Imagine getting 135,000 bookings for a car on the very first day of the launch! With the car not hitting the roads in the US before 2017! Thats the Tesla Model 3 for you!
Elon Musk has finally unveiled the Tesla Model 3 on 31st March 2016 to a world waiting with baited breath. Elon Musk says the Model 3 is the high volume, low cost electric car Tesla has been working to since its inception - and the first Tesla for the masses. Hence, this car is more important for Tesla than the Model S saloon or the Model X SUV.
The buzz was so much that people lined up outside dealerships just to put down a $1000 deposit for booking one. By the time Musk unveiled a Model 3 at the sprawling Space X campus here in Hawthorne, California, 115,000 customers had put their money down!
When the Model S was introduced in 2012, it had everything most people would ever want in a car—roomy, comfortable, practical, quick, and reliable. In fact, Motor Trend and Automobile Magazine called it the car of the year in 2013. Tesla has steadily improved the Model S in different areas such that 0-60 mph comes in an incredible 2.8 seconds! In October 2015, it introduced the Model X, a handsome, falcon-winged SUV based on the Model S.
But to change the world, one must have a car that you can sell to everyone. Át $35,000, the Model 3 promises to do just that. Inside, the new car feels just like the Model S and X—sleek and minimalist. The whole roof is glass, which makes any sunroof look like a peephole. And Tesla’s trademark enormous center console screen—here 15 inches instead of the usual 17—has been flipped to sit horizontally.
Doing 0-60 mph under 60 seconds, going 2015 miles before the next recharge, having a 5-star safety rating as well as autopilot safety features, the Model 3 might just be in Musk's words that "you will not be able to buy a better car for $35,000".
Now, we wait and watch to see the disruption it will cause in the industry.
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I agree. The kind of car that will change the world.
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