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After months of preparation, Tesla Store München is now open and ready for business. We officially opened doors on 10 September. The all-electric Roadster is available for sale in continental Europe! Located at Blumenstrasse 17, the store serves as a hub for sales, deliveries, and service, and will further develop the sales and service network in German-speaking countries and Eastern Europe.
Nearly four hundred customers, fans, and journalists joined us for the Munich launch party. It was the biggest Roadster gathering in Europe to date, with two brand-new Roadster Sports and three additional Roadsters brought in from Amsterdam, Monaco, and Zurich. With so many cars on site, many of our guests saw firsthand that you don’t have to compromise speed or beauty for cutting edge technology!
Helping Tesla mark the occasion was Matthias Willenbacher and Roland Grosse of JUWI, one of the world’s leading companies in the renewable energy sector, and the owners of the orange Tesla Roadster Sport on display at the party. A few days earlier, Willenbacher and Grosse had won the Clean Tech Media Award for Sustainability for their new head office in Wörrstadt, officially titled, "The Most Energy Efficient Office Building on Earth." We were happy to deliver the very first Munich Tesla to them the day after the award.
Munich utility Stadtwerke München (SWM) added further cause for celebration with the unveilling of the first public charging station on the corner of Blumerstrasse and Theklastrasse. Supplying 100 percent green energy, this charging point is a wonderful example of what is possible and what is to come. Critical infrastructure additions like this one will help spur the widespread use of electric cars. SWM has been a supporter of Tesla and are now coordinating projects to help the Bavarian capital become the leading city for sustainable electric transport.
A special thank you goes to Dr. Bieberbach, CFO of SWM, and Hep Monatzeder, 3rd Mayor of Munich, for their tremendous support through the opening of our first store in mainland Europe. Finally and especially, a big thank you to all our customers. You have been instrumental in helping us establish a market for our electric car and initiate a new era in the history of the automobile. You are a pioneer and a visionary.
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Congratulations on the new store opening. I love the look of the orange Sport, WOW!
I am curious as to how the utility is generating enough green power to recharge a car. Is it done only with solar cells on site?
Philip from Roatan
Wunderschönbar!
So Europeans can really begin “munchin’ ” down their Roadsters now.
JIIHAA!. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. I just checked if there is Tesla Motors in Electric Motor Show 2009 that is held in Finland Helsinki, and it is. Now I don’t care what I’m doing in work I just can’t miss that.
There will be quite a few other electric cars and concepts there too, I hope all of you that live in Finland and read this can come there.
Avoinna: pe 6.11. klo 9–19, la 7.11. klo 10–18, su 8.11. klo 10–18.
Pääsyliput: aikuiset 13 €, lapset 7–15 v., eläkeläiset, opiskelijat ja varusmiehet 9 €. Perhelippu 28 €. Alle 7-v. lapset ilmaiseksi.
Helsingin Messukeskus.
Should I comment the blog? Nah, nothing interesting there, just Tesla Store at München. Of course it is good to know that there is shop in Germany for Tesla, but that doesn’t help me much.
That is great. I have been looking forward to that opening ever since it was announced. I will be in munich for business in January and was wondering if you offer the possibility of a test drive?
I see the company is gearing up to market the products and for a possible IPO. However, I worry that you will not meet your production schedule for the S model and that you will exhaust the roadster market before your new models make the showrooms. I like what you have accomplished so far and would like to see you succeed; but, it seems to me that timing is everything and the sooner you can build the sedans in numbers and drop the prices, the better you are assured of a place in the auto industry and the less chance you have of becoming another Tucker or Studebaker.
My interest in all this is simple: I want our country to be here for our grandchildren and TMC has a very important part to play in cleaning up the pollution accumulated in our environment by fossil fuel companies driven by profit and greed over the welfare of the county.
Hi Tesla Motors - Servus Tesla Motors…
Wir bedanken uns für das freundliche und ausführliche Interview in München. Herr von Harrach schäute sich nicht, uns 50 Minuten lang mit Details des Flitzers zu versorgen. Leider war kein Fahrzeug zur Probefahrt vorhanden. Es wäre schön, wenn wir dieses Erlebnis noch nachholen könnten.
Mit besten Grüßen
Martin Zehrer - www.Paradies-Oberpfalz.de
Hier das Video:
www.paradies-oberpfalz.de/index.php?videosache=237&vdetails=1
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Hello Tesla Motors
thank you for this 50-minute interview with Herr von Harrach in your office in Munich. Unfortunately, we could not make a test drive, as the demo vehicle was on its way.
Warm greetings to the U.S. from the Upper Palatinate
Martin Zehrer
Look at this Domain:
www.paradies-oberpfalz.de/index.php?videosache=237&vdetails=1
There’s a write-up in Scientific American I hadn’t seen referenced here (or anywhere): www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-tesla-roadster-is-a-rocket-and-2009-09-28 from back in late September. Also, Tesla has qualified as one of the 43 competitors for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE (video).
Further to the above, here’s the homepage: www.xprize.org/x-prizes/automotive-x-prize
Brian H. Nice to hear about Progressive Automotive Price competition. Too bad that Tesla isn’t in that video you linked.
Here is link to actual competition is someone is interested: www.progressiveautoxprize.org/
and here is the list of qualified teams: www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams
There was also one Finnish competitor I had never heard before: www.raceabout.fi/era/ which apparently is using pretty similar concept as Roadster (except that they use different battery tech).
Seems to be that Tesla has made huge impact on industry.
…great to know that you have a store in Munich! I am looking forward for the roadster S in 2011! Then I will change from my “big block Volvo” to the future ! Warm greetings from Munich !
This is awesome. I wish our country would build charger stations at rest stops or some place so we can drive these from cost to cost. I know they will come soon but would be nice. Either way keep up the great work. I can not wait to get my hands on one of these one day. Dreaming has been brought back to the car industry. I wish you much success.
Ha!
The first public electric charging station in Warsaw, Poland and Tesla Roadster charging for free!!! (for a limited period of time, I guess):
miasta.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,95190,7262570,Dziala_pierwsza_w_Polsce_elektrostacja_dla_samochodow.html
Amazing work on your cars so far!!, I am wondering if we will see a car in the future where the roof is made of light weight solar panels and would provide energy and recharge the battery while the car is driving, stopped in traffic, or simply parked on the street.
Once again, congratulations, Tesla!
I don’t see a link on Tesla’s main page that advertises their participation in that X Prize. Did I miss it?
Also, I’d like to see a fairly real-time ticker on the Roadster and Roadster Sport pages that displays the total number of delivered vehicles.
Perhaps a similar ticker for reservations on the Model S would be cool, as well.
Relentlessly drive home your success! (ooh, bad pun)
A solar roof with new technologly should be easy. Prius has one, have not found feed back yet.
I also agree that the S should market ASAP.