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Tesla Air-Freights Production Machinery from Europe
Tesla Inc. has shipped six plane loads of production machinery from its German engineering unit to Utah in a bid to speed up battery output for its Model 3 electric cars, sources tell Reuters.
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Tesla Inc. has shipped six plane loads of production machinery from its German engineering unit to Utah in a bid to speed up battery output for its Model 3 electric cars, sources tell Reuters.
Tesla declines to comment. Reuters says the costly transport option underscores the urgency of company’s need to overcome persistent manufacturing glitches. Such bottlenecks have repeatedly undercut Tesla’s production targets for the Model 3, a car deemed critical for the company’s financial future.
In this case, engineers from Tesla Grohmann Automation GmbH in Pruem, Germany, are revising the battery cell production line at Tesla’s Megafactory in Utah. Tesla bought the company, then called Grohmann Engineering, in November 2016.
Reuters says the production line will be reconfigured to be relatively labor intensive, then gradually add automation. Tesla CEO Elon Musk conceded last month that “excessive” automation was difficult to implement and declared that “humans are underrated” in manufacturing.
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