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The first-ever mass-market Tesla should roll out of the factory this week.
CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Sunday that the company's Model 3 car "passed all
regulatory requirements for production two weeks ahead of schedule.
Expecting to complete SN1 on Friday," using an abbreviation for serial
number one.
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Model 3 passed all regulatory requirements for production two weeks ahead of
schedule. Expecting to complete SN1 on Friday
10:48 PM - 2 Jul 2017
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Musk also tweeted that production would increase "exponentially," with 100
cars in August, more than 1,500 in September and 20,000 per month in
December. Musk also announced a July 28 "handover party" for the first 30
buyers of the Model 3.
As NPR has reported, the fully electric Model 3 is expected to cover a range
of 215 miles on one charge and, most notably, sell at a sticker price of $
35,000 (or $27,500 after federal electric car tax credits). Until now, Tesla
has sold only luxury cars at luxury prices, beginning — on the low end —
at roughly double the Model 3's price.
A successful rollout of the Model 3 is crucial for Tesla, not only for Musk'
s so-called "master plan" of moving consumers to sustainable energy sources,
but also for the company's financial future.
Excitement about the Model 3 has driven Tesla's stock price up 67 percent
during 2017, and as we've reported, Tesla recently surpassed Ford in market
value. But Tesla has also lost $2.3 billion in the past five years. In fact,
the company made news last October, as NPR's Sonari Glinton reported, for
posting only the second ever profitable quarter in its 14-year history. (The
company continued to post losses in the fourth quarter of 2016 and the
first quarter of 2017.)
One of the more formidable challenges Tesla faces will be scaling up
production. Musk set a goal of producing 500,000 vehicles a year in 2018, or
more than 40,000 per month. For scale, that is about 15,000 more than it
produced in the entire first quarter of this year. |
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