Priit
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If Elon was interested in forcing this thread to grow, he would open up orders but limit them to 1 order per page, so we would only have 64 orders available currently. I could see the forum being flooded then ...
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Tesla Model 3 in Australia
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rohan_aus
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Hmm, for me it's still acting normal with the reservation page and usual info page?
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Cleared the cache and went in again. Same result.
just tried it again, same result, it goes to the US order page with no aust flag option. Its on the ipad.
Cleared the cache and went in again. Same result.
corndog
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Plus China is a LHD market, so makes zero sense for them not to produce LHD models there.
CuirousSquire
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There is no australian flag option to flick back to. Have you tried clearing your cache and see what happens? I havnt been browsing other country pages on the tesla website in months.
rohan_aus
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But on the model 3 page there's never been an Aus flag option cause it's not available here? The model S/X pages have it though.
Nope, cleared cache, still shows "Reserve" button on homepage, goes to reservation page.
matsoutback
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Unfortunately nothing has changed for me either, same re-direct to reserve page.
Come on, how hard would it be to put the order page up, sure we know we'll be whinging when the delivery date gets pushed out too, but we expected that (and have been conditioned to wait).
Come on, how hard would it be to put the order page up, sure we know we'll be whinging when the delivery date gets pushed out too, but we expected that (and have been conditioned to wait).
jontyh
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I think we're going to have to wait until the morning of Tuesday 4 June for the config to open.
Having had business dealings with US companies on the West Coast, my reasoning is:
The config can't open until after the SUTI date of Sat 1 June.
The config page and decision to go live is driven from the factory in Fremont, California.(i can't see such a global site having any Australian input)
California is 16 hours behind us, so assuming office hours of 0800-1600, the config page goes live overnight on Monday night or, more likely, during the sweet spot on our Tuesday morning 0800-1000 when it's 1500-1700 Monday afternoon over there.
Having had business dealings with US companies on the West Coast, my reasoning is:
The config can't open until after the SUTI date of Sat 1 June.
The config page and decision to go live is driven from the factory in Fremont, California.(i can't see such a global site having any Australian input)
California is 16 hours behind us, so assuming office hours of 0800-1600, the config page goes live overnight on Monday night or, more likely, during the sweet spot on our Tuesday morning 0800-1000 when it's 1500-1700 Monday afternoon over there.
Priit
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We have seen many changes to Australian site and otherwise from Tesla happen on Sundays before, so I do not believe it being a weekend will affect that change going live. It may be affected by other factors like a large backlog of orders from UK, they need to start clearing? Or delays in the volume production on RHD models, as they still have not registered more VIN-s for the RHD models?
tom_kauf
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Yes, potentially close to half price.
Elon in the last Earnings Call: "We can now build a 2nd Generation Model 3 Line in China, that we expect will be at least 50% cheaper per unit than our Model 3 related Lines in Freemont and at Gigafactory 1"
EDIT: And cheaper Freight costs.
The US factories are robot-heavy, which is a high initial cost but saves labour costs. China could have a good mix of robots and manual labour. It's no secret that one 1st-world employee (even fairly low-wage auto workers) gets in 1 hour what 8-10 Chinese workers get.
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