Excellent summary of the
Excellent summary of the situation David. Monday Tesla will issue its quarterly report. It will not really clear up everything because it is now about 7 weeks since the end of the report period. Hopefully Tesla will say in a statement "This is how many cars we have delivered to customers." and "This is our current delivered to customers rate per week starting Jan 1st" Let's see. The thing I worry about when I read Blankenship's quote is this; He didn't say that Tesla IS producing, and delivering to customers 400 cars per week. He put in "a production flow CAPABLE OF delivering..." What does "capable of" mean if the company has about a zillion pre-orders. Either the company is or it isn't delivering 400 cars per week. If this was Steve Jobs or Jack Welch we could just trust the estimate. But, Tesla has consistently not met the production targets it set for itself. Thus, the topic has become news. Hopefully the statement Monday will erase all doubts, silence all critics, and show that indeed Tesla is delivering 400 units per week and cashing bank checks at that rate. It would be simple to silence the critics. Tesla could just create the same sales chart every single manufacturer of automobiles updates every month. Fingers crossed the report answers the questions and that the news is all good.
- ps Just came from the New England International Auto show. I still have never seen a Model S in person on the road, at a car show, or at the twice annual International Motor Press Association meetings (at which Fisker, and other EVs are very common). I know there was one at the Detroit show. Planning to visit the Natic Store soon to see if there is one on display.