(this was reported Jun. 8th 2022 )
During a company-wide meeting Musk was asked by an employee when delivery cycles will level off to avoid the “insane end-of-quarter delivery push”.
The CEO responded:
“This has been a challenge since late 2008. There always seems to be something that happens and causes the end of the quarter to be nutty and this quarter will not be an exception – mostly because we had this huge challenge with the COVID restrictions in Shanghai. It basically shut down the Shanghai factory for much of the early part of the quarter. It is only now getting back to full production. It will be pretty intense this quarter.”
Musk tried to reassure employees that “unless something happens,” Tesla should have a “much smaller wave” next quarter and it should get gradually better as Gigafactory Berlin ramps up production and frees up capacity from Gigafactory Shanghai, which is currently exporting a lot of vehicles to Europe.
The CEO previously said that will probably not break another delivery record because of the production shutdown, but he hinted that Tesla could possibly still deliver close to 300,000 vehicles.
(the following was reported Jun. 12th 2022 )
Over the weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent emails to employees and Electrek has obtained copies.
In the first email, Musk tried to instill meaning about building Tesla products to workers:
“We actually* build great, real products that people love and make their lives and the world better. That is so profound. It is an honest day’s work that you can feel in your heart. Whatever else is going on in this messed-up world, know that at least what you are doing is pure goodness and that I have infinitely more respect and admiration for you than the richest person on Wall St.”*
The next email was more familiar. Musk often sends emails to rally the troops at the end of the quarter to push for deliveries and this is one of those emails. Here’s the email in full;
Production and Delivery
This has been a very tough quarter, primarily due to supply chain and production challenges in China, so we need to rally hard to recover!
I’d like to congratulate the Fremont team for achieving a new all-time record production day last week and Berlin for making almost 1000 cars last week! This is great stuff.
Shanghai is returning to full strength and Austin is spooling up. Onward to victory!
Elon
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