industry experts. Getting quality right during initial assembly is crucial, they said, because repairs waste time and money.
At Tesla “so much goes into rework after the car is done ... that’s where their money is being spent,” a former Tesla supervisor said.
So what are the key issues being flagged in quality control checks? Oh, just minor issues like "doors not closing," "missing parts," and "water leaks..."
Defects included "doors not closing, material trim, missing parts, all kinds of stuff. Loose objects, water leaks, you name it," another former supervisor said. "We've been building a Model S since 2012. How do we still have water leaks?"
Quality inspectors would sometimes find more defects than those reported by workers in the internal tracking system when a car came off the line. “We’d see two issues, that’s pretty good. But then we’d dig in and there would be like 15 or 20,” one person said.
One persistently tricky area was alignment, where body parts had to be “muscled,” in the words of the senior manager, to a certain degree of flushness. Not every team follows the same rule book, workers said, resulting in gaps of different size.
vriendelijke groet
Peter de Waard
redacteur/columnist de Volkskrant
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