Elon Musk told Tesla employees in a new email obtained by Electrek that the automaker can still reach its 500,000 electric cars delivered in 2020, but it will have to ‘do everything out’ to achieve it.
Tesla is nearing the end of its year-end delivery momentum as it plans to deliver a record number of vehicles this quarter to reach 500,000 deliveries in 2020 – a long-standing goal for the automaker.
To reach the milestone. Tesla is expected to deliver more than 181,000 vehicles this quarter. That’s more than 40,000 vehicles compared to the latest quarterly delivery record, which was just achieved last quarter.
Earlier this month, we reported on Musk telling Tesla employees that they are seeing strong demand this quarter to reach the target, but that they need to increase production.
Now, with only a few days left in the year, Musk sent another email to Tesla employees obtained by Electrek.
In the email, he seems to believe that the goal is still achievable and motivates employees to come together to prove that skeptics are wrong:
“Please do everything to make it happen. This is a great milestone to mobilize the company around the achievement. All the critics who, just two years ago, said we would never succeed, also called our goal of half a million in 2020 “impossible”. Hell with them, we’re doing it! “
Musk is asking employees to help at the end of the line to bring more cars to customers at the end of the quarter:
“Special help would be appreciated at the end of the line to ensure that cars manufactured now can be delivered immediately, without any further improvements to the PDI, as there is simply not enough time for that.”
‘PDI’ probably refers to ‘pre-delivery inspection’. With only a few days left in the quarter, Tesla cannot expect to increase inspection efficiency and, instead, expect to increase capacity with more hands.
Vehicles manufactured at Fremont Factory and Gigafactory Shanghai would need a quick return of the production line to end customers to be counted as delivered in the fourth quarter.
Here is the full email:
After today, we only have 5 days to reach the historic milestone of 500,000 cars built and delivered.
Please do everything to make it happen This is a great milestone to mobilize the company around the achievement. All the critics who, just two years ago, said we would never succeed, also called our goal of half a million in 2020 “impossible”. Hell with them, we’re doing it!
Special help would be appreciated at the end of the line to ensure that cars manufactured now can be delivered immediately without any further improvements to the PDI, as there is simply not enough time for that.
I hope everyone has managed to spend some time with their loved ones this holiday season and have an amazing 2021 year.
Elon
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