"If you've been following Tesla as long as I have, you may feel a deep sense of deja vu right now. That's because Tesla appears to be gearing up for a fresh, exciting round of "production hell" with its new foray into robots and robotaxis. CEO Elon Musk warned that as Tesla nears the 100-day mark to the start of Cybercab production, it won't be all sunshine, rainbows and "sustainable abundance" right away."
"He explained that the enemies of speed are complexity and novelty. And given that both Cybercab (as long as it can still be called that) and Optimus are all-new machines with new parts, processes and assembly steps, a slow ramp is to be expected. The Cybercab, for example, is supposed to use Tesla's new "unboxed" manufacturing process. "The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportionate to how many new parts and steps there are," Musk said in the post."
Tesla is preparing for a difficult production ramp for two new products: the Cybercab robotaxi and the Optimus humanoid robot, with CEO Elon Musk warning early production will be "agonizingly slow." Complexity, novelty, and many new parts, processes and assembly steps will slow the ramp, including a new "unboxed" manufacturing process for the Cybercab. Musk described ramp speed as inversely proportionate to the number of new parts and steps. Both products are framed as essential to Tesla's success: Cybercab as a path to solving transportation pending autonomous driving, and Optimus as a potential major revenue source. The company is reminded of the Model 3 "production hell" era.
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