It sounds like they are struggling. Hopefully they can pull it together and turn things around.
Don't listen to this fear mongering BS. Tesla is the only one in the electric car game. Who else has the charging network, the half-million pre-orders, the 3.5 billion in cash and easy ability to raise more, the Elon shine?
Can't stand these articles
... if accurate, if bug-free (for varying reasonable values of same). Otherwise the mythical man-month seems to creep in.
That's a project that's complicated enough to require 240 developers (12 months x 20 years, fitted into 1 month), yet somehow was reliably chunked up, retrofitted into their supplier screw up, tested and deployed in 4 weeks??
I'm considering myself skeptical.
Seriously though, you can probably redo a typical 20 Man Year project in 2, given how much of the development process is usually taken up by missed requirements and re-work, IF you have a bombproof specification and a well-drilled team of stars.
The part I’m not quite getting though is how a battery software issue impacted on wider productivity? Couldn’t they get them in-place and then patch the software after the fact?