Reportedly planning to delay Model 3 to 2018 from late 2017 - industry press "According to an official Tesla document, the upcoming $35,000 Tesla Model 3 has been delayed. Tesla had long promised that the 200-plus mile Model 3 would arrive at least in limited production in late 2017, but now (via an official Tesla Motors slide presentation released at the 2015 EIA Conference on June 15 in Washington, D.C.) weve learned that the Model 3 is now planned for 2018."