"We have redirected our best engineering talent to fine-tune the automated processes and related robotic programming, and we are confident that throughput will increase substantially in upcoming weeks and ultimately be capable of production rates significantly greater than the original specification." Panasonic confirmed earlier this week to Reuters that the cause of the bottlenecks had been found,addressed and should be resolved soon. "Panasonic Corp Chief Executive Kazuhiro Tsuga said on Tuesday that output could soon be increased at Tesla Inc's "gigafactory" battery plant as the causes of production bottlenecks for Tesla's Model 3 are now understood."