. >> melissa, when you look at what's going on withtesla, it' pretty simple.y are eliminating about 3100 jobs and the reason is they need to lower the cost of the model 3. in an e-mail to employees, elon musk said while we have made great progress, our products are still too expensive for most people how expensive is the model 3 they talked about some day selling it for $35,000 the reality is that most model 3s on average are selling between $50,000 and $55,000. elon musk would like to raise the volume and bring that average transaction price down somewhere in that $40,000 range, maybe $35,000 to $40,000 in order to do that, they have to be a lot more efficient and lower their costs, which is why when you take a look at shares of tesla, keep in mind that he also said today they would be likely posting a profit, a tiny profit in the fourth quarter it will be lower than the third quarter but it is in his opinion going to be a profit however, going forward, we're in that area of lumpy deliveries. not entirely sure about how much demand is there, especially as the