Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week
&gt; with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk<p>No, they missed the deadline, twice now. Lot of Muskites in these comments, remember, Tesla failed to meet the same deadline in January and pushed it to June. (EDIT: I&#x27;ve been told they missed this 3 times now, the 5K&#x2F;wk figure was originally Dec &#x27;17, then Jan &#x27;18 then Jun &#x27;18).<p>When it was clear they would miss again, they put up a third production line in a canvas tent, which the NYT quoted as &quot;never heard anything like this ever&quot; using what Musk tweeted as &quot;scrap we had in warehouses&quot; to build the cars. And even then, and running all three lines 24&#x2F;7 striving to hit that goal for just 7 consecutive days with the whole world watching... they still came up 150 cars short.<p>(5k&#x2F;wk &#x2F; 168 hrs&#x2F;week = 30&#x2F;hr * missing the deadline by 5 hours = 150 cars short)