The Model 3 will be Tesla's biggest test yet
Tesla on Wednesday announced plans to raise $1.15 billion from a stock and senior notes offering. The company says the cash infusion will be used in part to "reduce any risks associated with the rapid scaling of its business due to the launch of the Model 3," its hotly-anticipated affordable electric sedan.
If that doesn't make it clear, this chart from Statista should: The Model 3 will be new territory for CEO Elon Musk and Tesla as a company. The sedan - which, at a cost of around $35,000, will be something close to the electric carmaker's first mainstream offering - has already received at least 400,000 pre-orders. Musk has said the company plans to produce 5,000 vehicles per week in the fourth quarter of this year to start meeting that demand, then ramp things up to 10,000 vehicles per week sometime next year.
That'll be a big jump for a company that's delivered just 183,000 of its two current models, the higher-end Model S and Model X, over the past five years combined. Given the delays that hit those models - and given the high expectations for the Model 3 to make electric cars more of a thing - the pressure is on for Tesla to follow through. Then it'll have to deal with what comes next.
Business Insider/Mike Nudelman/Statista
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