Tesla delays price hike because of ‘unusually high volume’ of last-minute orders

Tesla has delayed a planned 3 percent price hike on all of its cars until midnight on Wednesday because it had trouble processing a rush of last-minute orders, the company claimed on Twitter on Tuesday morning.

“Due to unusually high volume, Tesla was unable to process all orders by midnight on Monday, so the slight price rise on vehicles is postponed to midnight Wednesday,” the company wrote.

On February 28th, Tesla announced that it was lowering prices by 6 percent on all models after deciding to close most of its stores and switch to an online-only sales model. The company said it made these changes in order to cut operating costs, which finally allowed Tesla to start taking orders for the $35,000 version of the Model 3 that it had…

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