Electric car for billions: Tesla beats pre-order records

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More than a quarter of a million people (276 thousand) from around the world have made a preliminary order to purchase a new Model-3 electric vehicle. I wrote about this in my account in Twitter head of Tesla Motors Inc. Ilon Musk. Billionaire writes about the company's profits. Only per day Tesla 180 took thousands of orders for the model of the average configuration. This is $ 7,5 billion, notes Musk.

According to new data, if we assume that orders were made for a model of a medium configuration, which costs $ 42 thousands, then Tesla should receive $ 11,7 billion. To compare the GDP (gross domestic product) of Armenia in 2014, it amounted to $ 11,6 billion. data leads The World Bank.

Recall that Tesla introduced the electric car Model-3, the cost of which starts at $35 thousand, is about half the cost of its two predecessors - the Model S and Model X sedans. Thanks to profits from sales of the Model S and Model X, Musk was able to develop and create a new budget electric car.

Tesla-3 is the result of a 10-year-old company. The base car accelerates to 100 km in 6 seconds and on a single charge can travel to 346 km.

Buyers must wait for their cars before 2017. The first to get them are the Americans, then the Europeans, and only after them the cars will be delivered to the rest of the country.

Like other Tesla models, Model-3 can be charged for free at special stations of the company, the number of which is planned to increase to 7,5 thousand by the end of 2017.

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