In Denmark when a car reaches 6 years, it needs to be safety checked to be used on the roads. After that it’s every 2nd years.
Tesla model 3 managed these safety checks extremely poorly, with 3 times the average failure rate.
In total, 1,392 errors were found on the Tesla model, which is three times as many compared to the other electric cars.
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This goes back to pre-Musk Tesla. Their original idea was to treat car manufacture as a greenfield problem, and they deliberately didn’t hire anyone from the “legacy” industry. They assumed that their knowledge of high-tech manufacturing and supply-chain optimization would be much better than anything existing carmakers were doing. But they soon discovered that Teslas are, in most ways, just like other cars, and the brilliant manufacturing processes they came up with weren’t really any different than those of any other carmaker, except the quality was worse. So at some point, a while before Musk stuck his nose in, they started quietly recruiting industry veterans to sort out the quality issues, which kept getting worse as production scaled up.
Since Musk has been in, the progress that Tesla had made in addressing quality has again gone down the shitter, due to his arrogance and inability to grasp engineering detail.
Tesla started in July of 2003 and Musk showed up in February of 2004 with VC money, becoming employee number 4 IIRC. How many vehicles do you figure that Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Write built in their garage before Elon showed up? Couple hundred maybe?
Musk has been involved since 9 months after Eberhard and Tarpenning started the company. He was involved with the design of the Roadster, which he and others won an award for in 2006. That was two years before he became the CEO.
Elon is a disappointment and has truly become another billionaire douchebag jackass but that’s no reason to rewrite history. Practically speaking Elon has been involved with Tesla since the beginning.
Yeah I just joked with my wife that Musk probably told the engineers to cut the number of parts in the steering from 5 to 3.
Obviously simplified, since it’s way more parts. In general it’s true that fewer parts is better, but Musk is absolutely insane on the idea, to the degree that basic functionality suffers or is even completely removed.
I admit I was actually very impressed with Tesla early on, and the Tesla S, and I cheered for them. They helped make electric cars cool IMO. But I quickly began to notice things that I did not like at all. Like his insane promises on FSD when he discontinued cooperation with a company that actually knew what they were doing. His reaction was to spew bullshit about how Tesla was leading the field.
Also his complete disregard for conditions in the work place, both safety and regarding racism. And his claim that working for him was a “lifestyle” helping to change the world.
That last part was an enormous red flag! That this man is likely an insane megalomaniac.
I really really hope the Nazi salutes will backfire in a big way. But probably not.