Tesla's first mass-market electric car, the Model 3, hits production this week
The firm will sell the mid-priced car for about US$35,000
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TESLA'S long-awaited mass-market electric car will begin rolling off the assembly line this week. But even as it moves ahead, the carmaker is encountering challenges to its ambitious plans for growth.
On Monday, it acknowledged that it had experienced a "severe shortfall" in production of 100-kilowatt battery packs that use new technologies and are made on new assembly lines.
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