I guess you also missed the new seats also in the D. How many firms have a four door performance sedan that does a 0-60 in 3.2 seconds? How many car manufacturers do over the air updates to their cars? How many manufacturers have a super-charging network like Tesla Motors?
They are increasing production. There is only so much they can ramp up production considering where they came from and the limitations of Capital on hand. It isn't like they can flick a switch and go from 25,000 cars in a year to 250,000 cars in a year. A increase in production of 40-50% each year is perfectly healthy for them, I would be concerned that scaling production increases beyond this would create quality issues. They are also learning as they go along how to produce quality cars, as evidenced by the quality issues in earlier production cars. Also battery production, Panasonic could also only produce so many batteries. It doesn't matter if you can produce 250,000 cars a year if you can only get batteries for 100,000 cars a year, does it? Tesla is building the battery production and factory capability to hit 1/2 Million cars by the end of the decade. I have no idea if it will be enough but not buying into the traditional dealer network setup will not be the difference between success and failure for them.
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