Tesla Model 3 on the street.
325,000 people ordered the Tesla Model 3 in the first week.In a post titled "The week that electric vehicles went mainstream," Tesla (TSLA) said the deposits will equate to $14 billion in future sales. The cars have a $35,000 starting price, but Musk said last week that buyers are ordering options that bring the average price to about $42,000.
Most of the orders came in just the first few days, with Musk tweeting that there were 276,000 placed through Saturday. He said even he was surprised by the volume of early orders.
"This [is] the single biggest one-week launch of any product ever," said Tesla's statement.
By comparison, Apple's (AAPL, Tech30) largest launch logged at least $8.5 billion in sales, when the iPhone 6S sold 13 million units on its opening weekend.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/07/autos/tesla-model-3-orders/