Posted on 09/07/2021 12:37:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Model Y is Tesla’s newest available vehicle and also the company’s most popular car in several markets, including the United States...
In February, Tesla officially filed to have the spring structure made permanent by filing with the City of Fremont to add a 64,000 square foot expansion to the factory. In July, Tesla officially started making GA 4.5 a permanent part of the company’s production facility by adding underground sewer connections for plumbing and creating foundational work for the spring structure to sit on...
Tesla has been making tremendous strides toward improving GA 4.5, especially as demand for the company’s vehicles has increased over the past few years. Tesla is currently struggling with keeping up with demand because it has just one operational plant in North America. Tesla has been able to avert production stoppages from semiconductor shortages by developing its own microcontrollers in-house. However, demand has pushed the projected delivery of some vehicles back to 2022.
According to the company’s most recent Shareholder Deck, the Fremont factory currently produces 500,000 Model 3 and Model Y units per year. Because the two vehicles are Tesla’s most popular products, the company is working on expanding the production capacity to keep up with growing demand. Tesla will soon have assistance with Model Y production for North America as Giga Texas will begin manufacturing the all-electric crossover later this year. Additionally, Tesla’s global production rate of the Y will expand once again later this year when production at Giga Berlin, the company’s first European production facility, begins.
(Excerpt) Read more at teslarati.com ...
The other day I think I posted that the shakeout run for the Cybertruck had started at Austin's plant, but it turns out I'd remembered that wrong, and it was Model Y. Production could start rolling by Christmas. Meanwhile, Ford and GM have been struggling to produce vehicles, with a series of plant closings scattered back across the 2021 calendar.
Tesla Megapack batteries are powering Britain’s largest energy storage project
Simon Alvarez
Posted on September 7, 2021
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-batteries-uk-largest-energy-storage/
more archival material about the future UK gigafactory:
https://www.google.com/search?q=britain+tesla+battery+plant
We went new truck shopping over the weekend.
Dealer told us that the 2022’s would have a 10k price increase, and that all their inventory was already sold.........................
Is it true that Musk has implemented the following models… S, E, X, and Y?
“Dealer told us that the 2022’s would have a 10k price increase,”
Don’t buy a new car yet, the New Car market will crash soon. If you buy now, you will be upside down on the value of the truck when the bubble pops.
The E is actually the 3, because Ford had a model E about 120 years ago. I once saw a photo of one from a guy’s father’s collection. So, S3XY, but we know what Elon’s up to...
Oh, sorry, I think it was the ‘32 Model B that I saw in photo. Just to be confusing, Ford reused some of the letters, including for a much earlier Model B.
Yes. S3XY.
(Notice the stylized 3 and E are the same.)
Upon introducing the Model Y, Musk presented all four models, in that order, and then stated it concluded the world’s most expensive joke.
There were stories, about a month ago, that electric vehicles were being returned at the rate of about 20-30%, because of range and recharge problems, especially in California, where electric power is very unreliable and recharging is impossible with power gone.
[snip] University of California Davis researchers surveyed just over 4,000 households who own or owned electric vehicles in California and found that about 20% of plug-in hybrid owners and 18% of all-electric vehicle owners end up going back to gasoline-powered vehicles...
“Here, on the basis of results from five questionnaire surveys, we find that PEV discontinuance in California occurs at a rate of 20% for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle owners and 18% for battery electric vehicle owners. We show that discontinuance is related to dissatisfaction with the convenience of charging, having other vehicles in the household that are less efficient, not having level 2 (240-volt) charging at home, having fewer household vehicles and not being male.” [/snip]
https://electrek.co/2021/04/29/study-why-some-electric-car-owners-gas-reasons-surprising/
The 2021 models of cars and trucks have been in short supply, have been selling at no discounts apparently, long waits, and the demand for used vehicles and hence their prices have been greatly increased.
The local new car dealer has had a large used lot for three years or so, both straight recent-model used and certified, and by late spring this year it was completely shuttered, no cars in the lot, and the used inventory was brought over into the (multibrand) new side of their complex to conceal the dearth of new inventory.
Based on some recent repairs on my poor old beater, the parts prices have increased as well, because more people are repairing in the face of no new vehicles and/or the high prices of new and used.
We’re not, we’re waiting.
Even the 2021 trucks that are still left on the lot are over-sticker priced and non-negotiable...................
Yes, the salesman told us that people are paying MORE THAN STICKER PRICE to get a new vehicle, especially trucks, like we are looking to buy.
The Ford and Chevy dealers lots are EMPTY of new car vehicles except trucks and a few SUVs, the most expensive ones.
And yes, I noticed they had moved their used inventory around to the new side of the lot to make it look like they had lots of cars, but even the used cars are getting scarce.
We went to one dealer and saw a truck we were interested in, used 2018, 50k miles, ‘special edition’, lots of accessories. It was listed at $45k.
We made an offer of $40k and he said he wouldn’t even take that to his boss, so we left................
Scotty whatshisname on YouTube suggests that we keep an eye out for friends and neighbors who had planned to trade in their vehicle on a new one, and offer to buy the vehicle directly. Clearly he’s a mechanic, and not in sales. :^)
Best thing is to keep the old stuff running, and if you live (as I do) in a remote area, pick up a beater (or another one, in my case) to keep from getting stranded. Next year supplies will loosten up some, and probably a lot. We’ll be seeing an uptick in Japanese vehicles and dealers, and more from Europe (Peugeot and Fiat/Alfa).
I suspect the Chinese are going to continue to decline, and while that’s not necessarily a majority view in the first place, they’ve been ruled by a ruthless dictator during their going-on-two-year-long coronocrap, and he’s been screwing them and screwing up bigtime.
Even Toyota and Nissan dealers are running short of cars.
As is Mazda, Subaru, and Mitsubishi.
Hyundai and KIA seem to have full lots, for now.
The Dodge dealer still has lots of the overpriced stuff like Challengers and Jeeps...............
They're a huge bargain then.
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