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I don't know about New Zealand, but Iceland is part of the EU's single market when it comes to selling cars. I'd expect for a company like Tesla dealing with re

by avar 7y ago

I don't know about New Zealand, but Iceland is part of the EU's single market when it comes to selling cars. I'd expect for a company like Tesla dealing with regulatory overhead in new markets might be the limiting factor. New Zealand is an English speaking country so perhaps it's easier for them, and to sell cars in Iceland you don't need to do anything more than ship cars you're selling in the EU over and pay import tolls & registration fees.

Reason077 7y ago
Yes, but it's not quite as simple as registering cars and shipping them to customers. The cars need to be serviced, which means opening service centres in the destination market, and hiring skilled staff to do the servicing. Since Tesla doesn't sell through dealers, they also usually open a sales centre / Tesla store (which often also acts as a service centre). In Tesla's case, they also invest in building superchargers in the countries they operate in. All of this adds up to a fairly significant capital investment before they start selling vehicles in a new country.