Tesla plans to halt production of its Model 3 compact car on Tuesday in a bid to work out kinks that have slowed assembly of the car, a critical vehicle in the company’s business plan.

It expects to idle its Model 3 assembly line for several days to clear impediments that have held production well below the electric-car company’s targets.

In the final week of March, Tesla made just over 2,000 Model 3s. It is hoping to lift that to 5,000 cars a week by the end of the second quarter. At one time, the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, thought Tesla would be able to make several hundred thousand Model 3s in 2018.

In a statement, Tesla said it had planned downtime into its production plans at its car plant in Fremont, Calif., “to improve automation and systematically address bottlenecks in order to increase production rates.”