Tesla Model 3: people are already lining up and setting up tents in front of stores around the world

Andreas Stephens from Sydney, Australia was the first person reported in line to reserve the Tesla Model 3 in store a whole 2 days before the doors open, but now that we are about 24 hours away from Tesla accepting reservations for its $35,000 long-range vehicle, we are starting to get reports of lines and tents at Tesla stores around the world.
Tesla will take reservations when the stores open during local business hours – you can check your local store business hours here. Online reservations will start at 8:30pm (3:30am UTC) at the same time that the livestream of the event will start.
A $1,000 deposit is required in the US and Tesla published the list of currency amount per country. Surprisingly, it requires only a $1,000 CAD deposit in Canada despite the very weak Canadian dollar, which could encourage people to go ahead and place a deposit especially since it’s refundable.
It seems to already have an effect as we see two tents already set up in front of the Tesla Montreal store and a line in front of the Vancouver store:
Via Imgur
Update: The owner of the awesome Model 3 custom tent in Montreal, Ian Pavelko, reached out to us and you can follow his Twitter feed for updates:
Dawn!
— Mad Hungarian (@IanPavelko) March 30, 2016
1 night down, 1 to go.#Model3 reserve camping pic.twitter.com/fxHiLr4mj8
Some people have also been spotted in Melbourne:
Campers have hit the Melbourne store #model3 #tesla pic.twitter.com/jrOmkCAkK0
— Heath Walker (@TexWalkerRanger) March 30, 2016
And someone also set up a tent at the Tesla Boston store:
Tesla is now also sharing a few pictures of early adopters waiting at its stores:
Fort Worth, TX
And Toronto (appropriately reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future):
A queue is starting at Tesla’s Rocklin store in California:
And so it begins #Tesla #Model3 pic.twitter.com/ldmUh9Uygr
— Bonnie Norman (@bonnienorman) March 30, 2016
Please let us know if you spot waiting lines or tents at Tesla’s locations. You can contact us via Twitter, email or simply leave a comment below.
The Tesla Model 3 will be unveiled at Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, on March 31st at 8:30pm Pacific. If you want to reserve the vehicle, Tesla revealed all the reservation process details per region and here’s everything we know about the vehicle.
Update: Exclusive Tesla Model 3 leaked specs show 0-60 under 4 sec and 300+ mile range options
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