Except that Toyota committed to a huge EV push last year.

I think they backed out of the market when they clearly weren’t profitable, but now see a vision going forward...

Parked next to a new model 3 the other day at the grocery store.

There are some very cool features and touches in that car.

And then there was the panel gap at the driver’s side door, which was approximately 6 mm wide at the top of the door and 2-3 mm wide at the bottom.  I know I worked for years spotting such defects…

Yep.  Sad because if you look at Google Earth’s historical imagery, you can see the ripped it out sometime between 1/17 and 3/17.  In 4/17, they started putting a new building on top of part of that land.  But they easily could have aligned that building elsewhere and kept the rail spur.  Or built a new rail spur…

Umm.. no, if you buy a vehicle in California but live in another state, CA will issue a special temporary permit to allow you to transfer the vehicle to that state (including driving it on the road). It only lasts a few days, and you’re expected to register the vehicle immediately upon arrival. In CA’s case, it’s a…

Any company worth spit has figured out how to make it work already. Why can’t Tesla?

Quite a few companies have warehouses or distribution centers that deal with 300+semis per day at each facility and they’re able to make it work still.  Tesla needs just a fraction of that and can’t figure out how to do it.

No other automaker is having these problems.

You can’t make up an excuse when its so blatantly false.

But no other manufacturer is having this problem.

Given that, it’s entirely Tesla’s poor management.

Actually, the Fremont plant doesn’t have rail loading capabilities anymore.

Tesla, in their infinite wisdom, tore all that out.

You know, it’s almost as if it was a really bad idea to demolish the rail loading area at the plant that GM/Toyota had used to successfully ship half a million vehicles per year from...

Most likely not.  Most states have arrangements for such a deal.  I’ve done it myself not that long ago.  

Although in your case it was a problem from a natural disaster that couldn’t be predicted. I mean, a well run business will have some sort of plan for dealing with it, and you did - but for Tesla this was entirely forseeable. You’re increasing production, you contract with carriers to increase their supply. Hell, do…

And all the fanbois were insisting that I had to have my head up my ass to say that Tesla’s claims were clearly bullshit....

Well, the average dealership sold 921 vehicles in 2014. With average ship times around 2-3 weeks, the average dealership should then have 55-62 days of inventory on their lot, or about 140-160 new vehicles (used are a whole nother story).

And to get to that number, you have to consider there are a LOT of dealerships…

This story is exactly why people are being foolish when they worry about subprime auto loans taking out the economy by causing banks to fail.

The banks won’t fail because of these deals. They’re structured so that the banks are virtually guaranteed to make money - its simply a question of how much money they make. The…

Yet another apologist screed.

The other automakers outsource the delivery from plant to dealer to logistics firms that know what they’re doing. Tesla is screwing this up as royally as they can by trying to reinvent the wheel without any good reason to.

The rest of your comment is just absurd. For one, the other…

ffs, dude - all the other companies have cleaned up this mess and figured it out already. Only Tesla is still unable to figure anything out.

I work in an industry where we rely very,very, very heavily on trucking.  Any company worth a damn has figured it out already.  Is it as easy as it used to be?  No, but its been…

Funny that Tesla is the only one with problems getting vehicles to dealers/stores on time.  The others are making it work despite this - why not Tesla?  You’re just making excuses for them.

No, but they did go bankrupt after introducing a “revolutionary” new product that captured a significant market share, so they very well could have that in common.

Yeah, funny how no other car company is having a problem with extreme shortages of car carriers... and no other car company is having problems getting cars from their factories to their customers.

It’s almost like Tesla is showing that they don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

Air France?  No, you’ve got that all wrong.  If it was Air France, the tanker would be on strike.