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Tesla dealerships around the world had huge lineups Thursday morning, and Montreal was no exception.

By 8 a.m., more than 200 people had gathered outside the dealership on Ferrier St. in Côte-des-Neiges—Nôtre-Dame-de-Grâce. All of them were waiting to put down refundable $1,000 deposits for a chance to buy an electric car they have never seen, and won’t be able to drive until sometime next year at the earliest.

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Thursday, starting at 9 a.m., was the first day Tesla was accepting deposits for the much-hyped car.

Photo by Phil Carpenter / Montreal Gazette

Among the crowd was a busload that came from Quebec City.

The first in line was Vaudreuil-Dorion resident Ian Pavelko, who arrived at the dealership on Tuesday at 5 p.m., and spent two nights in a tent pitched in the dealership’s parking lot. He bought a tent specifically for the wait, and had a graphic artist who works with him at Fastco, a wheel manufacturing company, put the Tesla logo on it.