Today, several people who placed an order for the vehicle are reporting receiving an email from Tesla about receiving their vehicles sooner.
One of those buyers shared the email with Electrek:
Hi,
We are contacting you about your Model 3 Standard Range Plus, currently estimated for delivery near the end of the year. We’d like to offer you the opportunity to receive your car even sooner. Due to limited supply and strong customer demand, we are introducing the Model 3 Standard Range Plus battery pack, which we already released in Europe and Asia, to North America. This battery has a range of 253 miles (est.).
If you are interested in taking delivery as early as September, please visit our inventory page and search for Model 3 Standard Range Plus vehicles. If you choose to order, your original order fee can be applied to the purchase price of your vehicle upon delivery.
We will continue adding inventory on a rolling basis. Please check back regularly for a refreshed selection. Thank you for your continued support.
Best Regards, The Tesla Team
The email is confusing because Tesla is talking about “Model 3 Standard Range Plus battery pack,” but that’s something that has already been available in the US.
However, the automaker refers to “already released in Europe and Asia,” which hints at the different version of the Model 3 Standard Range Plus offered in those markets.
Tesla produces a Model 3 Standard Range Plus with iron phosphate battery cells at Ggiafactory Shanghai.
The automaker sells those vehicles locally in China, and more recently, it started exporting them to markets in Europe and APAC.
Electrek’s Take
This email is really not clear.
I doubt that it means Tesla is importing the China-made Model 3 Standard Range Plus to the US, but it almost sounds like that.
Tesla could have imported LFP battery cells and built the same Model 3 Standard Range Plus vehicles in Fremont factory as it does in China.
It sounds like based on the EPA standard, the automaker expects the new version to get 10 fewer miles of range on a single charge. That’s in line with the Chinese version.
LFP cells are heavier than NCA and NMC Li-ion chemistries, but they do offer some advantages in terms of longevity and safety.
Overall, it’s an interesting development and another example of poor communication from Tesla.
Sabrina Carpenter has set a new UK chart record by becoming the youngest female artist to take the top two singles spots in the same week.
The US singer reached number one on the Official Charts Company rundown with Please Please Please, pushing Espresso, which had been at the top for five weeks, down to number two.
Please Please Please totalled 9.8 million combined streams, while Espresso came in second with 8.1 million streams.
Image: Sabrina Carpenter during the BBC Radio1 Big Weekend in May. Pic: PA
At the age of 25 years, one month and 10 days, Carpenter overtakes Ariana Grande, the previous youngest holder of the record, by around six months.
Grande achieved the same two-spot hold in the same week when she was 25 years, seven months and 20 days old in February 2019 with 7 Rings at number one and Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored at number two.
Eminem is at number three this week with Houdini, while Billie Eilish’s Birds Of A Feather is at number four, followed by Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy).
Taylor Swift doesn’t make the top five, but sets a new personal best in the albums chart with a seventh week at the top.
The Tortured Poets Department earns a seventh non-consecutive week at number one, surpassing 2022’s Midnights which spent five weeks at the summit.
Swift is in the UK for her Eras Tour, and will take to the stage in London’s Wembley Stadium on Friday evening.
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Image: Taylor Swift. Pic: David Fisher/Shutterstock
At number two is US singer-songwriter Eilish’s latest record Hit Me Hard And Soft, while British singer Charli XCX’s Brat came in at number three.
In fourth spot is Canadian musician The Weeknd’s greatest hits collection The Highlights.
British rock group Sea Girls also celebrate a hat-trick of top five albums as their third studio collection Midnight Butterflies makes its debut at number five.
The group previously saw success with 2020’s Open Up Your Head and 2022 LP Homesick, which both reached number three.
London’s iconic Tube map has been redrawn to celebrate the arrival of Taylor Swift’s tour in the capital.
As the US megastar’s Eras Tour descends on the city, fans, or Swifties, will be able to navigate their way around using a redesigned London Underground layout, with each line named after a different album and drawn in sequin colours to match – with stations denoted by her songs.
Under the changes, the Central Line has been renamed Red after the singer’s fourth album while the Victoria Line becomes 1989, the Bakerloo Line Evermore and the Northern Line her latest release, The Tortured Poets Department.
The map also highlights a host of places across the capital that are referenced in her music.
Notable locations on the Taylor trail – some of which feature in her song London Boy, include the West End, Soho, Bond Street, Camden Market, Highgate, Hampstead Heath, Vauxhall, Shoreditch, Hackney, Brixton and Kentish Town.
Image: Swift has already played sell-out shows in Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff. Pic: David Fisher/Shutterstock
Image: Each line is named after a different album and stations denoted by her songs. Mayor of London’s Press Office/PA
Swift-fever even spread to Buckingham Palace earlier on Friday where Shake It Off was played at the traditional Changing of the Guard ceremony.
The pop star has already played sell-out shows in Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff and it is now the turn of fans at Wembley Stadium to get a sprinkling of stardust.
They have waited more than a year for the tour to arrive, after Swift kicked off her marathon string of dates in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023.
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Since then, she has crossed the US, Asia and South America and made stops across Europe, sometimes accompanied by her boyfriend, the American football star Travis Kelce.
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She will play three nights at Wembley Stadium on Friday, Saturday and Sunday before taking the tour to Dublin next week.
Swift will return to London for five more shows in August.
Image: The map has been redesigned to mark the megastar’s arrival in the capital. Mayor of London’s Press Office/PA
Her fans are expected to boost the London economy by £300m as the capital hosts more Eras Tour shows than any other city in the world, with nearly 640,000 people expected to attend across the eight dates.
Specially-designed murals have also been created to mark her arrival.
Image: Jen Neal, who crocheted a Taylor Swift blanket over 50 hours, shows off her work outside Wembley
Image: Wembley’s Spanish Steps have temporarily been renamed the Swiftie Steps. Pic: PA
Wembley Park is hosting two new public artworks including one on the Spanish Steps, which are being temporarily renamed the Swiftie Steps.
The blockbuster tour takes fans on a journey through the different musical stages of her career.
Image: Excited fans have been gathering throughout the day. Pic: PA
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Thousands of concert-goers have already arrived at Wembley eager to soak up the atmosphere of what promises to be a memorable performance.
Among those at the stadium were Lauren Robinson, 20, who had travelled from Cheshire, and her friend Grace Arnold, 24, who had travelled from the Wirral.
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Image: Fans gather outside Wembley Stadium in London, ahead of Taylor Swift’s first London concert. Pic: PA
Ms Robinson said: “Coming to the capital has got to be the best place to see the tour.”
She added: “It’s like going to a party with all your best friends.”
Image: Fans wait outside Wembley Stadium in London, ahead of Taylor Swift’s first London concert. Pic: PA
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Ms Arnold said she was most looking forward to the Folklore set (Swift’s eighth studio album), but said the potential surprise songs “actually make me feel sick to think about”.
Tributes have poured in for actor Donald Sutherland after he died following a long illness.
The 88-year-old was best known for his roles in Ordinary People, The Hunger Games franchise and M*A*S*H.
His son, Kiefer Sutherland, confirmed the news “with a heavy heart” as Oscar-winner Jane Fonda and other stars of the big screen led tributes to the Canadian actor.
“With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away.
“I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film.
“Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived,” the son said of his father.
Image: Donald Sutherland attending the UK premiere of The Hunger Games
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Among Sutherland’s best-known roles was the detective John Klute, who attempted to protect Fonda’s character Bree Daniels from a killer stalking her.
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US actress Fonda shared a black-and-white image of Sutherland from their 1971 hit where she won her Oscar for best actress, and said: “I am heartbroken,”.
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The pair dated for a period in 1971 and staged a travelling anti-war roadshow for US soldiers.
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Image: Actor Donald Sutherland answers questions from film critic Leonard Maltin in 1998. Pic: Reuters
Leading politicians like US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also paid tribute after the actor’s passing.
Mr Trudeau called him a “truly great Canadian artist”, after he learned of his death during a news conference relating to a national school food programme.
Mr Biden described Sutherland as a “one-of-a-kind actor who inspired and entertained the world for decades” in a post on X.
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Dame Helen Mirren was among the British actors and actresses paying tribute.
She appeared alongside Sutherland in 2017’s The Leisure Seeker, following their 1990 drama Bethune: The Making Of A Hero.
“Donald Sutherland was one of the smartest actors I ever worked with,” Dame Helen said in a statement.
“He had a wonderful enquiring brain and a great knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.
“He combined this great intelligence with a deep sensitivity and with a seriousness about his profession as an actor.
“This all made him into the legend of film that he became.”
Most recently, many will know Sutherland from his role in The Hunger Games franchise where he played dictator President Coriolanus Snow.
The official account for The Hunger Games film called him “the kindest man in the world” who portrayed “the most corrupt, ruthless dictator we’ve ever seen”.
Image: Sutherland with his son Kiefer. Pic: Reuters
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Throughout his career, Sutherland is perhaps best known as the womanising Captain Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce Junior, from the 1970 film version M*A*S*H.
His co-star Elliott Gould, who played the Captain ‘Trapper’ John Francis Xavier McIntyre, called Sutherland a “giant” who was “enormously kind and generous”.
Gould recalled they were both “young fathers” when they worked together and said his death “really profoundly hurts because Donald was like my brother, and a big part of my own career”.
Rob Lowe, known for his role in The West Wing and a number of other movies, said Sutherland was “one of our greatest actors” and that it had been an “honour” to star alongside him on the miniseries Salem’s Lot, in 2004.
“I will never forget his charisma and ability,” Lowe said.
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