Early this month, Elon Musk sent out an email saying that Tesla was producing 2,000 Model 3's a week, an improvement over previous rates but still short of the ambitious goal of 2,500 per week by the end of the first quarter of 2018. Right now, its producing no Model 3's due to a production halt at its Fremont, California factory first reported by Buzzfeed.

The halt is expected to last four or five days and workers, who have reported poor working conditions during the production ramp up, are reportedly expected to take vacation time or forgo pay during the stall if Tesla cannot reassign them in the interim. A spokesperson told The New York Times that the cause of the stoppage is to "improve automation and systemically address bottlenecks in order to increase production rates."

This is not the first time Tesla has halted production in order to address production bottlenecks, with a similar incident happening in March. Hanging over the stoppage is Tesla's tangles with the NTSB in the wake of a fatal crash of its Model X.

Suffice it to say it might be a minute until your Model 3 is ready.

Source: Buzzfeed, New York Times