While I admire what Elon Musk is trying to achieve, I can’t help think that Tesla are trying to run, before they can really walk & spreading themselves too thin.
They should concentrate on getting that Model 30 out in numbers (IMO) before doing all this other stuff.
From the article:
The Model 3 is behind schedule due to factory delays, a situation Mr Musk described recently as “production hell”.
The 46-year-old had been camping at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, to oversee battery production for the new cars. However, while the company had predicted it would make 1,500 Model 3 cars in the third quarter of 2017, in reality it only managed 260.
In car production, 1500 cars is peanuts so to only manage 260 cars in 3 months is not great.
By comparison:
from an article I found written in 2014, 1000 Mini’s roll off the production line at Oxford, per day!!
And the Qashqai is produced in Sunderland at a rate of one every 62 seconds.
Tesla should sort production out of the things they have committed to & then move onto other stuff. Or decide they don’t want to do a ‘car for the people’ type vehicle & concentrate on the whizz-bang stuff.