“Tesla reaches production number of 1000 Model 3s per day”

Elon Musk informed Tesla employees in an email that the target of 1,000 Model 3s per day has now been met. The production of the Model 3 was especially a concern for Tesla until six months ago.

Elon Musk’s email is held by the website Electrek. The e-mail indicates that the number of 1,000 Model 3 cars produced in one day has been reached. Musk says it is now the top priority to stabilize this number of 1000 per day and calls on all employees to consider this their personal top priority as well.

These statements by Musk mean that the achieved production number of 1000 models per day will probably not be a fact every day. This corresponds to how it went when achieving previously set production numbers; once these were achieved, it often proved difficult to maintain those numbers consistently.

The recent 1,000 models per day means that, in theory, 7,000 Model 3s can be produced per week. That would be another step from the 5,000 achieved in a week in July. That number also turned out to be unstable; during the presentation of the recent, relatively favorable quarterly figures, an average of 4300 Model 3s were achieved in the third quarter and a peak of 5300.

The production problems of the Model 3, which still partly determine the current figures, mainly played a part six months ago and the time before that. Musk previously admitted that too much automation and too many robots were used in production at the Fremont factory. It is said that the Model 3, unlike the Model S and X, consists of a relatively large amount of steel, which means that more welding is required. Production was even temporarily halted in April to solve the problems with the automation.