Yes exactly. Another recent example here: How long will shipping take? - #3 by dan. They haven’t negotiated with shipping companies yet, another indication that we are not close to volume shipping.
The announcement in December that shipping was delayed because there were reliability problems was just a smokescreen. Yes there may well have been reliability problems but they also could not ship in December because:
- Didn’t have the final production hardware with shielded plastic.
- Software for even the basic model nowhere near finished.
- Didn’t have regulatory approvals (would need the final production hardware).
- Hadn’t finalised the manual (I think the safety part would need to be done to get approvals).
- Hadn’t sorted out shipping.
And three months later I can’t see any of these are done yet. Who thinks that in two months all these things will suddenly be done? That fact that nothing is finalised ahead of time means everything is on the critical path.
And how credible were any of the previous proposed shipping dates?