Tesla lovers in an oil and gas loving state

[Robert1969]

If this isn't the right forum for this kind of news, I apologize, but from my hometown, whose news I still keep up with...

It's tough to say what is most surprising about the Tesla Model S all-electric sedan — the radical design changes that ensue when an automaker replaces the gas engine with state-of-the-art energy efficiency, or that the vehicle isn't confined to some Silicon Valley fantasy at all. A small but dedicated group of Tesla owners is quickly growing in New Orleans, and Tesla Motors is in the process of creating a new infrastructure to support their customers across the oil and gas-loving Gulf Coast.


  "The car really feels like the future," said Matt Wisdom, CEO of New Orleans-based technology company TurboSquid and one of the first Tesla owners in the area. "It's not that they've built a relatively expensive car. It's that they've figured out how it's going to be. I have no question things are going to migrate this way."


  Current Tesla owners were excited last week about the news that the company seems to be planning an expansion in New Orleans. Most of its stores and service centers are in California or the Northeast, with the closest locations already open in Houston, Atlanta and Tampa, Florida, but the company's website lists a number of other locations as "coming soon," including New Orleans, and the company's "careers" page currently has openings here for a service advisor and a service technician. Details about a New Orleans store are not listed, however, and Tesla officials did not respond to emails for comment.

Electric cars in New Orleans | News | Gambit - New Orleans News and Entertainment

 

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I live in Alberta, Canada. My city has the head offices of many oil and gas companies and many of the people I know make their living in the oil patch. That said, I have never heard a single negative comment when discussing Tesla.