They will need to start building them first - that starts in July (first month of the quarter for UK vehicles) so will be at least a couple of weeks before they have enough to start shipping.
The factory runs at capacity. Tesla try to build and complete the sale (hand over to the customer) within the same quarter, so they build the ones furthest away at the beginning of the quarter to allow for 4 weeks of shipping, then switch production to the nearer countries and then finally to the factory's local country at the end of the quarter. Therefore in these last few weeks the China factory has been producing vehicles for China and will now switch back to UK vehicles so the allotted quantity of vehicles for the quarter will all arrive and be handed over by the end of September.
Don't they sell out quickly? Hence there may not be any left by the time July comes along.I had quite a peculiar text (and call) yesterday from Tesla. I enquired about a trade-in price for my 2020 M3P, just to get a sense of the valuation as time goes on.
About an hour after I received it I got a call to let me know that there were inventory models in stock, but if I wanted one I'd have to pay in cash, and pay by tomorrow (today) otherwise I'd "probably have to wait until August". After the call I got an SMS saying the same thing.
I know the end of quarter push is real, but surely Tesla still sell cars in the other two months of a quarter? If the inventory cars are still there in July, I could presumably still buy one without them treating me like a second class citizen?
Seems that Tesla do have some regular sales people working for them after all - creating a false sense of urgency to try and get the sale by the end of the quarter.
