Elon to push Model 3 production from 4400 to 7000 per week

Tesla will try to reach and sustain Model 3 production capacity of 7,000 units by November 28th. Elon Musk will walk the entire Model 3 production line, from battery cell production to final assembly, on the 27th and 28th. Elon Musk wants all production subsystems to produce 50 units per hour. This is needed for 1,000 vehicles per day, by the end of his second day on the line:

“By the 28th, all Model 3 production subsystems need to be at 50+ UPH steady, which is what’s needed for a true 1000 vehicles per day rate (taking equipment uptime into account). To be clear, this includes all lines for a particular subsystem, so, for example, general assembly UPH would include both GA3 lines plus GA4.”

Musk asked production workers to reach out to him if they see problems that would stop them from achieving the production rate by this new deadline in order for him to get involve ahead of time.

If Tesla can sustain 7000 Model 3 per week from Nov 28 to Dec 31 this will boost total production for the quarter from 62,000 to about 72,000.

48 thoughts on “Elon to push Model 3 production from 4400 to 7000 per week”

  1. A horrendous symptom it is. In other words I am saying that we keep on tweaking our natural settings before we understand the consequences of it and our retarded research methods fail to account fully for the deteriorating changes that result.

  2. A lot of sarcasms ! Maybe for the right reason . . .or for the wrong ?

    Did Elon Musk or Tesla actually say “he will walk the entire Model 3 production line” or is it another example of Mr Wang sad way of messing with the English language ?

    I don’t know I ask the question . . .

  3. Life expectancy was probably 40 in the time of the Romans and 32 in the time of old Egypt. Didn’t live long enough to get cancer.

  4. Batteries are DC, not AC and have a magnetic, not an electromagnetic field. That filed is contained within the conductors and does not extend externally. Cell phones do not cause cancer. The rise in cancers are more directly related to industrial food production e.g. nitrates and other chemical additives. Cancer rates have not been rising exponentially since Roman times, if they had they would be far higher than they are today. Other than that everything you said is true

  5. That is what I figured you would say at least till you or one of your loved ones get it. Then it will be more than a symptim to you. I would not wish that on anyone!

  6. “Do try to keep things in context.”

    Context:

    Having built a car company that employs thousands, having built a Roadster, a sedan, a SUV and now a smaller sedan Mr Musk lacks management intelligent enough to increase production and must walk the production line himself to wrangle out a 40% increase. Nobody else can do this. Nobody else at the company can fix things. There are no adults in management.

    Obviously the people who he pays to do this can’t do their jobs. I mean that is why they get a paycheck- to manage his production line and yet here we are taking a two day vacation to have the CEO walk the line, lay hands on the machines and heal them.

    It reminds me of all the times Steve Jobs would walk the iPhone assembly lines in China to optimize them.

    Or all the times when Dennis Muilenburg walks the 787 dreamliner production line to optimize it.

    Either this is a marketing Kool-aid-puff-piece or God help Tesla because nobody there apart from Mr Musk who can figure out how to make things work.

    I don’t care either way. While driving in to work today drove past a prototype Audi eTron SUV. Michigan plates (license# 066922 yes I took a picture), that weird WWI paint style to make it hard to make out its shape. Looked great. I mistook it for a Porsche.

    Herbert Diess doesn’t walk the production line at Audi trying to work miracles. Because his company already knows how to assemble cars.

    So that’s the real context. Electric cars are coming very soon from companies who know how to make cars.

  7. Our high death rates from cancer are absolutely the result of our lifestyle.
    If we went back to Roman practices of no vaccinations, no antibiotics, infant mortality of 75%, disease laden water, walking through animal manure on every street, and much higher rates of murder and war death then the % of people who die from cancer would plummet.

  8. While I am little bit disappointed that Tesla Model 3 produtcion is behind schedule (nthing new here), it as become clear and it has to be noted that the production rate has exploded in the months after January 2018 and in the past months.
    So even if it takes a month or two more, or even three four more months I would still expect Model 3 to readh 7000/wk capacity

    Luca Mazza

  9. 1) no other engineers? Mr Musk pushed for the “Alien Dreadnought” production line and had it fail him
    2) nobody else can talk to the workers? Sounds like bad management
    3) Again no other competent managers?

    Sounds like Tesla has serious problems with management if it needs Mua’Dib to step down from the Spice High and dirty himself with making it all work.

    Next week’s headline: Mr Musk (PBUH) takes over Tesla’s self driving code stack.

  10. How come the great leader is waiting so long to walk the production line? Does he need a full moon to illuminate his steps?

    I mean this sounds decidedly cult-of-personality-ish.

  11. I wonder if Tesla has implemented TPA, which is more or less the innovations created by Dr W. Edwards Deming, first rejected by Detroit, then embraced by Japanese industry, and finally embraced by Detroit, after the cat was out of the bag. Toyota is where it is, only because Deming’s work was rejected by American industry. It wasn’t the way things were done there.
    I was working at a plant, while the system was being adopted. Once fully adopted it simultaneously improved quality, productivity, and employee morale. It’s quite a system/philosophy/toolset.

  12. Musk is building an enormous organization from the ground up with the intent of changing an industry. If he’s still walking the line in 15 years, then yes, that will be a problem. For now, however, he needs to impart his ways upon the company, and that requires his presence.

    Do try to keep things in context.

  13. To be fair:
    1) Musk has the technical competence to know what he’s looking at.
    2) Musk asks the people on the floor what’s happening so he understands ground truth.
    3) Musk takes personal responsibility for and spearheads solutions to problems.

    Musk earned his “cult of personality”.

  14. Will Mr Musk ride to the production line on a Unicorn or fly there on a Pegasus?

    Does he lift Mjlonir before or after walking the line?

    Once he strings the bow of Apollo who will he first strike?

    Do they line the path of production with rose petals?

    Is Mr Musk doing this because Hercules wasn’t available and the Emperor of Mankind can’t leave the Golden Throne?

    Does Tesla employ nobody else capable of fixing things?

  15. Maybe Mr Musk needed to wait for the Royal Hagiographer before taking his solemn walk of industrial optimization.

    I’m sorry, did I miss some Kool Aid?

  16. Reads like:

    “Kim Jong Un will walk the entire Model 3 production line, from battery cell production to final assembly, on the 27th and 28th. Kim wants all production subsystems to produce 50 units per hour.”

  17. And R. Kimhi, need I point out to you we are about to cure cancer. Once we do and it is as treatable as a hangnail,l will you be all for it then, are your objections just paranoid fluff?

  18. Right, in reality nothing has been achieved. Soon we will realize that the electromagnetic field of this huge batteries contributes to cancer way more than cell phones and we we will move our attention to walking, air pressure and liquefied air batteries as we should have by now. To the nay sayers I will remind in advance that cancer rates has been rising exponentially, two orders of magnitude since the time of the the Romans and the ancient Egyptians. We think that have checked for everything parameter by parameter but we have not really evaluated the overall impact of our life style.

  19. A horrendous symptom it is. In other words I am saying that we keep on tweaking our natural settings before we understand the consequences of it and our retarded research methods fail to account fully for the deteriorating changes that result.

  20. A lot of sarcasms ! Maybe for the right reason . . .or for the wrong ?

    Did Elon Musk or Tesla actually say “he will walk the entire Model 3 production line” or is it another example of Mr Wang sad way of messing with the English language ?

    I don’t know I ask the question . . .

  21. Batteries are DC, not AC and have a magnetic, not an electromagnetic field. That filed is contained within the conductors and does not extend externally. Cell phones do not cause cancer. The rise in cancers are more directly related to industrial food production e.g. nitrates and other chemical additives. Cancer rates have not been rising exponentially since Roman times, if they had they would be far higher than they are today. Other than that everything you said is true

  22. “Do try to keep things in context.”

    Context:

    Having built a car company that employs thousands, having built a Roadster, a sedan, a SUV and now a smaller sedan Mr Musk lacks management intelligent enough to increase production and must walk the production line himself to wrangle out a 40% increase. Nobody else can do this. Nobody else at the company can fix things. There are no adults in management.

    Obviously the people who he pays to do this can’t do their jobs. I mean that is why they get a paycheck- to manage his production line and yet here we are taking a two day vacation to have the CEO walk the line, lay hands on the machines and heal them.

    It reminds me of all the times Steve Jobs would walk the iPhone assembly lines in China to optimize them.

    Or all the times when Dennis Muilenburg walks the 787 dreamliner production line to optimize it.

    Either this is a marketing Kool-aid-puff-piece or God help Tesla because nobody there apart from Mr Musk who can figure out how to make things work.

    I don’t care either way. While driving in to work today drove past a prototype Audi eTron SUV. Michigan plates (license# 066922 yes I took a picture), that weird WWI paint style to make it hard to make out its shape. Looked great. I mistook it for a Porsche.

    Herbert Diess doesn’t walk the production line at Audi trying to work miracles. Because his company already knows how to assemble cars.

    So that’s the real context. Electric cars are coming very soon from companies who know how to make cars.

  23. Our high death rates from cancer are absolutely the result of our lifestyle.
    If we went back to Roman practices of no vaccinations, no antibiotics, infant mortality of 75%, disease laden water, walking through animal manure on every street, and much higher rates of murder and war death then the % of people who die from cancer would plummet.

  24. While I am little bit disappointed that Tesla Model 3 produtcion is behind schedule (nthing new here), it as become clear and it has to be noted that the production rate has exploded in the months after January 2018 and in the past months.
    So even if it takes a month or two more, or even three four more months I would still expect Model 3 to readh 7000/wk capacity

    Luca Mazza

  25. Musk is building an enormous organization from the ground up with the intent of changing an industry. If he’s still walking the line in 15 years, then yes, that will be a problem. For now, however, he needs to impart his ways upon the company, and that requires his presence.

    Do try to keep things in context.

  26. 1) no other engineers? Mr Musk pushed for the “Alien Dreadnought” production line and had it fail him
    2) nobody else can talk to the workers? Sounds like bad management
    3) Again no other competent managers?

    Sounds like Tesla has serious problems with management if it needs Mua’Dib to step down from the Spice High and dirty himself with making it all work.

    Next week’s headline: Mr Musk (PBUH) takes over Tesla’s self driving code stack.

  27. To be fair:
    1) Musk has the technical competence to know what he’s looking at.
    2) Musk asks the people on the floor what’s happening so he understands ground truth.
    3) Musk takes personal responsibility for and spearheads solutions to problems.

    Musk earned his “cult of personality”.

  28. Will Mr Musk ride to the production line on a Unicorn or fly there on a Pegasus?

    Does he lift Mjlonir before or after walking the line?

    Once he strings the bow of Apollo who will he first strike?

    Do they line the path of production with rose petals?

    Is Mr Musk doing this because Hercules wasn’t available and the Emperor of Mankind can’t leave the Golden Throne?

    Does Tesla employ nobody else capable of fixing things?

  29. How come the great leader is waiting so long to walk the production line? Does he need a full moon to illuminate his steps?

    I mean this sounds decidedly cult-of-personality-ish.

  30. Reads like:

    “Kim Jong Un will walk the entire Model 3 production line, from battery cell production to final assembly, on the 27th and 28th. Kim wants all production subsystems to produce 50 units per hour.”

  31. I wonder if Tesla has implemented TPA, which is more or less the innovations created by Dr W. Edwards Deming, first rejected by Detroit, then embraced by Japanese industry, and finally embraced by Detroit, after the cat was out of the bag. Toyota is where it is, only because Deming’s work was rejected by American industry. It wasn’t the way things were done there.
    I was working at a plant, while the system was being adopted. Once fully adopted it simultaneously improved quality, productivity, and employee morale. It’s quite a system/philosophy/toolset.

  32. And R. Kimhi, need I point out to you we are about to cure cancer. Once we do and it is as treatable as a hangnail,l will you be all for it then, are your objections just paranoid fluff?

  33. Right, in reality nothing has been achieved. Soon we will realize that the electromagnetic field of this huge batteries contributes to cancer way more than cell phones and we we will move our attention to walking, air pressure and liquefied air batteries as we should have by now. To the nay sayers I will remind in advance that cancer rates has been rising exponentially, two orders of magnitude since the time of the the Romans and the ancient Egyptians. We think that have checked for everything parameter by parameter but we have not really evaluated the overall impact of our life style.

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