Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess stated in a new note to his management team that Volkswagen needs to be more like Tesla. Electrek got a speech delivered by Herbert Diess to the management, which described in detail the reasons why he regarded Tesla as the main competitor of Volkswagen.
Herbert Diess stated: For a long time, Tesla has been appreciated its car’s software, range, and acceleration, but there are problems with quality. But now, Tesla is learning fast, the quality is getting better and better, and the customer feedback is getting more and more positive.
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At Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory, Tesla hopes to produce 5 million cars with 7,000 people and has impressive productivity a production line is expected to produce 90 pieces per hour, and it only takes 10 hours to produce each car.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long stated that manufacturing will become the main advantage of automakers. Previously, its output was much lower than that of most other automakers, and its quality was not on par with other high-end automakers. However, the situation has improved in recent years, and Tesla can now produce electric cars at a rate of 1 million vehicles per year.
Herbert Diess seems to know the details of Tesla’s planned production at the Berlin Gigafactory. He was particularly impressed by the 10-hour production of a car. In contrast, Herbert Diess said that Volkswagen’s production time per vehicle at the Zwickau plant in Germany exceeded 30 hours. Its current goal is to reduce it to 20 hours, but this is still twice that of Tesla.
