Telsa Claims 1 Out Of 10 Cars On The Assembly Line Need Additional Work To Meet Quality Control Standards

At a weekend invitation-only event for Tesla customers, the electric carmaker showed off its factory in Fremont, Calif., and “a reliable source with knowledge of the matter” told Electrek that Tesla is now producing “well over” 2,000 Model S and Model X vehicles in a regular production week. This immediately made headlines, and the company was declared to be well on its way to its goal of 500,000 cars by 2018. At the same event, someone at Tesla reportedly admitted that the impressive production line produces garbage, but nobody seemed to notice.
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MDarringer - 6/17/2016 9:18:00 AM

+4 Boost

That's a damning admission of poor quality.

Vette71 - 6/17/2016 10:17:46 AM

0 Boost

IF that 10% rework number is true it puts Tesla's production quality even worse than the nadir of the US auto industry in the 70's and 80's when many were obviously producing crap and relying on dealers to fix them. That cost them their reputation and opened the door for the Japanese. It has been a long climb out of that hole. Musk sitting at the end of the production line isn't going to fix the problem. Rushing the Model 3 through the design process likely means many of the problems in the S and X will reappear as no lessons have been learned that could be corrected in the Model 3 design for manufacturing and reliabilty. Haste makes waste.

SanJoseDriver - 6/17/2016 8:21:37 PM

+1 Boost

It really depends on what the rework entails. Are we talking rework like replacing the molding around a window or rebuilding a major structural component? In the first case it's really not worth stopping a line for those types of issues. Also, I wonder how much the Model X is bringing down the average. I remember them building about 1,000 of them until there was one with 0 defects. I have to imagine that the defect rate is still around 15-20% on the X and bringing down the overall average.