Heres what I've gathered from observations and emails, phone calls with tesla.
- Staff have no control on the flow of cars
From what I've gained from phone calls with Tesla, the staff do not have any control on the flow of cars. Pretty much when there were reservations and orders, an algorithms assigns them to be built in the factory, ships them to Australia, assigns a VIN number and then Tesla staff have to deliver it. The algorithm predicts future sales and orders based on previous deliveries and possibly reservations.
- The algorithm has failed to calculate the demand properly
From what I can see, I believe that the algorithm has failed to produce the correct number of cars. No one in Australia really expected the amount of demand for the Model 3 even when reservations were going on due to the luxury car tax, GST, stamp duty, cost of electricity, lack of charging infrastructure in certain locations, etc. I believe it was trained at a pretty low level since high price usually makes low demand.
- VIN assignment is completely random and does not follow a queue
Based on the chart thats been provided, we can see tons of queue jumping or people that just purchased their car and received it a few weeks later. I believe that either VIN assignment is completely random or its based on a certain selection of finance details.
- LR AWD has been left in the dust
Next to no-one that actually purchased the LR AWD have actually received their car, even with reservations, whats weird is around the same time the white interior Model 3 came out and many people that ordered the white interior on reservation have already received their car.
Also, these are just based on what I've seen and heard about. They do not represent anything with Teslas actual sales or on how the algorithm actually works. They are purely an observation.
