![]() This way, the devices in this batch will arrive to you around the beginning of May.Īs usual, this last mile delivery time will largely depend on where you live. We’d add around 2 more weeks for the batches to be shipped, pass the customs, get processed by the warehouses and dispatched. Then, the batch of devices will be assembled, pass the QA, get packed and shipped to the EU and US warehouses - roughly, this will happen in mid-April. Within March, we’re finishing the production of the displays and the device bodies - in the recent months, we got all the final samples, tested them, confirmed, and the manufacturers went on to the mass production. Thank you for staying with us and helping us continue what we love to do.īottomline first: We plan to resume the shipping of the Drives in the middle of April. Sounds modest, but it’s so much bigger inside! Nothing really big here: we’re now mostly focusing on how well it performs, and are doing lots of things under the hood to bring in the things we’ve done in our other apps (more widgets, driving score, etc.) to the Drive. That’s why, we believe that the next batch will be shipped no later than in December. In the meantime, all other components will be completed. The longest Drive component (the main PCB) will take around 2.5 months to be produced, tested, flashed and tested all over again. We’ve already placed the orders for the components for the next batch. Orders to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand are shipped from Hong Kong.Īll in all, within the next two weeks all orders belonging to batch #5 will be shipped out. ![]() ![]() Orders to the UK, EU countries, Mexico, Israel, and Brazil are shipped from Riga, Latvia. Orders to the US are shipped from a warehouse in Madison, AL. This time, we are working with three warehouses to ship out all the orders: This is still work in progress - and upon our most recent discussions with all the component suppliers involved in making the Drive for Tesla, we expect to ship out the Drive for Tesla orders within Q1 2024. The nuance is that its parameters are different from those in regular Drive lens, and there’s been quite a few prototypes we had to make with the new manufacturer to achieve the required projection focus and get rid of distortions. Last year, we had to switch the manufacturing partner producing the lenses for us, and started working with a new one to produce the lens for the Drive Tesla version. Given the toughened QC regulations, crazy logistics, freight agents and warehouse service cut-offs, and the overall hectic intensity of December - we’re forecasting that the batch 6 will ship right after winter holidays and that the orders belonging to it will arrive within January 2024. The PCBs are the longest - 2.5 months on average, which suggests that they’ll be ready around mid-December (and then the Drive assembly and final QC will follow), though the manufacturers are unexpectedly optimistic confirming that the batch will be ready for shipping within December. We’ve launched the production of the components with the longest lead time - PCBs, the displays, and the Drive bodies. To prevent this happening in future, we’ve worked with the PCB manufacturer to tighten the QC regulations - namely those dealing with checking the ribbon cable connectors and the testing of the PCBs after they’re flashed with the firmware.Īt the same time, we were glad to confirm that no power supply issues that would rather often (in about 8% of the Drives shipped) occur in previous batches have been reported so far. We’ve detected several (around 0.7% of the Drives shipped) cases where there would be issues with the display imagery, most of which would get fixed after updating the firmware to the most recent version, while the remaining few others got fixed in our Riga lab and shipped back to their owners. ![]() The previous HUDWAY Drive batch saw two new components we had to re-create from scratch after the infamous story with one of our major component suppliers: these are the main PCB (the piece of electronics that controls everything in the Drive, from wireless connections with your phone or the OBD-II scanner to producing all those visuals you see on the display) and the display.Īs you may remember, we’d do multiple tests at all development stages until we confirmed that both components perform as needed in the designed environment - and we did more when we got the mass-produced samples.Īnd we also asked for the feedback from those who had just received the new Drives. But first, a short recap on the insights brought by the recent batch produced.
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