Tesla Reports Q4 and 2020 Full Year Operational Performance
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights electric auto maker Tesla’s final 2020 quarterly and full year operational performance.
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Revelation That Tesla Was Very Close to Bankruptcy
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights last week’s revelation from Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk that the electric automaker was within a week of declaring bankruptcy during the 2018-2019 production ramp-up of the Model 3 sedan.
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Tesla Motors Q3 Operational Performance- Extraordinary and Again Concerning
The Supply Chain Matters blog once again reflects on Tesla Motors recently reported quarterly operations performance and the potential conflict relative to meeting shareholder expectations and social responsibility practices.
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Tesla’s Battery Day- Aspirations Meet Manufacturing and Supply Network Realities
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Tesla’s Battery Day event held this week and the aggressive goals established in order to produce 20 million vehicles annually. We share our perspective that lofty goals and under delivering is not the cocktail of long-term success.
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New Developments Compound Supply and Demand Network Challenges for Tesla Motors
Over the last couple of weeks, there have been a number of additional developments related to electric automaker Tesla Motors. This Supply Chain Matters commentary provides our readers our added perspectives from a supply and demand network perspective.
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Tesla Motors Breaks Ground for China Manufacturing Facility and Once Again Declares Aggressive Goals
Amid a highly publicized groundbreaking ceremony, Tesla Motors embarked on construction and operational ramp-up of a new manufacturing plant located in China. Once again, CEO Elon Musk publicly stated aggressive, perhaps unrealistic operational goal setting. The question becomes transferred learning.
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Tesla Motors Reports Q4 and Full-Year 2018 Production and Delivery Performance
Tesla Motors today reported quarter-ending and full year 2018 operating performance numbers and the company’s investors did not seem pleased by the results.
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Tesla Motors Production and Supply Chain Challenges Potentially Take a New Turn
The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers on Tesla’s production and supply chain management ramp-up challenges, new tell-all reports and a report of a building criminal probe related to Model 3 product ramp-up statements that are casting a much more concentrated eye on the electric auto maker’s operations.
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Tesla’s Q3-2018 Operational Performance Demonstrates Some Progress
While Tesla Motors achieved its third-quarter production milestones, overall operational and delivery challenges remain for the electric auto maker. The Supply Chain Matters blog question is whether new management can once and for all overcome such challenges.
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Tesla’s Supply Chain Leadership Changes- A Positive Move
Concerning news regarding executive turnover at Tesla along with building concerns focused on CEO Elon Musk has led to yet another executive re-structuring. However, Supply Chain Matters has some optimism regarding production and supply chain leadership changes.
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Report That Tesla is Seeking Additional Cash from Certain Suppliers
The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Tesla has requested some of its suppliers to refund a portion of the cash payable sums concerning what the company had previously secured in product component supply. The development was characterized as a surprising move in an attempt to help the electric automaker meet its near-term profitability goals and to preserve its cash needs.
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Tesla Achieves Crucial Model 3 Production Milestone in Q2- But With Extraordinary Effort
Electric powered automaker Tesla completed Q2-2018 achieving its critical milestone of producing over 5000 Model 3 vehicles in one week. However, from our Supply Chain Matters lens, the achievement was hollow, and not reflective of a sustained production cadence under predictive cost controls.
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