Tesla's Scant Disclosures on the Model 3 Leave Wall Street Guessing

  • Carmaker reports fourth-quarter sales and production this week
  • Numbers will shed light on progress toward fixing bottlenecks
Tesla Leaves Analysts Guessing on Model 3
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Tesla Inc. may have delivered about four times more Model 3 sedans last quarter than in the prior three months, or boosted sales by a factor of 27, depending on which analyst you ask.

The broad range of estimates reflects how little the electric-car maker has disclosed about the progress it’s made speeding up production of its sedan that starts at $35,000. Model 3 deliveries might have climbed to about 2,917 vehicles, the average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News.