The First Tesla Model 3 Deliveries Will Happen At The End Of The Month

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that initial Model 3 deliveries will happen at the end of July, with production hitting 20,000 cars per month from December 2017
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Tesla’s mid-2017 production kick-off target for the Model 3 has been treated with a hell of a lot of skepticism in the car industry. We get why: the Model S and X were both hit by delays at the beginning of their respective lives, after all.

However, it seems like the Model 3 will just about hit the target, with Elon Musk confirming on Twitter that the first cars will be in the hands of customers by the end of July. OK, so that is technically a tad past the halfway point of the year, but given that one industry analyst last year predicted the car wouldn’t arrive until the end of 2018, that seems close enough.

The first car (“SN1” or Serial Number 1) will be completed on Friday, and the first 30 Model 3 customers will receive their cars at a “handover party” on 28 July.

Production will grow “exponentially,” with 100 cars built in August and 1500 in September, with an output of 20,000 vehicles a month reached by December. Given that around 500,000 people have put down a deposit, it seems like it’ll take some time to clear the backlog.

As the car’s debut draws closer, we’re getting a much better idea of what it’ll be like. It’ll do 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds, have a single digital display (not placed in front of the driver, oddly), and have a range of 215 miles. Model 3 customers will have to pay for Supercharger access, and - in a bid to keep things simple for the sake of minimising delays - it won’t have anywhere near as many customisation options as the Model S.

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Comments

Tomislav Celić

It took Tesla 1 year to made it
Meanwhile Porsche has launched 47 versions of the 911

07/03/2017 - 12:13 |
84 | 3

Porsche engineer 1: opens parts bin

Porsche engineer 2: lets add add one of these at a time to a car and see if anyone notices

Porsche 911 gt2 3 rs targa spider s R turbo hybrid carbon long tail gt gt3 concept 1 release edition black

07/03/2017 - 14:11 |
57 | 2
Anonymous

My friend’s godfather bought one, actually it looks ok.

07/03/2017 - 12:21 |
2 | 1
Anonymous

I’m not buying one until Hammond crash tests it

07/03/2017 - 12:53 |
48 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Into a Volvo

07/03/2017 - 14:24 |
16 | 0
Anonymous
07/03/2017 - 13:10 |
8 | 2
Joseph Le Corre

Tesla: delivering disappointment since whenever Tesla started.

07/03/2017 - 13:51 |
6 | 5

u wot m8?

07/05/2017 - 05:21 |
0 | 0
Monty4248

Prepare to submit to your EV overlords!

07/03/2017 - 14:13 |
3 | 5

Why downvotes?

#EVFTW

07/03/2017 - 19:46 |
4 | 4
H5SKB4RU (Returned to CT)

And a few months later….

“Tesla recalls over 86.000 units of model 3 due to factory defects”

07/03/2017 - 17:21 |
24 | 1

Comma, not full stop.

07/04/2017 - 09:50 |
1 | 0

u wot m8? you just triggered a fanboy XD

07/05/2017 - 05:21 |
1 | 0
Advanced Handling Flags

I’ve already seen 4, no kidding. But I live about 45 min away from the evil factory

07/03/2017 - 22:56 |
5 | 0

Im going to cali and im staying with family who live rly close to the factory so i shud see some too

07/04/2017 - 15:22 |
0 | 0
Mark Mason

Tesla is Skynet.

07/04/2017 - 00:51 |
2 | 1
Fouck hahaha

…and then self-crashing recalls…

07/04/2017 - 04:08 |
1 | 0