The first several thousand, if not 10,000+ are going to employees. I would not expect actual civilian customers to get a car for at least another 3+ months.

Nothing has been ordered. You are just reserving your spot in line so that if you like it when it comes out, you can order it then. And after you order your car, you will know that status of it, when it is being delivered and everything else, just like you do with any other car you order from a dealer.

$1000 is probably not much for most people wanting to buy these cars. I signed up. I do not miss my $1000 from my checking account and it shows Tesla that I am serious about wanting to buy the car.

I would guess that most people that are buying $35K+ cars are going to be paying at least $7500 in federal income taxes. Plus even if you do not have that tax liability, you can transfer some money from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, creating a tax liability to use whatever remains of the rebate.

The problem with buying cars at Costco is that you have to buy them in packs of 6.

Was your deposit fully refundable?

Putting the deposit down just gives me the option to buy one when my slot comes up. I will decide at that point, after test driving one, seeing them in person, getting the total pricing, whether I want one or not. If not, I get my $1000 back. It might have been a different story if that $1000 was not fully…

Someone else will buy my used car.

I have a deposit down. I have seen the updates on where they are at, Musk gives them all the time. I do not have an exact update on my car yet, but doe not expect it until it gets closer to the time to order it. I did not put a deposit down thinking that I was going to get the car on a certain date, and if I do not…

How does the dealer get the rebate? I thought that at the end of the year when you did your taxes, you would just claim the rebate and pay less in taxes for the year. And if your tax burden for the year was not $7500, then you would only be able to claim whatever you were supposed to pay.

They just shutdown the production line because they have way too much in the way of inventory of Bolts.

You mean the Chevy Bolt that just had the production line shutdown because they cannot sell enough and have a glut of inventory?

I hope they have a per charge type of payment also. Maybe you register your car and if you plug it in, they charge your credit card. That way if you only need it for a trip every few years, you could do that.

If Hillary was president, they all would have conveniently, accidentally, died.

He is worth $13B+, you think he is going to steal $400M and destroy his brand and future?

Visionaries often have ideas that technology does not know how to build right now. There are many things that great minds have thought up but because of technology and materials, they were not able to be built until hundreds of years later. And not every idea sees production. I do not think that there is a person…

Customer: I pre-ordered a Model 3 and I have a few additional questions. First, I was wondering when I will get it?

Down payments are not going to fund much of the work. Only a few hundred million dollars. It will cost billions.

I do not know in what strange world you live where “a lot of things” is the same as “everything”.

Your logic is flawed.