Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

mich800 wrote:

BenK wrote:
Yup...that happens in all of the industries been in...but...all parties agreed that the parts did not meet spec

Many times a combo of shipping costs are less if fixed locally...or...original vender’s production facilities would both be disrupted and/or not setup for that work and a big etc...

In this case...all sides are pointing fingers and urinating at each other...

Vender says built to spec...they are correct...

Tesla says doesn’t work...they are correct...

Another is that to ship some of these parts back would take too long...even if that vendor would agree to rework them...

Of course, there are many, many other scenarios and much more appeasing to the Fan-Boy base...

After actually reading the article one could come to the conclusion that Tesla is NOT a manufacturer. There is no way at this stage of production they should be doing this many on the fly design changes. Not that design changes do not happen but it sounds like these are issues that should have been corrected in the pre-production stage not running vehicles off the line for consumers.

Is any major car company a manufacturer any more?
Doesn't just everybody outsource the parts to vendors and then car company is just an assembler.