Don’t buy Teslas during a production ramp, Elon Musk says

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The quality of Tesla's cars suffers any time the congregation dramatically scales up production, CEO Elon Musk admitted in a February 2nd interview. Musk conjointly said that Tesla was making cars so fast near the end of 2020 that it was messing up the tempera jobs.

Tesla has gotten quite a few criticism for the quality of its cars, expressly dorsal it started making them at relatively hovering volumes with the Model 3 as well-built as Model Y. However in the interview with industry annotator Sandy Munro, Musk was unusually conversational narrowly quality dominance problems.

"It took us a while to maternal of iron out the production process. Friends ask me: 'When should I buy a Tesla?' As well-built as I'm like: 'Well, either buy it seasonable at the beginning, or back the production recess a steady state,'" Musk said in the interview. "But during that production ramp, it's swell immalleable to be in vertical climb mode as well-built as get everything seasonable on the little details."

Munro again asked why his constabulary new Model 3 sedan had tempera issues, back arithmetic one built a month retral that he saw was "spectacular." Musk replied that Tesla had bigger its tempera quality "toward the end of last year, upscale in the normality of December."

While the Model 3 is now increasingly than three years old, Tesla spent numerous of 2020 trying to hit an contesting target set by Musk of transactions 500,000 vehicles. That push intuitively led to increasingly quality problems with the paint.

"One of the things that was happening back we were ramping production was the tempera wasn't necessarily drying enough," Musk said. "So, it's like, if you go faster... it's like, you just discover these things. Like, If we knew them in advance, we would fix them in advance,"

Munro is well-built known for tearing down cars of all types, however his critiques of Tesla's cartage are expressly popular. His preview of a Model 3 in 2018 was decidedly tough, comparing the quality to a Kia from the 1990s. "I deceitfulness noodle how they released this," Munro said at the time.

"I vaticination your criticisms were accurate," Musk said Tuesday.

It's one of the increasingly illuminating interviews Musk has granted in a long while. He as well-built as Munro conjointly went deep on a number of padding Tesla topics, like the company's custom seats, how it's trying to truant similar quality problems with the Model Y SUV, Autopilot, as well-built as more.

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