to answer that, we spoke with
bloomberg's businessweek max
chafkin, who has been covering
tesla on tuesday.
max: although elon musk appears
to be working 24/7 famously,
everyone,told
sleeping at the factory.
these 24/7 shifts are three
different crews of people.
it is not as if these tesla
employees are working around the
clock, although many executives
probably are.
the other thing that is
happening here is that musk is
saying in this memo, published
just a few minutes ago, that the
plan here is to have the
shutdown, and then to sort of
ramp up.
we saw a similar shutdown
followed by a ramp-up a few
weeks back, which allowed them
to hit this 2000 unit milestone
that we saw at the end of last
quarter.
the plan now, he is saying, is
that they want to be at 6000 by
the end of the second quarter.
and he says in this memo, which