Only if these companies are in the habit of delivering cars missing various essential parts and expecting them to be fitted by the dealer when their supply chain eventually catches up.

No where does it mention Bleeding Cash, which is what you are doing by Air Freighting seats and displays to dealers.

Oh hell yes. I have a better chance of sprouting wings and flying around the room than Elio has ever building a vehicle.

...you can’t see the BOLT from the Driver’s Seat.

Dude...no one’s going to put the name “Tesla” on any car sold in the United States, if that brand is sold off for its parts. Go buy a 2018 Pontiac and post a photo of you in the front seat, if you want to argue with me on that.

Amazing faboi blinders. I am genuinely impressed.

Did...did you even read this article? They don’t prioritize safety; it says so above. They can’t meet demands. It says so above. Their founder admits they’re screwing up. It’s all right there, above all the other commenters who do not think Tesla is going to be making cars this time, ten years from now. It’s a common…

“just not fast enough” might be putting it mildly. The targets that they gave investors were never realistic in the first place, and then they shot themselves in the foot by not implementing soft-tooled prototype vehicles and pre-production pilot vehicles. As it’s implied, they might have actually extended the amount…

The problem is that he took pre-orders, and that he projected a progression in manufacturing capacity/volume that was unprecedented by a huge margin. Having a bunch of people ask for their money back wouldn’t be that big a deal if they pre-order got them over the hump to sustaining profitability, but it hasn’t. So now…

This. They have no path to profitability. They are capped at producing around 350 (250 on the 3 line and 100 on the S/X line) because of the paint shop. They don’t have the 4 billion or so to build a new factory and it will be hard to raise it given they have a burn rate of over a billion a quarter. They also need…

“where you avoid the annoying hassles of traditional dealerships”

I wouldn’t put it past other auto companies to try their best to make the situation worse.

Only if you are a techbro billionaire.

Oh, I’ll say it—Tesla will fail. It’s going to be an explosive failure. But Musk will make out just fine, probably after selling the company over to a legit manufacturer.

When Tesla unveiled the 3 and started taking orders, they were DEFINITELY touting the fact that they were less than $30k which isn’t true without the tax break. So even if their configurator doesn’t use that language, quite a few people signed up for the after-tax-deduction price.

Almost like how every single automotive OEM rolls out a new product line. Who could have possibly guessed that method works better than selling PPVs to your own employees and setting impossible production targets??

So, the problem is not that they can’t build game changing electric cars - and even one that it affordable like all of the experts originally said

The problem is that Musk said they had kick-ass algorithms that would let them skip pre-production without missing a beat and reach their volume goals ahead of time.

Selling cars well below production cost will not change the game, it’ll force Tesla to fold before the flop. Until they get rates up to where they predicted, they won’t have a chance of making money.

Cancel now so that you have a chance of receiving your deposit back before Chapter 7.