The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights reports that two cities are likely on the short list for siting this new facility, one being Austin Texas and the other, Tulsa Oklahoma, and each seems to be in a bidding contest to be selected.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog reflects on Tesla Motors recently quarterly operations performance and the potential conflict relative to meeting shareholder expectations and social responsibility practices.
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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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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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Tesla has issued its Q1-2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries report which contains some good news as well as tempered news for Model 3 sedan.
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As readers approach the celebration of 2018 as a new year, Supply Chain Matters shares thoughts related new thinking and concepts related to Digitally-Enabled Customer Response Networks.
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The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar to discussions, is today reporting that electric car manufacturer Tesla has reached an agreement to set up an owned manufacturing facility within China.
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Tesla conducted its long-awaited Model 3 customer handover event. We now know a lot more about this new vehicle, but at the same time, less about how Tesla will manage the huge production ramp-up.
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Tesla announced vehicle production and delivery performance numbers for Q2-2017 while CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to announce the start of ramp-up production for the new Model 3 vehicle. While Tesla emphasized a positive spin on recent quarter operational performance, there continues to be weak link challenges that need to be tackled on many fronts, the most obvious being overall battery supply and Model 3 production ramp-up.
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The visibility on Tesla’s Model 3 production ramp-up took on some new dimensions this week, as U.S. national morning news program CBS This Morning aired a segment featuring Tesla auto workers expressing concerns about on the job safety.
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As Tesla ramps-up supply chain and production of the new Model 3, financial, operational and supply chain growing pains are evident.
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Electric-automobile and solar power producer Tesla reported fourth quarter and full year 2016...
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