Have you seen any other electric cars where you'll be driving around? Any Roadsters maybe? And on a scale of 1 to Beiber, how popular will this purchase make you at work and in your neighborhood?
There are a ton of electrics around. The Leaf and MiEV sell quite well because of the incentive program and the government got 100 MiEV's for the social workers who need to drive around constantly, those have been around for almost a year now.
There was one Roadster that I think was owned by the richest person in Estonia Armin Karu if I remember right (he's the owner of the Olympic casino chain), but I didn't find a reference now for it. With regard to popularity, no clue
I know my boss is already tired of all the Tesla talk and he's a person who believes cars are all the same and are to get you as cheaply as possible from A to B
But I have heard from friends funny stories that if their friends find out that I'm buying a Model S that they say "wow, really? I should friend him or smth"
There definitely is a LOT of interest for this car and I have already lost track of all the test drive requests that I've gotten from friends and colleagues and ex-coworkers and their friends once the car arrives. I'm guessing I'll be spending half the time driving it and half the time doing ads for it to people
I've had a discussion with the people who do the buildout of EV chargers as well as the subsidy and everything related to EVs and they'd be extremely interested in doing a PR event when the car arrives to celebrate the arrival of a real EV sedan for long distance to also Estonia. If the media actually finds this interesting and they cover it I'll link here
Now to sate my appetite and to have something to salivate about I asked Tesla to send me pics of the car as it waits for me in Tilburg, here they are
