Tesla CEO Elon Musk asked Tesla employees to help reduce expenses for the company.
"In effect, looked at over a six-month period, we won't have delivered any extra cars, but we will have spent a lot of money and burned ourselves out to accelerate deliveries in the last two weeks of each quarter," Musk said in an email sent to his employees, CarBuzz reported.
Because the company has been hit hard in the past year, he advised his employees to cut down on expenses, regardless of the means needed to do so, according to CarBuzz.
The company has been struggling to make delivery deadlines, particularly on the popular Model S and Model X.
Tesla has been increasing the cost of vehicles in the past months, but the increase is not enough to cover their own costs. Despite the roadblocks, the company has already delivered more than 627,000 units this year.
Tesla is not alone, however. Another American electric vehicle manufacturer, Rivian, has had supply issues as well, and the automotive industry as a whole is still trying to catch up to pre-pandemic levels of production.
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