Sentences with phrase «car production problems»

However, current and former employees say that Tesla leverages its remanufacturing group to deal with new car production problems, which is unusual.

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Tesla's Model 3 production problems were first revealed in early October when the automaker reported it had produced just 260 of its new Model 3 electric cars in the third quarter and delivered only 220.

Tesla's production problems were revealed in early October when the automaker reported it had produced just 260 of its new Model 3 electric cars in the third quarter, of which it delivered 220.

And with traditional automakers slow to cannibalize their combustion engine vehicles, he thinks it's going to be hard for them catch up to on electric, despite the production problems plaguing Tesla's new Model 3 sedan, its first vehicle aimed at the mass car - buying market.

But problems with the Model 3 production is arguably a bigger issue due to the scale and ambitions of this particular car.

Production delays, a recall and other problems have presented the electric - car maker and its founder, Elon Musk, with a crisis of confidence among investors.

Unexpected maintenance reliability problems with BHP's car dumpers — the giant machines that can pick up and empty a fully loaded rail car of ore — forced the resources giant to reduce iron ore production guidance for 2017 - 18 to between 272 million tonnes and 274 million tonnes, just down from its previous guidance of 275 million tonnes and 280 million tonnes.

Yep, there was definitely a syncro problem in our test car's five - speed manual transmission; let's hope similar issues don't rear their heads in production cars.

Although these glitches were in all likelihood related to the cars» early production status and to the extremely hard use, it deserves a quick fix — after all, just about the last thing Lexus can afford is a quality problem associated with its halo model.

Citroen - based CDW Special that nearly made it into production / Sunbeam three - litre — the car that STD built / Spirit of a Silver Ghost — article on daughter of the chauffeurs who drove AX 201 during its years of private ownership / Bentley's first Lagonda was built to challenge Rolls - Royce — Michael Bowler tries a 1938 V12 / Australian government bought a fleet of 1942 Chryslers in 1944 — one left assigned to the Prime Minister the next year / Automobile Summer Challenge / Austin Ulster and three - litre Bentley get a few problems sorted — Motorhouse

The automatic transmission remains an image problem, but it can be a mechanical issue as well, especially on early production cars.

Nissan admits to the problem of selling Japanese - built cars outside its homeland, but struggles with an official goal of maintaining domestic production of at one million units annually.

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Buick's General Manager Ed Mertz has kept a very close watch on the production line this summer to ensure that the cars are being built properly and delivered to customers with no problems.

With the well - known problems of its predecessor, the Vega, which included production issues, reliability problems, and a serious propensity for corrosion, the team reworked the international platform such that the Chevette shared not a single body panel with another T - car and reworked the underbody extensively to enhance corrosion protection.

One problem with the test car, built before full production began, were reflections of the dashboard on the windshield, lending an exciting hint of mystery to forward visibility.

Manufacturing Validation Build (MVB) Corvettes are built prior to full public production and subjected to rigorous tests to fix problems that may occur once the car gets some miles on the drivetrain.

A few little bugs have been spotted in preview builds (such as bizarre tornadoes or melting cars), but it's more likely that a delay of this magnitude is down to production problems.

AltaRock Energy, a geothermal energy startup, was forced to abandon its first project in 2009 due to drilling problems... Fisker Automotive, an electric car maker, has been plagued by production delays and hasn't built a car in more than six months.

Fisker Automotive has raised around a billion dollars in private funding, and has been struggling with production problems with its first electric car the Karma.

At first, the problem was that it claimed it would show a production version of its all - electric, fully - autonomous car in development, but it only debuted a nonfuctional concept vehicle instead.

Krause joins a clown car's worth of top executives who have either fled or been fired from the company, which has very publicly struggled with funding challenges and production problems this year.

Production problems are really a non-issue - Produce cars at industry average speed isn't some unachievable goal, everyone can do it and they will eventually - The auto industry said was it's impossible to ramp up as fast as claimed, and they were right, but that doesn't matter now because fans now think it's impossible to ramp up ever - This means when they do inevitably ramp up, whenever that happens, fans will claim Elon achieved the impossible and proved the auto industry wrong, never - mind what the industry actually said.