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Seen on Electrek this morning:

https://electrek.co/2023/09/16/tesla-offers-factory-tours-as-new-referral-award/

I would like to think that buying a Cybertruck and picking it up at the factory would entitle us to a tour without jumping through extra hoops - especially after going through this agonizing wait for so many years. What do you all think?
Unfortunately, it's gonna be very difficult to accommodate the millions of buyers that may want a tour. Factories are generally set up for work (sometimes dangereux work), plus they're trying to ramp up towards a crazy fast production. No one in the world has ever produced so many BEV cars so fast. They are true pioneers in this area. I'm no Elon (probably) nor do I work for him. I'd like a tour just as much as the next guy, but it probably isn't gonna happen. Try the next best thing if you're down, apply for a job. You'll get a tour for sure! :D
 

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Unfortunately, it's gonna be very difficult to accommodate the millions of buyers that may want a tour. Factories are generally set up for work (sometimes dangereux work), plus they're trying to ramp up towards a crazy fast production. No one in the world has ever produced so many BEV cars so fast. They are true pioneers in this area. I'm no Elon (probably) nor do I work for him. I'd like a tour just as much as the next guy, but it probably isn't gonna happen. Try the next best thing if you're down, apply for a job. You'll get a tour for sure! :D
They have tours at the White House, the Pentagon, and NORAD (if War Games is to be believed).

I think Tesla can a manage.
 

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Unfortunately, it's gonna be very difficult to accommodate the millions of buyers that may want a tour. Factories are generally set up for work (sometimes dangereux work), plus they're trying to ramp up towards a crazy fast production. No one in the world has ever produced so many BEV cars so fast. They are true pioneers in this area. I'm no Elon (probably) nor do I work for him. I'd like a tour just as much as the next guy, but it probably isn't gonna happen. Try the next best thing if you're down, apply for a job. You'll get a tour for sure! :D
The Corvette assembly plant tour - part of the National Corvette Museum Delivery option - is set up with fenced off paths and walk ways to keep the people touring well separated from all the plant action, but close enough to see it. The tour guide has no more than 4 people; all either family or friends of the buyer and usually just two. The dangerous places - the painting section and the frame hydro forming section - weren’t included but were seen in a history/safety video at the beginning of the tour. The workers at the plant all seemed either pleased by the tourists’ presence or unfazed by it. The only time I got to interact directly with a plant worker was when I was allowed to start a car for the first time as part of its dyno test as part of the final checkout.

There is no reason that tours with similar precautions couldn’t be set up in Austin. The cost of setting it up and running the tours could be totally covered and even be a profit center by treating it as a purchase option. It would be a cool gesture to the plant workers to give them the profit.

I believe it could eventually happen, but not soon.
 
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Unfortunately, it's gonna be very difficult to accommodate the millions of buyers that may want a tour. Factories are generally set up for work (sometimes dangereux work), plus they're trying to ramp up towards a crazy fast production. No one in the world has ever produced so many BEV cars so fast. They are true pioneers in this area. I'm no Elon (probably) nor do I work for him. I'd like a tour just as much as the next guy, but it probably isn't gonna happen. Try the next best thing if you're down, apply for a job. You'll get a tour for sure! :D
I doubt that millions want a tour. I also doubt that millions will go to Austin to pick up their Cybertrucks. Finally, I do not think there will be a large number of trucks being delivered on a daily basis even at full ramp, and those would not all come at once. When we went to Fremont to pick up our Model Y in 2019 the Model 3s were at full ramp but we were the only ones picking up a car in that 15-minute window. They could say “we will run a single tour every day at N o’clock for anyone picking up a Cybertruck” and I bet there would never be 100 takers.
 

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Definitely agree with you.

My perfect scenario is: Take a one-way flight to Austin, get a tour of the Gigafactory, take delivery of my Cybertruck, and then drive back home to SC hitting up cool points of interests on the way home.

I really hope we don't have to pay or use referral credits at that time to get a factory tour.
Germans have done this for years mainly to save the shipping cost. i wouldn't be surprised to see Tesla do this some day, but right now they have their hands full.
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