A Plea from Iceland to Tesla
Icelandic Tesla owners don't have the option to turn a Service Center visit into a road trip, unlike the Portuguese which, with about as many cars at the time, have been granted a Service Center. If there is a problem with the cars they need to be loaded into a container and shipped across the Atlantic to Rotterdam and trucked to Tilburg. With 66 cars already in Iceland and many Model 3's preordered we feel it is time Tesla opened a Service Center in Iceland. We would only need one, the country isn't that big and the majority of Tesla's are in the Southwest corner of the country.
Please help us by spreading this video around, so it hopefully will catch the eye of Elon Musk and the Tesla team.
Please help us by spreading this video around, so it hopefully will catch the eye of Elon Musk and the Tesla team.
0
Comments
Just to have one car to work on every work day of the year each of those 66 would have to spend 4 days in the shop.
Expanding stupidly will make it a lot harder to expand intelligently.
Write back once there are a few hundred more cars there.
I get it service is a big problem, but opening service centers for ever pocket of a few cars would be financial suicide.
(I live in Norway so I no self interest in this, I just wanted to make sure this didn't turn into a chicken and eggs discussion. The chickens are already there. Bring the eggs!)
I live in WI, and have either a 3 hour drive to Chicago or I choose 5hours to Minneapolis. Not as bad a shipping a car but not easy and I knew it going in. There are I would say less than 10 in the metro area I am closest to, I don't expect a service center for a long time.
350,000 people in Iceland. Ranger program when it becomes economical. 66 teslas is not a compelling number for a service station - even 350 Teslas, but I don't know what the magic number is.
Iceland has an amazing appreciation for ecology, and I completely appreciate that.
If Tesla were to build a service center there, I think they would do it as a bet that icelanders would buy 500 more cars than if there were no service center. But then again, the goal is not to need service someday in the far future.
I feel for you Iceland, but it is a hard sell right now.
I would see a sound business case for Tesla if they were to work with the rental car companies there that cater to all of those tourists. And some (mostly european) people will come by ferry with their own Teslas too.
If a fully equiped SC with 'sales' staff and all that is not viable, then maybe at least a well equiped work shop and a Tesla Ranger could be an alternative.
I could even see a SuC-business case with just 4 stations: one in Reykjavik, one in the south, one in the east (possibly near Eydisfjördur or Egilsstadir) and one near Akureyri, combined with a few destination chargers near hotels and B&B's. They can all run on Icelands renewable geothermal energy.
You have my vote, Iceland!
Owners could notify Tesla of their specific needs, and they could bring over the proper parts and supplies to effect some basic repairs.
Maybe even keep a shipping container somewhere to store supplies and some equipment.
Out of the box thinking, but not enough vehicles to justify a complete regular service center with staffing and supplies.
Perhaps having a local mechanic trained in basic services could add Tesla service to his other lines.
No loaner. We pay to have the car shipped to Holland and have to make our own arrangements for transportation in the meantime.
We would really want to know the Magic Number instead of being in Limbo.
---
@Al1 | October 23, 2017
That would be perfect.
---
@bert_troubleyn | October 23, 2017
Agree wholeheartedly
---
@Uncle Paul | October 23, 2017
Would work for us.
---
@Muddy wa us | October 23, 2017
Hope is all we have.
---
@Rocky_H | October 23, 2017
Agree.
---
@JayInJapan | October 24, 2017
All we're asking
Tesla opened their doors here in Iceland on 9/9/19 and deliveries started at the end of February 2020, at the end of the year 907 cars had been delivered making the tally 1048 cars.
2 supercharger (V2) sites have already opened in Reykjavík, one with 2 stalls and the other with 4, and one V3 site with 8 stalls has opened on the way to Akureyri with 4 more planned on the ringroad for 2021Q2.