rmc523 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 https://www.autoblog.com/2020/12/13/tesla-model-s-x-production-stopped/ Tesla has plenty of demand for its electric cars despite the pandemic, but that doesn’t appear to extend to its highest-end EVs. CNBC has obtained an internal Tesla email revealing that the automaker will shut down production for the Model S and Model X between December 24th and January 11th, or 18 days. The company noted in a separate email that demand for its cars was “quite a bit higher” than supply during the quarter, according to the leak, so there’s clearly interest in the more affordable Model 3 and Model Y. As we've been saying, eventually Tesla will have problems when they just leave models unchanged for years on end. S and X sales are dropping, and demand has been hit so bad, they're stopping production of them for 18 days. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blwnsmoke Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Looking forward sir to how this news sir is spun positively. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dequindre Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 If Tesla sits on their hands, this will be detrimental. Tesla is successful because (1.) It used to have EVs that were completely unique to the market, and (2.) It is trendy. If they let their vehicles languish, they'll lose #2. As the recent Mustang Mach-e reviews demonstrate, Tesla is beginning to lose its stranglehold on #1 as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice-capades Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, blwnsmoke said: Looking forward sir to how this news sir is spun positively. Tesla's version of the Christmas holiday shut down. The mainstream media will probably ignore it. Edited December 16, 2020 by ice-capades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
92merc Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I'm sure they'll state that while they are down, they'll be doing quality improvement processes to make their cars even better than before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGR Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 So Tesla temporarily halts production of some models due to slow sales. BFD, every auto manufacturer does that. It only gets a thread here because so many here have Tesla Derangement Syndrome. It's about as worthless as that other "T" Derangement Syndrome. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blwnsmoke Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 hour ago, AGR said: So Tesla temporarily halts production of some models due to slow sales. BFD, every auto manufacturer does that. It only gets a thread here because so many here have Tesla Derangement Syndrome. It's about as worthless as that other "T" Derangement Syndrome. Pretty sure any time a manufacturer does this, try get their own thread too (including Ford), nice try. And I know exactly what Musk is doing. Stop producing the higher margin more expensive vehicles and push the hell out of the lower prices, lower margin vehicles so they can try to hit their sales goal so their stock keeps rising. Exactly why Musk is offering free supercharging now for new owners if they buy this month. Anything he can do to make that number regardless of profit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 hours ago, AGR said: So Tesla temporarily halts production of some models due to slow sales. BFD, every auto manufacturer does that. It only gets a thread here because so many here have Tesla Derangement Syndrome. It's about as worthless as that other "T" Derangement Syndrome. As blwnsmoke said, we'd report it regardless of Tesla or not. I want Tesla to succeed, as it's great to have more competition, and it's been impressive what they've done.....but there are certainly issues with their business - it's not all rainbows and unicorns that they want you to think. Like Ford with products it's let languish, sales will eventually taper off without fresh designs, and we're starting to see it. Model S is now 8 years old, with one style change that involved removing the faux grille and nothing else.....yes it's had "digital upgrades" in the sense of updates, but doesn't change the fact that it still looks mostly the same as 8 years ago. Model X isn't as old, but is now 5 years old, and hasn't changed at all. Like it or not, people want fresh designs, and they're pushing that to the limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGR Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Yeah right, I looked back through this forum, and didn't find any similar topics through at least page 5, which is back into Springtime. There might be some similar topics on the main Ford forum in that timeframe, but then Ford does this...a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 11 hours ago, AGR said: Yeah right, I looked back through this forum, and didn't find any similar topics through at least page 5, which is back into Springtime. There might be some similar topics on the main Ford forum in that timeframe, but then Ford does this...a lot. ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordBuyer Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 On 12/16/2020 at 9:58 PM, rmc523 said: As blwnsmoke said, we'd report it regardless of Tesla or not. I want Tesla to succeed, as it's great to have more competition, and it's been impressive what they've done.....but there are certainly issues with their business - it's not all rainbows and unicorns that they want you to think. Like Ford with products it's let languish, sales will eventually taper off without fresh designs, and we're starting to see it. Model S is now 8 years old, with one style change that involved removing the faux grille and nothing else.....yes it's had "digital upgrades" in the sense of updates, but doesn't change the fact that it still looks mostly the same as 8 years ago. Model X isn't as old, but is now 5 years old, and hasn't changed at all. Like it or not, people want fresh designs, and they're pushing that to the limit. So is that why Ford is now starting to do over the air updates and telling us they will be doing less redesigns in the future? Seems to me Ford has benchmarked Tesla and copying them.....the sincerest form of flattery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 On 12/18/2020 at 12:57 PM, FordBuyer said: So is that why Ford is now starting to do over the air updates and telling us they will be doing less redesigns in the future? Seems to me Ford has benchmarked Tesla and copying them.....the sincerest form of flattery. Just because one article said they where doing less redesigns (without any context to boot) doesn't mean they aren't updating sheetmetal or other hardpoints. Thats a bit of a stretch that Over the air updates would have that big of an impact that updates wouldn't be needed on an ICE product and only incremental improvements on a BEV. The reason Tesla is not doing updates because they have demand for their products, but their products are getting stale and there is going to be a hell of a lot more competition in the marketplace in the next 12-24 months to worry about. Not a good combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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