Tesla Showroom Opening Sept 9th in Santa Fe County, NM !

[SageBrush]

Post event update:

• Tesla is on pueblo of Nambe land
• The location has a full service center, shows cars and gives test drives, and delivers new car sales. Pretty much the whole monte.
• IIRC, 6 Tesla L2 EVSE's in back. Looked reserved for Tesla use.

The event was attended by 30 - 50 people (my WAG.) Senator Heinrich as well as local functionaries including the governor of Nambe pueblo gave speeches.

All in all, the facts were the story and not the spectacle. Just the way I like it!
Tesla has broken a logjam in NM, and I hope their success here propagates across the country. And of course having local service is pretty darned awesome.

Go Tesla !

 

[dogunter]

It is a full service center!

 

[digitaldad]

This is very cool, glad it ended up being all that was possible. Did they say when they start/open (most specifically deliveries)?
Have to go to COS in 2 weeks...would be great to just drive here

 

[SFNM Jack]

Read below…. I guess this is happening. Asked my advisor to check into moving my delivery location to SFNM from Colorado Springs. Welcome will see

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
Tesla is bringing an electric vehicle sales and service facility to New Mexico, officials announced Thursday afternoon.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham joined Nambé Pueblo Gov. Phillip Perez to celebrate the first-ever partnership between Tesla and a sovereign Pueblo in bringing a clean energy facility to the Pueblo.

Tesla in partnership with the pueblo plans to repurpose a defunct casino at Nambé into its first sales, service and delivery center in New Mexico.
In a statement, Gov. Lujan Grisham said, "Automakers the world over acknowledge that low-emission and zero-emission vehicles are the future – New Mexico is on board, and has been on board, and the rest of the country is going to get on board, too. I welcome any and all good ideas from Tesla and the Pueblo of Nambé about how we can do even more.”
Telsa prides itself on clean energy in its manufacturing and car sales to run and the Governor of Nambe Pueblo was proud to partner with the company.
The lawmakers delivered remarks on Thursday and highlighted their ongoing efforts to decarbonize the nation's transportation infrastructure as well as to expand the accessibility of electric vehicles.

 

[SFNM Jack]

This is very cool, glad it ended up being all that was possible. Did they say when they start/open (most specifically deliveries)?
Have to go to COS in 2 weeks...would be great to just drive here

Dude…. Ask your advisor and please let me know what goes down

 

[Noneduck]

Tesla should be able replicate this strategy in several other states.

 

[MarkoC]

This is great but wouldn’t it much more useful down closer to Albuquerque where the major population center is? Hopefully that is being planned. This would have come in very handy to me a few years ago when my AC compressor went out after charging in Tucamcari and I had to get a $1200 tow to Denver where the closest service center was at the time.

 

[MorrisonHiker]

This is great but wouldn’t it much more useful down closer to Albuquerque where the major population center is? Hopefully that is being planned. This would have come in very handy to me a few years ago when my AC compressor went out after charging in Tucamcari and I had to get a $1200 tow to Denver where the closest service center was at the time.

Thanks to state dealership associations, antiquated laws and state politicians, it is currently illegal for Tesla to open showrooms and service centers in several states, including New Mexico. See New Mexico Law Prohibits Tesla Stores and Service Centers

Tesla found a way around the laws by working with the Nambé Pueblo to locate the service center on their land.

 

[PLUS EV]

Thanks to state dealership associations, antiquated laws and state politicians, it is currently illegal for Tesla to open showrooms and service centers in several states, including New Mexico. See New Mexico Law Prohibits Tesla Stores and Service Centers

Tesla found a way around the laws by working with the Nambé Pueblo to locate the service center on their land.

There are tribes down in the ABQ area though. Notably Sandia and Isleta Pueblos. Even Santa Ana in Bernalillo wouldn't be bad.

 

[MorrisonHiker]

There are tribes down in the ABQ area though. Notably Sandia and Isleta Pueblos. Even Santa Ana in Bernalillo wouldn't be bad.

Great. Hopefully they will be able to open more locations in NM by working with other tribes as well.

 

[JimboEV]

This is very cool, glad it ended up being all that was possible. Did they say when they start/open (most specifically deliveries)?
Have to go to COS in 2 weeks...would be great to just drive here

I'm in the same boat. EDD 9/22-9/30 in Colorado Springs. Would love to pick up in Santa Fe instead, but when I called the main number to inquire (don't have a SA that I'm aware of), they said the NM location was in "soft" opening mode and not performing deliveries yet.

Anxious...

 

[SageBrush]

There are tribes down in the ABQ area though. Notably Sandia and Isleta Pueblos. Even Santa Ana in Bernalillo wouldn't be bad.

What do you have against Santa Fe ? I'm a local in Albuquerque and I am delighted with the location.

 

[PLUS EV]

What do you have against Santa Fe ? I'm a local in Albuquerque and I am delighted with the location.

I have nothing against Santa Fe. Was just responding to others who didn't seem to like the location. Also there are more people in ABQ and presumably more Teslas there. They're close enough to each other that it isn't a big deal either way imo.

 

[SageBrush]

Was just responding to others who didn't seem to like the location

The state has been a Tesla orphan for a decade and now that it is not, people are still complaining ?

Pfft.

 

[PLUS EV]

The state has been a Tesla orphan for a decade and now that it is not, people are still complaining ?

Pfft.

Read the thread.

 

[SageBrush]

This new service center is awesome but I realized that for me at least, there is a rainy cloud in the sky. I loved the Tesla ranger operation in New Mexico. It was personal in a way that a service center will not be. No more hanging out with the Ranger at my home swapping Tesla stories, learning about the car and its maintenance, and making a personal connection.

Progress can carry a price. Sigh

 

[dgpcolorado]

I have nothing against Santa Fe. Was just responding to others who didn't seem to like the location. Also there are more people in ABQ and presumably more Teslas there. They're close enough to each other that it isn't a big deal either way imo.

While Albuquerque is bigger than Santa Fe, Los Alamos is a tech center and owners report that there are a lot Teslas in Santa Fe and Los Alamos.

Regardless, the new service center north of Santa Fe is close enough to Albuquerque to be way better than going to El Paso or Colorado Springs. I am envious! (My nearest service center is 300 miles, and a lot of mountains, away.)

 

[PLUS EV]

While Albuquerque is bigger than Santa Fe, Los Alamos is a tech center and owners report that there are a lot Teslas in Santa Fe and Los Alamos.

I'm aware of all that. But Santa Fe metro population is 114k while ABQ metro is over 900k. You can't tell me there are more Teslas in SF area than ABQ.

While getting something going in NM is the big story here, and the two areas are not that far apart so it isn't that big a deal, it does seem reasonable for an ABQ Tesla owner to wonder why they didn't put it in ABQ.

 

[SageBrush]

it does seem reasonable for an ABQ Tesla owner to wonder why they didn't put it in ABQ.

There are a handful of tribal lands that meet basic criteria of location. Just how many offers is it reasonable to think that Tesla could choose from ?

Since you are not local and may not know just how hard, and for how many years, Tesla and local Tesla advocates have been seeking any solution to get Tesla a presence in NM ,

I'll give you a hint: less than two

 

[PLUS EV]

There are a handful of tribal lands that meet basic criteria of location. Just how many offers is it reasonable to think that Tesla could choose from ?

Since you are not local and may not know just how hard, and for how many years, Tesla and local Tesla advocates have been seeking any solution to get Tesla a presence in NM ,

I'll give you a hint: less than two

Kind of a weird ad hominem "appeal to authority" attack, but I'm not going to waste everyone's time trying to prove why I might know something about New Mexico and the pueblos/reservations in particular.

Like I said before, I'm not the one who was complaining that it wasn't put in ABQ. You can read the thread and go back and quote their posts if you feel like it. But they weren't wrong in suggesting that an ABQ location might have been preferable even if just slightly. Anyways, like everyone else here, I'm glad Tesla will now have a presence in yet another state.