http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/23/te ... -i-wanted/Man förstår att det inte är helt lätt att starta ett nytt bilmärke. Fokus är i alla fall nu på kostnadsreduktion:
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December, at the height of its efforts to achieve a 20,000-vehicle annualized production rate, workers were averaging something like 68 hours a week, Musk said (and also participated in). Obviously, that's expensive in terms of paying additional overtime wages, and can lead to employee burn out if sustained.
"The amount of overtime required to achieve 400 cars per week was pretty extreme. That has improved pretty dramatically," Musk said. That number is now down to about 50 hours a week and should drop to the mid-40's sometime next month, Musk said. At the same time, the company is working to greatly reduce the number of temporary workers it employs and increasing, somewhat, the ranks of its full-time team.
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Another area where Tesla is achieving large cost savings is in its supply chain. As a startup, suppliers didn't offer Tesla the same sort of deals they might to an established OEM. They used industry estimates of 1,500 units per year – rather than Tesla's figure of 20,000 – to set pricing. That's now changing and, as the company meets certain volume targets, the prices (particularly for the all-important battery cells it's sourcing from Panasonic) are falling to more reasonable levels.
Model S i Norge:
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Average speed of approx 65 kph I guess. Climbed 1130 meters above sea level. Outside temp between 0 and -10c.
and managed to range 362 km on a single charge...not bad at all.
0 till -10C, genomsnittshastighet 65 km/h (bergsterräng), 36.2 mils räckvidd. Rätt ok.
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Totalt energiforbruk på 182 miles var 59.7kWh Tidvis meget aktiv kjørestil.
Ca 2kWh/mil alltså. Väldigt bra för en så pass stor och tung bil.