Auto company Tesla cut its German plant’s production target to 4,350 per week in July and August, after hitting 5,000 per week in March, and plans to cut it further, according to a Business Insider article that cites internal documents and anonymous sources, writes Reuters.
The US carmaker posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in late March that it had reached 5,000 cars a week at the Gruenheide plant near Berlin, but workers who declined to be named told Business Insider that this was a one-off situation and that the average production since then has been much lower, the article said.
Tesla said in June that it was hiring fewer temporary workers than at first because they were no longer needed, but that its production goals were on schedule.
Business Insider said that images showing Tesla’s internal workflow software indicate that the US electric vehicle maker has lowered its target for July and August to 870 cars per day.
Even that goal wasn’t always met, with just 692 cars produced on July 25 and 806 on July 28, according to software images released in the report.
Since then, the internal target has been adjusted further down to 750 cars a day, which is less than 4,000 a week, the article said, citing unnamed workers at the plant.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Business Insider said the company did not comment on a series of questions about the plant’s production.
Tesla announced in July that it planned to expand capacity at the Gruenheide plant to 1 million cars a year, but did not provide a timetable and previously declined to comment on when it would reach 6,000 cars a week at the plant.
Production reached 4,000 cars a week in late February, ahead of a production schedule seen by Reuters, but appears to have slowed since then, according to Business Insider.
2023-08-23 10:36:27
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