What Elon said made perfect sense to me. They have an internal date of July 1 for both external and internal suppliers to meet. But statistically, given there are thousands of parts, they know it&#x27;s very unlikely that even with the highest committment, everyone will be ready on time. That&#x27;s all factored in. So as he said, it will then take some number of months to get those last stragglers sorted out before production can actually start. What would you suggest? Maybe he should just not have mentioned the earlier internal target date, if people are going to be that confused by it.<p>EDIT: as for other manufacturers, I have no idea, but the question is more whether they talk about their <i>internal</i> target dates at all. Elon never said that production actually would start on July 1 (but more like &quot;before end of 2017&quot;), so calling this a &quot;delay&quot; is just wrong.