Andyw2100
Well-Known Member
Do you really expect Tesla to find your train in a railyard somewhere and offload the cars onto a truck and drive them to you? Come on. Blaming Tesla for delays in railroad logistics is a bit ridiculous.
Perhaps blaming them for the actual delays in railroad logistics may be ridiculous, but I think Tesla may be due some criticism for making the decision to move to rail delivery in the first place, if rail delivery is typically much slower and less reliable than the methods Tesla has used in the past. I don't pretend to know the numbers, but whatever the dollars and cents cost savings are in putting a new Model S on a train instead of trucking it, they are being offset at least to some degree by the extra time Tesla employees are spending dealing with the brand new customers waiting for and inquiring about their cars. And more importantly, the lousy experience is leaving Tesla's newest customers feeling lukewarm, at best, about the company when they should be deliriously happy about it. Once you attach a dollars and cents cost to that, I don't think trains can be a winner in the long run.