Tesla looks to its partners to help them in the development of a car company from time to time

• Tesla is working with Adesa, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, and Kar Auction's Kar Auction Services division, to manage and sell a larger volume of used vehicles than ever before.
• The boom in Tesla's used car business represents a new operational challenge and a new cost center for the company, but can also help it generate long-term revenue through sales, billing and other services.

Tesla relies on outside companies, including Manheim and Adesa KAR, to run a growing used-car business, according to two people close to the situation. These companies help move and manage cars from time to time by subjecting them to inspections, refurbishment and sales to wholesale customers.

As it increased production and sales of vehicles, Tesla was attacking what CEO Elon Musk called "the hell of delivery logistics". An increasing volume of used cars poses another operational challenge to Tesla, while providing the company with new sources of revenue and ways to bring electric vehicles to the masses.

The move is a departure for Tesla, which operates as a "vertically integrated" company, which sells its new cars directly to consumers, repairs through its own service centers and manufactures parts of its cars that most automakers Do not try, including its own batteries, car seats and chips that power the features of the Tesla autopilot.

Tesla is managing a larger volume of used cars than ever before, in part because it offered a 2-year lease option for its S and X model electric vehicles in the third quarter of 2016, and 3-year rentals .

A Tesla employee involved in the growing operation of used cars said that about half of the Tesla vehicles destined for his partners were coming back ready to be retailed, which allowed Tesla to get them off the road. sell as certified used vehicles, or use them as lenders or as employees. a way. Its partners sell some of the other Tesla vehicles through physical and online auctions.

Most of the products sent by Tesla to its partners are models S and X that come out of the lease, but others are parts of recovery (some are manufactured by other manufacturers), lemons or vehicles taken after a non-payment, said people familiar. The inventory of Tesla used cars has barely begun to include models 3.

Recent job offers posted online by Tesla on his Careers and Glassdoor.com pages, including offers from a Quality Vehicle Specialist, Remarketing Manager, Sales Advisor of used and other vehicles, reveal that the company is aiming for a rotation of "30 days or less rates in the sale of stock opportunities." Jobs also recognize that Tesla works with third party suppliers on "fast and high quality repairs".

Manheim, which is a division of Cox Enterprises, and Adesa, which is part of Kar Auction Services KAR, both declined to comment, citing the secret of their customers. Tesla also declined to comment.

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