Close ad

Tesla is currently in a big mess, which is due to nothing other than the coronavirus. The coronavirus has had a significant impact on the technology industry, as it has halted a significant portion of the production of technology products in China, which is reportedly also affecting Appyou. ProEven Tesla did not escape problems in this area.

The third Gigafactory in China was put into operation a few months ago, but production was suspended relatively early on because the country was celebrating the Chinese New Year. However, production did not resume after the celebrations ended because the coronavirus outbreak began. Elon Musk's company resumed operations in China on February 10th to ensure proper implementation of the plan, but even that did not nestTesla's subcontractors not only did not start their factories as soon as possible, but in many cases they kept them closed for a long time precisely because of the coronavirus epidemic. Tesla was therefore hit by a problem that it had been afraid of for weeks - it ran out of new componenty for car production.

Specifically, it was the chips that are responsible for the Autopilot system. It was at this moment that Tesla engineers apparently had a seemingly brilliant idea in their heads, which soon turned out to be very unfortunate. They decided to implement chips that were used before April 2019 into the cars, which, according to Tesla, are twenty-one times slower than the generation it relies on now. So the cars were put into old parts with worse characteristics. There would be nothing wrong with that in a way, if Tesla had not claimed in the car manual that it was the latest series with the latest componeYou are aware of this fact.onec was noticed by customers themselves, who found out from the code on the chip that it was an old series. After they started complaining, they were told that the chips would eventually be replaced with the latest ones. But it wouldn't be Elon Musk, if there wasn't some controversy surrounding the issue. He said on Twitter that the biggest complainers about the old chips are those who didn't order a Tesla with full autonomous driving.

Today's most read

.