1) The new Denver service center is fully operational. They're still getting their many palettes of spare parts organized, so the parts guy is consuming more caffeine than is strictly appropriate for long-term mental health. I had a rear running light replaced and the water leak that caused it to fail repaired. They have a metric boatload of destination chargers in the parking lot
and two supercharger cabinets inside (for service use only).
One building is used for delivery walk-throughs
, the other is for sales
and service
.
2) The Evans site has been decommissioned as a customer-facing site. I got conflicting stories about whether it will remain a Tesla facility for other uses (refurb, storage, parts, etc.)
3) Tesla was grandfathered into a change in the Colorado Revised Statutes which said that no new dealership licences could be issued to company-owned dealerships. However, since other dealerships seem to have multiple points of presence in the state under one licence, Tesla argued that they should be allowed to do the same. So apparently we are going to get multiple service facilities. And we already have multiple showrooms. The original Park Meadows showroom has moved into the much larger space formerly occupied by Apple (which moved down the hall). There is now a showroom in Cherry Creek, also Vail
and Aspen. They had to take out a couple panels of the front window to get the Model S into the Vail showroom.
(I told some random kids that they could all fit in the trunk, so they had to demo it. I'm evil that way.)