New York – The bumpy production start of the hopeful model 3 almost collapsed the e-car pioneer Tesla, according to the head of the company Elon Musk. “Tesla really faced a serious risk of death during the start of the Model 3 production,” said Musk in an interview with the news portal “Axios” on Sunday (local time) on the US payer HBO. The company had lost “how crazy” money – if the manufacturing problems had not been solved in a very short time, so The model 3 is the first cheaper e-car from Tesla, with which the company of tech billionaire Musk wants to penetrate from the luxury niche into the mass market. However, Tesla struggled for months with massive start-up problems in the production of the car. Musk’s ambitious production targets have been shifted several times and ultimately only with enormous costs. d. In the meantime, however, it seems that the risky bet is going on: after the months of the Model 3 strains described by Musk as “production hell”, Tesla finally managed the first quarter profit in two years. “You should never become complacent, so we have to continue working hard – but I think we’re over the mountain,” Musk said in a podcast of the tech blog “Recode” at the beginning of November.Source: dpa