dspp wrote:But you know this.
Kindly stop telling me what I know, you aren't psychic and attributing thoughts and knowledge to other people is a poor form of debate.
It also isn't relevant to my point. You just made a claim that everything you were hearing indicated that Tesla weren't affected, cited a source which claimed Tesla were seeking to mitigate the effect it had on them, and then attributed the basis of that quote to a senior company officer talking during a company presentation. It doesn't matter how you interpret those words, or how they were reported the level of cognitive dissonance required to continue arguing that
Everything I am hearing is that those global chip issues do not affect Tesla.
is frankly astounding. Sadly I think it's entirely possible that you genuinely don't recognise that.
VW's chip supply is short, as they've predicted several times, but others seem to be fairing worse:
U.S. car giant General Motors announced last Wednesday that it is shutting three plants and slowing production at a fourth due to the semiconductor shortage. The Detroit car manufacturer said it could miss its 2021 targets as a result.
...Several other car manufacturers have also put production on hold in recent weeks. Honda U.K.’s main plant in Swindon was shut down for several days last month due to a chip shortage, for example. Elsewhere, Ford and Volkswagen have also shut plants or cut production while they wait for supplies to pick up.
Ford said in January that it was shutting a factory in Germany for a month, while Volkswagen said in December it will make 100,000 fewer cars this quarter as a result of the shortage.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/carmake ... -why-.htmlHoward wrote:By the way, I hope Tesla fans will treat VW forecasts the way they treat Tesla claims ie unquestioned belief.
Given its short-term predictions we'll soon see if this article is correct.
"Volkswagen plans to introduce a third shift at its MEB plant in Zwickau from mid-April. This will enable around 1,400 vehicles to be built per day from the summer onwards."
Come on Howard, you know the rules. For Tesla you count all the potential extrapolated capacity based on some random Teslarati on Twitter's wildest dreams, for VW you count 52% of units sold...