Model 3 passes 2,000 cars per week

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: April 2, 2018 (Sent about 3:01 a.m. PDT on Monday April 2, 2018)
To:: All Tesla employees

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

It has been extremely difficult to pass the 2000 cars per week rate for Model 3, but we are finally there. If things go as planned today, we will comfortably exceed that number over a seven-day period! [...] This is already double the pace of 2017! [...] By the end of the year, I believe we will be producing vehicle sat least four times faster than last year. [...] It took five years to reach the 2000/week production rate for S and X combined, but only nine months to achieve that output with Model 3. Mind-blowing progress!

About this email

Musk tells staff that Model 3 production has finally passed 2,000 cars a week, double the 2017 pace, and predicts output four times faster by year-end.

Notes

Only excerpts were published. Passages combined from Electrek (first and last) and Jalopnik (middle two); order within the email is not certain. 'vehicle sat least' typo is as quoted by Jalopnik.

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Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

Tesla, company-wide memo. Tags: model-3, production, milestone

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