Tesla will start delivering its much-anticipated Model 3 EV this month, as promised. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company will have a “handover party for [the] first 30 customer Model 3s on the 28th.” He added that production will grow exponentially, “so August should be 100 cars and September above 1,500.” By December, the company will be building 20,000 cars per month, he said in a subsequent tweet. The goal is to produce up to 10,000 cars per week by 2018.
Handover party for first 30 customer Model 3’s on the 28th! Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1500.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2017
Tesla has developed a bit of a reputation for being late on deliveries and having glitchy production issues, particularly with the Model X crossover. However, Musk tweeted that the “Model 3 passed all regulatory requirements for production two weeks ahead of schedule.”
Tesla reportedly has a backorder of nearly 400,000 of the Model 3s, which start at $ 35,000 and have an average order price of around $ 42,000. The first customers to get access to the EV will be owners of current Model S and Model X vehicles, and after that, buyers who placed their pre-orders the earliest. Elon Musk said in May that Tesla will open 100 new “retail, delivery and service locations” to keep up with repairs and service for all those new EVs.
Source: Elon Musk (Twitter)
