Elon Emails

'A shot at' first 100,000-delivery quarter

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
September 26, 2019 (Date of Electrek's report; sent that week)
To:
All Tesla employees

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

We have a shot at achieving our first 100,000 vehicle delivery quarter, which is an incredibly exciting milestone for our company! [...] The challenge is making sure that we have the right car variants in the right locations and rallying as much as our company resources as possible to help with the end of the quarter deliveries.

About this email

Musk tells employees Tesla could reach 100,000 deliveries in a quarter for the first time and asks them to rally resources for end-of-quarter deliveries.

Notes

Only these two passages were published. 'as much as our company resources' is as quoted.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

Tesla, company-wide memo. Tags: deliveries, end-of-quarter, q3-2019, milestone