Delivery Day Is Here for Tesla’s Model 3
Here Come the Tesla Model 3s
Sixteen months ago, Elon Musk shook the auto industry by unveiling the Tesla Model 3, a $35,000 electric sedan designed to take on the bestselling luxury cars. Customers stood in lines the world over to plunk down hundreds of thousands of $1,000 deposits—an unprecedented show of enthusiasm for a new vehicle from a relatively young automaker.
On Friday, Tesla will hand over keys to the first 30 customers and begin the ramp up to high-volume production that will determine whether Tesla is worth its $56 billion stock valuation—the biggest for a U.S. carmaker. The event will be livestreamed by Tesla at 9 p.m. on the West Coast. Here’s what we’ll be watching for at the launch party, including four potential wild-card surprises.