The Tesla Model 3, their least expensive/most affordable electric vehicle, has hit the streets!  Well, 30 of them, anyway.

For those who haven’t seen them, they look like this:

The fact that 30 vehicles have been released may not sound like much but Elon Musk, the CEO of the company, boldly predicts we’ll be getting much more of the vehicles in the coming months.

He better hope this will be the case because, according to this article by Seth Fiegerman and presented on CNN…

Tesla now averaging more than 1800 Model 3 reservations a day

Its easy to be cynical and knock the limp numbers (so far) of Model 3’s available but, according to the article, Mr. Musk anticipates 1500 more vehicles produced in the third quarter (which we’re in) and, following this, 10,000 vehicles per week through the end of the year and into the next.

Which still means that if you’re pre-ordering the car, it will take a while to get your hands on it.  There are reportedly 450,000 pre-orders and, with the new orders coming in and assuming you decide to pre-order yours, you’ve got to wait through to the 4th quarter and, further assuming the 10,000 vehicles per week thing winds up being right, you’ll have to wait another 44 or so weeks before getting your own Model 3.

What’s most encouraging about all this is that there sure seems to be a big demand for these vehicles.

As I’ve said before, I’m happy with anything that’ll get us off combustion engines.