Tesla's Model 3 sedan gets over 325,000 reservations

[JohnnyRingo]

22. I saw a show about the Tesla Super Plant

and I know better than to doubt Musk's resolve to endeavor.

I suspect he plans to meet production quotas with the use of robotic assembly. However, once the line starts spewing out cars at faster than one a minute as he's proposing, quality problems invariably arise, regardless of how they're put together. At least that's been the rule in the past.

As for an electric being more simple, one has to consider that the engine pod arrives at the line fully assembled from another part of the plant (or another factory altogether). It's just plugged in like an electric unit as the car proceeds to final so assembly shouldn't be easier. Everyone is building an electric now, but no one has approached the yearly numbers for this Model E, including Tesla. Musk only plans to build 80,000 Models S and X this year combined.

As an aside, I see money to be made in the aftermarket industry printing fake grilles or faces for the smoothed over front end on the Model E. That ominous blank space just begs for custom personalizing.