Thanks Cankooo1. It's a BIG surprise to me for the Tesla Shanghai advancement even I followed up Chinese news so closely. But until yesterday, the Shanghai store information leaked and super charger station suddenly will be opened this week.
Maybe Guangzhou/Shengzhen store also under construction, just not leaked yet. With Beijing store only, the reported order # is 5000+. With Shanghai/Guangzhou/Chengdu store opened in 2nd or 3rd quarter, test driver available for public, first batch cars shown up on streets, the order # will be tripled at minimum, say 15000+, by end of 2014.
I talked to several of my wealthy friends in Hangzhou over the weekend. None of them made order yet, but they are well aware of Tesla presence. Giving an example of 300 miles range (480Km), their gasoline car will cost 640 RMB fuel charge, but with Model S, the electricity bill will be only 43 RMB. Also Model S has tax advantage than competitive gasoline vehicles because there is no "emission" tax which range 15-25% of the car price. There will be huge advantage of buying electrical car in China, time will prove.
Maybe Guangzhou/Shengzhen store also under construction, just not leaked yet. With Beijing store only, the reported order # is 5000+. With Shanghai/Guangzhou/Chengdu store opened in 2nd or 3rd quarter, test driver available for public, first batch cars shown up on streets, the order # will be tripled at minimum, say 15000+, by end of 2014.
I talked to several of my wealthy friends in Hangzhou over the weekend. None of them made order yet, but they are well aware of Tesla presence. Giving an example of 300 miles range (480Km), their gasoline car will cost 640 RMB fuel charge, but with Model S, the electricity bill will be only 43 RMB. Also Model S has tax advantage than competitive gasoline vehicles because there is no "emission" tax which range 15-25% of the car price. There will be huge advantage of buying electrical car in China, time will prove.
I am digging for more information and by the way Tesla and Elon Musk are all over the news. There was a constant interest before but now all of the Chinese TV channels are reporting. There are many recorded videos over the internet but sadly they are in Chinese and google translate doesn’t work with video.
Just some screenshots:
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I am waiting for CCTV to post the record of the conference today as it will be in English , but still nothing on their website.