Tesla’s First Mass-Market Car, the Model 3, Hits Production This Week<br />By NEAL E. BOUDETTEJULY 3, 2017<br />Tesla Motors’ first mass-market car, the Model 3, will begin rolling off the line on Friday,<br />two weeks earlier than planned, Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, said late Sunday.<br />In June, Mr. Musk told shareholders that Model 3 production was set to begin in July at the company’s assembly<br />plant in Fremont, Calif., although he stopped short of saying when the car would be available in volume<br />Mr. Musk envisions the new car reaching a much wider range of customers<br />and has said he expects it to push Tesla’s output to 500,000 cars a year in 2018.<br />The Model 3 is a critical test for Mr. Musk and his ambitious plan to turn Tesla into a producer of mass-market electric cars.
