How quickly will R2 be built

[Gen(R3)Xer]

Kyle should be getting his soon then....

Haha. Is he an unofficial employee now? I mean they should’ve hired him to test the R2. He would put it through its paces for sure, especially now that he’s in North Carolina with his own track!

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[tivoboy]

Agree, somewhat.. but we think/know they have already built >200 pre-production test units, for internal testing and industry/influencer/PR testing and shows.. they have probably actually already built another 2-3K at this point (I wonder if someone has a drone fly over of the factory in IN) and a large number of those will probably be going to employees.. with ~ 14K employees, I doubt more than 25% will take a car, that puts it at about 2500 TOPS.. it could be more if they are incented to.

From there, it should be 500/wk, ramping to 750/wk starting pretty soon I would guess. of COURSE they want to get quality high, but at this stage they aren't making design/parts/BOM/vendor changes unless absolutely necessary.. like a vendor can't supply or goes out of business.

I still think we're looking at 2K coming to customers by June, with 2.5-3K July, and maybe 3.5K by Sept onward.. that only puts us at ~ 22K for H2'26, but i could certainly be higher.

Looks like 2K wasn’t far off.. (1600 employee units to be delivered first - or already, somewhat unconfirmed).

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