How does VIN registration work?

[Roy_H]

Tesla recently registered just 3 new VINs for the Model 3. and it appears that they have over 10k unused VINs. Just trying to understand why a company making thousands of cars per week, would need to register just 3 VINs.

 

[MikeATL]

VIN is a worldwide system. They may be for a region where the car is not available yet,

 

[Roy_H]

VIN is a worldwide system. They may be for a region where the car is not available yet,

from: Model 3 VINs (@Model3VINs) | Twitter
They point out that there was a previous 19 VINs for Europe, but make no statement about the last 3 being special. I guess I would like to see these VIN numbers for my self, but if there was something special about them, I expect they would have said.