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Tesla Sets Up Production Under the Big Top
Tesla Inc. has set up a manual production line under a huge tent outside its assembly plant in California to hike production of its Model 3 electric sedan.
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Tesla Inc. has set up a manual production line under a huge tent outside its assembly plant in California to hike production of its Model 3 electric sedan.
The tent, about the size of two football fields, houses a labor-intensive assembly line cobbled together in three weeks from “spare parts” borrowed from the main factory, according to CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla erected the 137,300 sq-ft structure in a bid to meet its target of boosting weekly output of Model 3s to 5,000 units by the end of June.
Two years ago, Musk predicted the company would churn out at least 100,000 of the EVs in the second half of last year. But production was delayed, and the company assembled only 9,800 cars in the first quarter of 2018.
Musk describes the tent-plant as “pretty sweet,” tweeting last week that the installation is “way better” than Tesla’s actual assembly plant. Detractors tell Bloomberg News the makeshift line is likely to result in low productivity and abominable quality.
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