“The fundamental focus of Tesla this year is scaling output. So, both last year and this year, if we were to introduce new vehicles, our total vehicle output would decrease. This is a very important point that I think people do not — a lot of people do not understand.”
“So last year, we spent a lot of engineering and management resources solving supply chain issues, rewriting code, changing our chips, reducing the number of chips we need, with chip drama central,” Musk emphasized.
“And there were not — that was not the only supply chain issue, so — just hundreds of things. And as a result, we were able to grow almost 90% while at least almost every other manufacturer contracted last year. So that’s a good result. But if we had introduced, say, a new car last year, we would — our total vehicle output would have been the same because of the constraints — the chip constraints, particularly,” the Tesla CEO added.
Elon Musk may often make trolling comments and brag about his businesses. But he also fully understands all the issues at Tesla. And he wants to dominate the field.
