Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla Model 3 Golden Ticket Winners Get Trip To Gigafactory Grand Opening

Published

June 29, 2016

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Among the ~400,000 Tesla Model 3 reservation holders, Tesla decided to have some fun and randomly select 12 to attend the Gigafactory Grand Opening on July 29 in Reno, Nevada.

Extending the fun Tesla loves to have with its workers, owners, and even robots, Tesla has named these 12 lucky winners “Golden Ticket Winners” — yep, that’s yet another Tesla reference to an iconic film. (See this story for one of our favorites: “These Go To 11” — Tesla, Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest, & Jamie Lee Curtis.)

As you can see in the pic on the right, from lucky winner Joël Staub‎, Tesla is covering flights (economy class), ground transport, and accommodation for the 12 Golden Ticket winners.

Man, those must be 12 extra-thrilled Model 3 reservation holders, and another 12 thrilled +1s.

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Written By Zachary Shahan

Zach is tryin' to help society help itself one word at a time. He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as its director, chief editor, and CEO. Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, and Curaçao. Zach has long-term investments in Tesla [TSLA], NIO [NIO], Xpeng [XPEV], Ford [F], ChargePoint [CHPT], Amazon [AMZN], Piedmont Lithium [PLL], Lithium Americas [LAC], Albemarle Corporation [ALB], Nouveau Monde Graphite [NMGRF], Talon Metals [TLOFF], Arclight Clean Transition Corp [ACTC], and Starbucks [SBUX]. But he does not offer (explicitly or implicitly) investment advice of any sort.