Tesla hired Audi executives to hire mechanics to accelerate production of Model 3

On May 14, Tesla announced in an e-mail that the company has hired Audi executive Peter Hochholdinger as the company's new vice president of automotive production, and earlier this month, Sla had two senior production managers resigned.

In a new position at Tesla, Hodge Holdinger will be responsible for the company's current production of Model S and Model X, and will also strive to increase the production of Model 3, which has just announced its upcoming launch. At present, the number of orders for Model 3 has reached 400,000, and the number of reservations greatly exceeds the number of cars that Tesla has produced so far.

In addition, according to Auto News, Elon Musk sought new insights into manufacturing this week, calling on these mechanics to help Tesla to achieve an annual production of 1 million by 2020. The goal of an all-electric car.

Musk said that he is "doing his best" to make the Silicon Valley car new Tesla a manufacturing giant, but his desire depends on senior auto mechanics to increase electric vehicle production by 10 times in four years. This is a challenge for mature car manufacturers.

Tesla said on Wednesday that the company will produce 500,000 electric vehicles in 2018, a figure two years ahead of schedule, which means that Tesla will produce at least 1 million electrics by 2020. car. But on the same day, Tesla announced that the two vice presidents responsible for product and manufacturing left.

Shortage of mechanics

Regardless of the issue of capital demand, automotive experts also pointed out that there is a shortage of mechanics in Tesla, and the number of professionals has even declined since the 2008 US car crisis.

Garth Motschenbacher, director of employment relations at the Michigan State University School of Engineering, said: "For our country, this is a long-standing problem. Manufacturing has long been regarded as the most unpopular part of the engineering industry."

At the same time, Google and Apple are also working on automotive projects and are fighting for the same potential employees. Mature car manufacturers with the same plans include Ford, General Motors and Toyota.

A 2015 report by Deloitte shows that it takes three months to hire skilled mechanics, and the shortage of mechanics is having a negative impact on automakers.

Auto recruiter Stephen Parkford said that the strong planned number of Model 3 in the early stage guaranteed the market demand for the production model, but the problem now is the lack of capacity.

He said: "It's like an unopened restaurant that accepts a large number of reserved seats. You have a menu in your hand, but you don't have a chef!"

Parkford also said that by recruiting senior mechanics from traditional car manufacturers and including them throughout the team, this process can be accelerated.

Cuneyt Oge, president of the American Society of Automotive Mechanics, said that although young mechanics will desperately seize the opportunity to enter Tesla, "senior manufacturing people" with 15-20 years of work experience are even more difficult to change jobs. One of the key obstacles is the high cost of living in Silicon Valley.

Visionary senior industry insider

Oge said that Musk needs a senior industry insider with a vision in the automotive industry. "But anyone with this trait will not agree with Musk's goal of producing 500,000 electric cars in two years."

Tesla has always been known for challenging design and technical limits, but it is also awkward in manufacturing issues.

Compared with the burning of Tesla, traditional car manufacturers have more manpower and financial resources. Industry analyst Tracy pointed out that Nissan Motors had the ability to introduce 200 mechanics from Japan in 2004 to help solve the quality problems of the assembly plant in Guangzhou.

Need experience

Although Tesla's employees may draw on Musk's tireless work attitude and attention to detail, even sleeping in the factory, etc., this is a worrying sign for Tracy.

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