Besides that I wonder how accurate the claim of the cancelled orders is, Tesla at the beginning of the month clearly stated that they had about 420k reservation

Besides that I wonder how accurate the claim of the cancelled orders is, Tesla at the beginning of the month clearly stated that they had about 420k reservations. Whatever the number of cancelled reservations are, it seems that the number of open reservations is quite stable. It is not a surprise that there are quite a few cancellations. People might need a car more urgently, or just reconsidered. On the other side, of course people haven't stopped putting down reservations. And so far, Tesla has not marketed the car. This is just about to change, Tesla has prepared 100 Model 3 Performance to be set up at the Tesla stores for offering test drives for the first time, since the Model 3 came to market. That is certainly going to create more orders, as most people wouldn't place an order without a proper test drive.