Tesla Beijing Huamao experience center went on business yesterday. It was the fourth Beijing experience center, the sixth new experience center it set up in China in 2015.
Two years ago, Tesla open the first experience center in Parkview Green, Beijing. Until now, Tesla has set up 15 experience centers in China, distributing in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xi’an and Guangzhou.
Chronicle of events of Tesla in 2015
It open six experience centers, service centers, and about 30 authorized car spray centers in 2015.
It built the second largest public charging network for Teslar car owners in China. The network covers 46 cities in the mainland, with 320 super charging points. The network area expanded to over 100 cities and 1,600 destination charging points. The charging network connects North and South.
As far as the policy concerned, it offered special policy to its car owners for obtaining new energy source plates in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Tianjin. While it offered special discount of traffic permit for Tesla Model S in Xi’an and Wuhan.
Ricardo Reyes, Tesla’s global vice president claimed that he thought highly of Chinese market when he took an official visit to China in September. He indicated that Chinese government supported the electric vehicle market and the consumers have great demand to the electric vehicles here in comparison to other emerging markets.
Take Beijing for example, the goverment carried out the policies that offered bonus to the new energy vehicles.Tesla Model S came to the license-plate lottery on September 30. On October 26, Beijing government announced that the new energy vehicles do not to join the lottery system. The applicants can do the registration for Model S directly.
What’s more, other policy indicated that the Blade Electric Vehicels, including Tesla Model S can be on road 24 hours each day in Beijing municipal administrative region from June 1, 2015 to April 10, 2016.