Tesla Model 3 Source: Tesla

Tesla is continuing to see demand for its first mass market car, the Model 3, with an average of 1,800 new orders a day. But on its quarterly earnings call, CEO Elon Musk revealed about 63,000 people have cancelled their Model 3 pre-orders. The number of orders went from approximately 518,000 to 455,000, Musk said. "Those cancellations occurred over the course of more than a year," Musk said on the call. "I think [these numbers] are inconsequential. With a small amount of effort we can easily drive the Model 3 reservation number to something much higher but there's no point. It's like if you're a restaurant and you're serving hamburgers and there's like an hour and a half wait for hamburgers do you really want to encourage more people to order more hamburgers?"

Still, those ordering Model 3s today will likely not receive their cars until the end of 2018 at the earliest. Musk didn't change its guidance on the production ramp of its mainstream vehicle, expecting to manufacture 5,000 Model 3 cars a week by the end of 2017. Musk said he has no doubt that the company will be able to reach a production rate of 10,000 cars a week by sometime in 2018. While Musk reiterated the difficulty of the next few months, he also said he's never felt better about the company. More from Recode: Vimeo finally explains why it's not launching its own version of Netflix

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Tesla is worth more than Ford and GM, despite having just 1 percent of their sales "When I said 'manufacturing hell,' I meant it," he said on the call. "We know this, we signed up for it. Not blaming hell because we bought the ticket. "This is maybe the best I've ever felt about Tesla to be frank," he continued.