Tesla Continues To Streamline Production, Now Bundling Model X Interior Options
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In keeping with its apparent push to streamline production processes, in anticipation of the beginning of Model 3 production in mid-2017, Tesla has gone ahead and bundled the interior options for the Model X.
This is a very large simplification of what was on offer before — where there were over 50 unique combination of interior options possible through the firm’s online Design Studio for the Model X. Notably, all 5 of the new interior bundles feature the option to upgrade to carbon fiber. I guess that the company figures that that option is still somewhat polarizing, or maybe it just isn’t too much trouble to substitute carbon fiber. Who knows?
Previous to this bundling, those using the online Model X Design Studio were able to choose the individual colors for the seats, interior trim, headliner color, etc.
Teslarati provides more: “The new change follows a series of recent updates made to the Model S and Model X Design Studio, all seemingly geared towards maximizing production line efficiency. Just last week, Tesla discontinued its 90 kWh performance variant of the Model S and Model X — the P90D — leaving the company’s P100D as the new king of the hill. The Palo Alto-based automaker has also reduced the number of paint colors made available on its fleet of vehicles and eliminated the coil spring suspension, factory tow hitch, and 60 kWh battery on the Model X.”
Presumably the company will be moving to simplify Model S production as well, through a similar bundling of options. And the Model 3 is itself unlikely to feature too many individual options that don’t relate directly to performance — bundling seems very likely there as well.
Photos of Teslarati’s/Gene’s Model X by Kyle Field for CleanTechnica
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