Tesla’s Dirty Secret: It Was Banging Out Parts Of The Model 3 By Hand

As it turns out, Elon Musk’s warning earlier this year that the Tesla Model 3 roll out would be ‘production hell’ was an understatement.
In a damning – if unsurprising – report, the Wall Street Journal revealed Friday that Tesla managed to produce only a tiny fraction of the 1,500 Model 3 sedans that it promised customers because key parts of the cars are still being assembled by hand, far away from the assembly line at the company’s Fremont factory. As of a few weeks ago, the advanced assembly line that Tesla has long boasted about – and which it had spent billions upon billions in capex to build – wasn’t ready and the company was working frantically to try and finish it, while keeping the arrangement a secret from purchasers and investors.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 6, 2017.