Yet Another Design Flaw wrote:
https://electrek.co/2019/03/05/tesla-model-3-design-flaw-underbody/
LOL at zerohedge calling another publication a rag. And then acting like a dirty undercarriage is a major design flaw. I can promise you that 99% of owners will never know if there is dirt under their cars. And apparently a knock with a wrench fixes it, so driving 100 meters on a bumpy road once or twice a year would too.
USA media a bit slow on this one, probably waiting to see if it was a Hoax. A Tesla Model S owner crashed his vehicle into a river near a Supercharger station in China and he claims that the vehicle accelerated on its own – in yet another alleged event of unintended acceleration.
On Wednesday, a Tesla Model S jumped into a river next to the Tesla Qingpu District Supercharger in Shanghai under some strange circumstances.
Local Chinese media reported (translated from Chinese):
“When the reporter rushed to the scene in Qingpu District, the owner Xiao Chen had just been rescued ashore, and the gray Tesla was still lying in the river and was soaked in the water. Xiao Chen is still in shock, he told reporters: I was from the beginning stepping on the brakes, and the car suddenly rushed out of control! It turned out that Xiao Chen and his wife drove the car to school in the morning of the incident. After the delivery, they came to the Tesla Supercharger station to prepare for charging. According to Xiao Chen, he kept driving very slowly, stepping on the brakes, but when he got there, the car was out of control.
The Model S ended up going through a fence and plunging in the river.
Fortunately, it apparently hit shallow water and both the driver and passenger were able to quickly get out – resulting in this picture:
https://twitter.com/ShanghaiJayin/status/1103178324900077568https://electrek.co/2019/03/10/tesla-crash-river-claim-unintended-accelerated/Based on the complaints, Hansen claimed that Tesla:
https://electrek.co/2019/03/11/tesla-former-security-manager-corroborates-claim-large-theft-criminal-activity-gigafactory-1/Failing to disclose to shareholders that $37 million worth of copper and other raw materials were stolen from the Gigafactory in the first half of 2018;
Spying on employees, specifically by wiretapping and hacking their cell phones and computers;
Failing to disclose to local law enforcement and to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency that Gigafactory employees may have been in drug trafficking; and
Retaliating against Hansen for raising such issues, internally, by firing him in mid-July.
As part of Tesla’s reversal of its sales and pricing strategy, the automaker is also again changing Autopilot prices, which are coming ‘back to normal’ on Monday, says CEO Elon Musk.
https://electrek.co/2019/03/12/tesla-autopilot-prices-back-to-normal-elon-musk/Tesla’s many recent price changes were controversial but none more than those relating to its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving packages because the automaker changed pricing on software updates that it never delivered.
The automaker also presented the offering to buyers as costing less if they order the software before delivery – incentivizing them to do so, but after price changes last month, they would have saved thousands of dollars if they would have waited for features they never got.
Now Musk says that the prices are going to ‘revert back to normal’ on Monday March 18th:
Unclear whether this reservation is just a "wait in line" cost like with other Tesla deposits, or is actually applicable to the price when/if the product emerges.
We Need Your Help! wrote:
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-asks-employees-help-delivering-30000-cars-end-quarter-2019-3
So how is this supposed to work?
They are stopping to work at the Tesla brand after the shift and drive a car somewhere and hitch home, hopefully making the next days shift?
Sounds like a well thought out plan.
So how is this supposed to work?
They are stopping to work at the Tesla brand after the shift and drive a car somewhere and hitch home, hopefully making the next days shift?
Sounds like a well thought out plan.
Delivering cars after it produces them has become a recurring pain point for Tesla. In September, CEO Elon Musk said the company was transitioning from “production hell” to “logistics hell.” Employees have recounted an all-hands-on-deck approach to deliveries, with one worker saying he drove a car three hours to deliver it to a waiting customer before taking an Uber back on the company’s dime.
Currently there is significant new inventory of Model S and Model X listed for sale on Tesla’s website for most of its major markets. It is worth noting that while Tesla was originally a build to order company in 2018 in order to solve “production hell” Tesla switched to large scale batch manufacturing of various configurations of each model (paint color, interiours, et cetera.) The consequence of this strategic decision is that Tesla ends up with excess production of unpopular configurations.
Err, just don't make the unpopular ones in the first place?
Naturally, the stock responded as a result, immediately trading off of its lows near $263 and moving higher - quickly - by $10, into green territory for the day.
Tesla has delayed its planned price increase by two days. The automaker claims to have been “unable to process all orders”, but what this basically amounts to is a temporary discount also conveniently occurring at the end of the quarter.
Really? Unable to process all orders? I wish Tesla would be more honest about this.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you are really not finished processing all orders, just finish them for those people who placed the orders.
Instead, they are leaving it open for people to place more orders at a discount and therefore, I believe the real reason they are doing this is that they need more orders by the end of the quarter.
I think it’s fairly obvious.
After several weird moves this quarter, I believe Tesla is under a pretty severe cash crunch — likely due in part to higher than expected costs of bringing Model 3 to Europe and China.
Now, they are trying to get as many orders as they can to deliver every car they can make at the end of the quarter. It’s also mostly in the US, where the less expensive versions of the Model 3 are available, which is going to help reduce the number of vehicles in transit at the end of the quarter.
In the latest incident to take place while a Tesla car was on Autopilot, at least that is what the driver has said, occurred in Hong Kong. Multiple dashcams show a Tesla Model S accelerating into slow-moving traffic and sideswipes two cars before crashing into the rear of a large truck.
Tesla Hong Kong will investigate.
http://ananova.news/tesla-driver-blames-computer-for-crashing-model-3/