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Recently, Tesla has once again become the focus of hot discussion among netizens, but this time it is not because the product price has been reduced, but because the media exposed that there are many "unknown" troughs in Tesla China.

The cause of the matter began a few days ago. On its official Weibo account, Pinplay released an article entitled "Tesla exposing the third season of chaos in China", with more than 9500 words, exposing Tesla's product quality control, senior management and other problems in China.

The article pointed out that "a number of Tesla Chinese insiders said that in order to complete the output, Tesla is doing whatever it takes to lower his quality standard."when the requirement for output reaches the critical point, the price will be the sacrifice of quality. The solution is very simple and rough, that is, to put the defective parts, that is, defective products, directly on the line," and "the engineers with Tesla sighed. Although they all look like Tesla in appearance, in terms of quality control, the process accuracy is not the slightest. The car in the Shanghai factory is completely another car. Basically, it is defective products. "Tesla Shanghai factory production line is also three shifts, 24-hour operation. A shift is 12 hours, which means standing up for a long time. "according to the workers, the leaders' favorite words are" you can do it, you can't leave "and so on.

The items listed in the product play naturally caused Tesla's dissatisfaction. "the article is not true and there are logic problems in many places," Tesla's Chinese public relations told Sina financial media on December 25. Tao Lin, vice president of foreign affairs of Tesla, wrote on Weibo on December 26: "this article has been woven so outrageously that it is beyond our imagination that we do not know where to start with so many slots." Our attorney is already preparing the indictment, and it is believed that he will be responsible for the impact of his words and deeds. "

In response to Tao Lin's response, Pindong officials also further said on Weibo: "Tesla's behavior in China is outrageous, beyond our imagination. With more than 200,000 words in the interview, I don't know where to start." The only thing we can do is to follow up and share more details and stories about the company's China division. " The implication is that product play officials will continue to expose more inside stories related to Tesla in China.

It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that product play has been exposed to Tesla. There are also two articles "season 1" and "season 2" at the beginning of the article, in which "season 1" is reported on April 22, 2014, while Tesla entered the Chinese market on April 21, 2012. in other words, the chaotic behavior was exposed the day before the second anniversary of Tesla's entry into the Chinese market. Season 2 was reported on February 12, 2015, the day Tesla released its 2014 results. "the third season" was revealed again five years later, and Tesla's market value and sales volume have continued to soar this year.

Interestingly, before the game responded to Tao Lin, its official WeChat also forwarded two pieces of old news. The first is the report on Luckin Coffee in July 2019, which has been reported in depth many times before financial fraud was exposed in April this year. The second is an article about the lawsuit between Pindong and Letv, which was sued because of an article that questioned Letv's company and Jia Yueting, its actual controller at that time, "selling dream money." the court rejected Letv's claim at first instance. Letv finally accepted the case in accordance with the withdrawal because he did not pay the case acceptance fee after the appeal. As for why play reposted these two articles, it is not difficult to understand.

On the morning of December 27th, Pinplay further responded on its website: "We admit that there is a flaw in the details of the article. Model S is not produced in a Shanghai factory. I apologize to those who saw the article for this flaw." netizens commented that the company playing with the last positive indictment was Letv, and now the grave is two feet high. We don't want to hard steel anyone. We also stumbled six months ago. So we are not sure whether we need to apologize to Tesla China, "there is not much information we can rely on, but based on the materials we have so far, we can write two similar articles." as for the indictment, we don't look forward to it. We can only wait "," Ms. Tao Lin said that we 'took black money,' which is legally responsible, and of course it is the same in court. "

According to official information, Playplay was founded in Silicon Valley in 2012 to position itself as a "technology innovation content organization" and a "technology innovation service provider".

The data show that Tesla's sales target is 500000 vehicles in 2020, and the cumulative delivery volume in the first three quarters of this year is 31.84 vehicles. Tesla needs to deliver more than 181700 vehicles in the fourth quarter to successfully achieve the sales target, but there is obviously still a lot of pressure to raise the level of 40, 000 vehicles in the fourth quarter.

"We will provide special help at the end of the production line to ensure that the cars currently produced can be delivered immediately without further improvements to PDI, as there is simply not enough time to do so," Tesla CEO said in an internal email on December 27. In other words, there are only a few days left in 2020, Tesla can not expect to improve the efficiency of product inspection, but hopes to use more manpower to increase production capacity.

For the game report of "Tesla's chaotic behavior in China", we maintain a relatively cautious attitude, as for the follow-up Tesla and product play official corresponding revelations and responses, we will continue to pay attention.

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