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Originally Posted by roflwaffle
The odd thing about this whole situation is that it's only a fiasco compared to what Elon said, not compared to EVs from other manufacturers. For instance, the Bolt was launched 20-months ago and sold 500+cars/month in it's first month out. It's now selling 1,000-1,400+ cars/month. Tesla starting point was a paltry 30 cars/month, but they reached 6,000+ cars/month in 12 months.
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Tesla is only doing well if you are judging by sales volume. If you judge the product launch and quality they are way behind established automakers.
The Bolt launch on schedule and delivered cars that meet current industry standards.
Tesla launched late and delivered essentially pre-production cars with a host of quality and fit issues. The panel fit has gotten better with time (likely as they tweek the tooling to fix issues that they are discovering building customer's cars.)
Time will tell how the long term quality turns out on cars build by hand, in a tent, by recently hired temp workers. It my experience that doesn't work too well. (Every time we add a shift we have quality issues even when the workers are trained and shadow experience workers for 4-6 weeks before during the job on their own)