Tesla has now received 325,000 reservations for the new Model 3, which corresponds to about $14 billion (nearly £9.94bn) in implied future sales.
276,000 of those deposits came in the first 72 hours of order books being opened, with 117,000 orders placed before the car been unveiled.
The Model 3, unveiled at a launch event in California, is the fourth all-electric model to come from Tesla and is the affordable car that company owner Elon Musk says he set out to build from the very beginning.
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