Tesla has posted quite a remarkable yet, especially when compared to the company's sales output in previous years. The company has seen some meteoric rise in demand. In order to cope up with this, the company has also upped its production goals.
In a recent shocking reveal, some Tesla employees confirmed that they were forced to work on harsh conditions in order to meet the Model 3's huge production output. Not only that, the employees added that they were forced to take shortcuts in some aspects of car building in order to speed up the production.
The reveal made some headlines and put Tesla, once again, into the ire of both the public and some government regulators. The employees claim that they worked in Tesla's open-air tent factory. Due to Tesla's high production quota, the employees were forced to take shortcuts in the production line. Among the shortcuts, they were encouraged to take was to make fast fixes into the Model 3's plastic housing by using electrical tapes. The employees, who were also pressured to work in hard conditions, claim that tesla skipped some required car tests just to hit the production goals.
The employees provided photographs showing them applying electrical tapes in order to fix cracks on the Model 3's housings and plastic brackets. As for the working conditions, the employees claim that they were pressured to work through extremely cold temperatures at night and equally extreme heat throughout the day. They also claim that they worked through smoky air during the time when a portion of Northern California was caught in a wildfire.
Regarding this harsh working condition, Tesla said in a statement, "We work hard to create a work environment that is safe, fair and fun as possible, and it is incredibly important to us that employees look forward to coming to work every day."
In a recent report to its shareholders, Tesla revealed that the company was able to build 87,048 cars in a three month period ending on June 30. Of this huge output, 72,531 were Model 3s. These two figures were quarterly company records, and it is quite disheartening to know how Tesla reached them. By the end of the year, Tesla told its shareholders, the company expects to reach 360,000 cars in production. More than 250,000 of this are expected to be Model 3 cars.
The Tesla Model 3 is the most affordable car in the company's lineup. With the car industry slowly shifting into electric and environment-friendly car models, the Model 3 is in the frontlines headlining this growing market.
