Tesla Model 3 – pre-orders approaching $10 billion – updates

Tesla Model 3
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Update:

Over 325k cars or ~$14B in preorders in first week. Only 5% ordered max of two, suggesting low levels of speculation.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2016

Update:

253k as of 7am this morning

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2016

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10 hrs ago

Now 232k orders

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2016

Using the earlier estimate of average selling price:
$42,000 x 232,000 = $9.744 billion

20 hrs ago

Model 3 orders at 180,000 in 24 hours. Selling price w avg option mix prob $42k, so ~$7.5B in a day. Future of electric cars looking bright!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2016

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