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Electric car maker Tesla has announced that it has managed to more than double its production capacity for vehicles year on year. With just 50,000 cars shipped in the entirety of 2015, Tesla has managed to deliver 24,500 in the past three months alone. That also represents a stark 70 percent increase in capacity over just the second quarter of 2016.
When Tesla announced that it had received several hundred thousand pre-orders for its Model 3 affordable electric car, set for release at the end of 2017, many wondered how it could hope to get even close to delivering on that pledge. Considering its highest production rate at that stage would mean a multi-year wait for anyone buying the car, clearly something needed to be done.
Tesla has since ramped up its production and is able to take advantage of the Gigafactory 1 coming online and beginning large scale battery development. At this stage Tesla has produced almost half of last year's total in just a matter of months, with plans to continue this escalation so that it delivers more than 50,000 vehicles in the second half of 2016.
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As more of the Gigafactory comes online, supplying higher and higher quantities of batteries to Tesla, it's likely that total vehicle production will increase along with it. With more than 370,000 Model 3 pre-orders and more orders of Model S and Model X vehicles still coming in, it has a long way to go to deliver sizeable quantities by the end of 2017.
Chances are there will be some wait for those who did pre-order Model 3s, but when they do start shipping it will be in far greater numbers than anyone would have expected a year or so ago.
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KitGuru Says: With all the development from other car makers with electric vehicles, it does seem that it, rather than hydrogen will be the go-to method of fuelling vehicles in the future. It didn't seem that way for a while.
i live in america, something like 80% of our electricity comes from fossil fuels (coal for me locally). to be honest an electric car has a larger carbon footprint then a gas driven one in this country, thats not going to change any time soon and i’m sure it holds true for many of the major countries in the world.
Centralized electricity production is far more efficient and green than millions of ice cars driving around. Its a no brainer
simple things like efficiency and controlability of scale are lost on you?
a central coal plant’s emissions can be monitored, scrubbed ect, avoiding the really nasty NO2, NO emissions, as well as sulfur emissions. The only thing a catalytic converter fixes is carbon monoxide. Even then, even coal heavy states like kentucky are switching to natural gas. (I’m from kentucky, our main export is coal or at least it was recently)
air scrubbers on power plants may be federally regulated, but the overhaul cost to fix them is prohibitively expensive so many power plants don’t even bother.
natural gas has its own problems (like the fact that acquiring it causes earthquakes and flaming tap water…), and isn’t much cleaner then other forms of fuel.
point i was trying to make is that tesla isn’t really fixing the problem, just shifting the problem to other infrastructure. until electricity production shifts to more green tech, solar/wind/hell even nuclear in the short term, electric cars won’t really make a difference.
Hi Alex, This issue has been studied extensively, and an electric car, charged on the grid, produces less CO2 than a gas car. You’re right that this isn’t a 100% fix, but that’s why Tesla bought Solar City so you can charge your car via solar panels. This will be another step in the right direction.
i’d point out that many of those studies contradict each other and/or don’t take into account every aspect in the lifespan of the electric car (production, battery disposal, etc). again, the point is that at this point electric cars aren’t making the big difference someone like musk would have you believe.
There is already better lithium reclamation techniques coming up- and the whole idea behind electric cars is to use a universal energy medium so we only have to change one power generation system at a time. Besides, as a conservative, the less foreign oil we need the better- I think america is tired of feeding war buy buying oil.
Electric cars will make more of a difference at scale for one, and for another, how much longer do you want to be buying foreign oil? Natural gas is abundant here at it just so happens to be perfect from many standpoints for electric generation. Also, full conclusions can be derived from results in different contexts, engineers do it all the time. Another thing, you’re not gonna see a complete study till there’s a unified life cycle and for this Tesla is the perfect test.