July 28,2017,Tesla Electric Car Maker company handed over
its new Model 3 electric car to its employee buyers by the Chief Executive Elon
Musk during an event at the company’s facilities in Fremont, California, U.S.
Tesla Model 3 electric car had more than half a million
advance reservations. Musk took to the stage driving a red Model 3 electric
car. He said Tesla has produced 50 cars, thirty for the employee buyers and 20
for the testing purpose.
Tesla Model 3 electric car has $35000 cost and it provides a
range of 350 km (220 miles) mileage on a single charge which makes it the
luxury electric car. A longer range version of the electric car is priced at
$44000 which will drive 500 km (310 miles) on a single charge. It has a 15 inch touch-stream display to the right of the driver and a streamlined dashboard devoid of buttons or knobs.
More than half a million reservations are up from about
373000 disclosed in April 2016 for the Electric cars. Customers pay $1000
refundable deposits for the car which is for tax credits.
New buyers would not receive their car till the end of 2018,
Elon said.
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Musk said: “We’re going to go through at least six months of
manufacturing hell.”
Tesla electric car company is facing hurdles due to slow
production rate and a high reservations of vehicles more than 500,000 to produce
next year are nearly six times its 2016 production. And Tesla would likely
outsell the BMW, Mercedes or Lexus brands in the U.S.
The delays in the production and quality issues marred the
launches of Tesla’s Model X and Model S electric cars and company is blaming
about the production problems due to shortfall during the second quarter of
this year.
According to Musk, simpler Model 3 design will surely reduce
Potential assembly line problems.
Steady delivery of Model 3s could be a cause of a heavy loss
of cash that would allow Tesla to avoid going again to capital markets of U.S.
to fund its operations.
Tesla a loss-making is trying to move into a different
league by building vehicles in high volume for customers able to pay little much
price than the average price of a conventional car or truck.
Musk has a broader plan to build a clean energy and
transportation company that offers electric semi trailer trucks, large scale
battery storage system and rooftop solar energy systems. And the Model 3
electric car is also the part of this plan.
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