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They need a lot more dealerships. Look at the map of their dealers and there's a huge hole in the middle of the country. A couple in Chicago, one in Denver, an
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
They need a lot more dealerships. Look at the map of their dealers and there's a huge hole in the middle of the country. A couple in Chicago, one in Denver, and one in Houston. That's it. If you live in say Tennessee you're looking at close to a 10 hour drive to even see one.
http://www.teslamotors.com/locations http://www.teslamotors.com/locations
- dangrossman 14y agoThey need something to sell first. All those showrooms can do right now is sell reservations for a possible 2014 sale.
- jcfrei 14y agoremember, tesla is not actually selling cars inside their "dealerships". customers still have to do this themselves on the tesla homepage - and even then it's just a reservation. source from a previous hacker news thread: http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-plans-short-circuit-car-dealers-194619627.html http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-plans-short-cir...
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoYou can't buy a Roadster?
- timdorr 14y agoNope. They stopped selling them in August 2011 when their supply of Lotus Elise gliders ran out.
- timdorr 14y agoTesla's strategy for retail is designed by George Blankenship, who created Apple's retail strategy. As a result, you should expect a similar approach: Stores built out near major population centers first until you have 80-90% of the country within a 100-50 mile range of a Tesla location.
- sahaj 14y agoIt's a population thing along with limited monetary resources.
- prostoalex 14y agoTesla will not do dealerships, only direct-to-consumer sales http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-...
- jonknee 14y agoThey're called flyover states for a reason. I wouldn't expect a big push into red states for quite a while.