With roughly 373,000 people already waiting on Tesla’s most affordable car yet, British customers might need to be even more patient than their counterparts from across the pond.
According to Autoexpress, the American EV-maker hopes to fulfill over half those orders (approx 200,000) next year, with the rest in 2018 when annual production will be scaled to 500,000 vehicles.
When it does arrive in the UK, the Model 3 will try to steal customers away from the likes of the diesel-powered BMW 3-Series, Audi A4, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Volvo S60 and Jaguar XE, but also and perhaps more directly, it will impact models such as the BMW 330e PHEV. Price-wise, the Model 3 should cost upwards of £35,000, which factoring in the plug-in car grant, could still be considered a competitive price.
Currently, the Model 3 is priced from $35,000 in the US, the equivalent of £24,400, but that number was never going to remain realistic in a market such as the UK, where Tesla hasn’t even confirmed free Supercharger network usage for the Model 3 as they have for the Model S.
The world is still looking forward to Tesla releasing more details about the Model 3, which was revealed only as a pre-production model back in April. While the exterior and interior designs are very close to the final product, there will be a few alterations here and there – like the production-ready steering wheel which Elon Musk feels will shock everybody, in a good way.
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