>People love to call out the Model 3, but Tesla makes almost 2,000 cars a week. They obviously are having a problem with the battery for it. As a general problem, they are past making a few hundred cars a quarter.

They always overpromised by a few months. It's been a pattern since the start. Apart from the delay they have delivered on their promises after a while.

I mean you can think of their estimations what you want. It could be a bit too much optimism (although can there be too much optimism for a startup?), it could be a marketing tactic. But they've consistently beaten the skeptics until now.

> They always overpromised by a few months. It's been a pattern since the start.

I think this is an endemic problem with Elon Musk himself. He's always very optimistic about all his ventures (Tesla, SpaceX, SpaceX's Texas launch facility, Hyperloop...). He seems to have issues with estimating real-world issues that creep into every project.

However, like you said, he does always seem to get there in the end, one way or another.

I like to say Elon over promises and eventually delivers.

It's kind of fun: Tesla pulled in the mass manufacturing date of Model 3 to 6 months earlier, is late, and is ahead of the original schedule. Everyone complains.

I think the statement as quoted still works, right? 2,000 cars a week is not approaching the scale of the incumbent car industry. It's too early to tell how the Model 3's reliability stacks up.