Tesla Model 3 Photos Flooding Instagram — Florida, Texas, New York, Ohio (+ Interesting Employee Car Agreement Details Leaked)

October 23rd, 2017 by Zachary Shahan

In the past month, we’ve gotten multiple reports of Tesla Model 3s rolling around the streets of Florida, Texas, New York, and even Canada. Tesla staff, SpaceX staff, and reportedly Tesla engineers at certain stores needing to get familiar with the cars have been receiving early units. I finally decided to go grab some Model 3 spy shots from Instagram in order to share the excitement here … and I discovered that numerous new Model 3 photos and videos have been hitting instagram in the past several hours, including a video of a Model 3 parking itself and a video of a Model 3 with the “rainbow road” Easter egg activated (my favorite of all the great Tesla Easter eggs).

On the side, I also received a leak of a portion of the employee agreement that must be signed when buying the Model 3 (well, when configuring the car and paying the $2500 down payment). The agreement includes a particularly interesting line on what Tesla can do if the employee tries to monkey around and quickly part ways with the car for some extra cash. Scroll down to the bottom for details — I think you can guess one result, but the other was an interesting surprise for me.

Below are 25 instagram pics and videos of new Tesla Model 3 beauties snapped rolling along the street, parked and looking cool, in a Tesla store being delivered to their happy customers, etc. Before the instagram fun, though, here’s a picture one of our readers apparently shot and shared in a comment thread here on CleanTechnica (unfortunately, I can’t remember what thread it was or who shared it):

The car looks huge there. I checked multiple times to make sure it wasn’t a Model X. 😀

Here are the recent hot shots from instagram for some more eye candy:

Congrats @trauts6‼️ #Tesla #Model3 🚗🔋🔌 A post shared by Tesla NY (@teslanewyork) on Oct 23, 2017 at 3:15am PDT

First Model 3 in Ohio. #Tesla #Model3 #ModelII A post shared by Sarah Woody (@sarahaubrey) on Oct 22, 2017 at 11:58am PDT

Parallel Parking #tesla #teslamodel3 #model3 A post shared by 3 (@model3guy) on Oct 21, 2017 at 9:35pm PDT

Cool! First #Tesla #model3 I’ve seen out in the wild #teslamodel3 A post shared by Mr. Ferlie (@mrferlie) on Oct 23, 2017 at 12:39pm PDT

故乡才可以这么时尚 #tesla#model3 A post shared by 梁正好Calvin Liang (@awesomecl) on Oct 23, 2017 at 11:38am PDT

First delivery of #Tesla #Model3 in #NYC @teslamotors @elonmusk A post shared by Dan Wettlaufer (@danwettlaufer) on Oct 23, 2017 at 9:09am PDT

Saw the exact #Tesla #Model3 I would order if I got the call today. #teslamodel3 #tsla #instagood #paloalto #siliconevalley A post shared by Dmack Daddy (@dmackdaddy) on Oct 22, 2017 at 11:21pm PDT

Tesla Model 3 in front of our Walnut Creek showroom. Photo courtesy of @lilguybabyeli #tesla #model3 A post shared by ☠️Ryan Torres☠️ (@ryantorres) on Oct 22, 2017 at 9:13pm PDT

Model 3 in front of our showroom! #Tesla #model3 #blackbeauty A post shared by Matt Porter (@bayareagearhead) on Oct 23, 2017 at 7:53am PDT

One more from today. #model3 #tesla #fanboy A post shared by Andrew Mellenger (@mellenger) on Oct 22, 2017 at 6:28pm PDT

The EV-olution is beginning, one Model 3 at a time #Tesla #Model3 #EV A post shared by Matthew Skewes (@math4us) on Oct 22, 2017 at 6:04pm PDT

Saw my first Tesla Model 3 😍 #tesla #model3 #northbay #marin #california A post shared by Mason Chance (@masonchance) on Oct 22, 2017 at 5:43pm PDT

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. #model3 #inthewild A post shared by Hrishikesh Marathe (@hrishirich11) on Oct 22, 2017 at 11:08am PDT

#model3 A post shared by Tyler S (@tylersuphoto) on Oct 21, 2017 at 11:04am PDT

Oh yeah, here’s the section of the employee car agreement that is particularly interesting to anyone looking to sell or buy an early staff-bought vehicle:

The fact that a Tesla or SpaceX employee could be fired for trying to profit on an early Model 3 reservation isn’t a surprise, but I didn’t anticipate that Tesla would actually “reduce or disable certain functionality” in a vehicle that was quickly flipped. That’s a rather effective way of squashing any demand for an early “used Model 3.”

Find other hot pics or videos of the Model 3? Drop them in the comments!











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