After launching its first showroom and repair middle in Thailand earlier this 12 months, Tesla has launched a further retailer within the nation’s capital metropolis.
Tesla Asia introduced the brand new “expertise retailer” on X on Tuesday, together with three images of the Central Bangkok web site. The shop is positioned on the Siam Paragon shopping center, and it may well now be seen on Tesla’s “Discover Us” net web page on the handle 991 Rama I Rd. The shop is the second of Tesla’s showrooms within the nation after the automaker debuted its first, a multi-level facility additionally positioned in Bangkok, earlier this 12 months.
The publish reveals three images of the shop, together with a purple Mannequin 3 Highland and a white Mannequin Y on show. You may also see a couple of massive shows which seemingly embody details about the Tesla’s automobiles.
Credit score: Tesla Asia | X
Credit score: Tesla Asia | X
The brand new retailer is about 17.5 kilometers (~10.8 miles) from Tesla’s first retailer in Thailand, which was opened in June and is on the jap aspect of Bangkok. The preliminary location is housed in a former Toyota showroom, that includes a five-level facility together with a retailer, a showroom, a elements warehouse, and a Supercharging station.
The arrival of Tesla’s second retailer in Thailand additionally follows ongoing discussions between the automaker and Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
Thavisin met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk earlier this 12 months, and the official has met with executives from the corporate a number of occasions since that assembly.
Thavisin lately revealed that Tesla executives are in search of a 790-acre plot of land in Thailand, the place they plan to construct a producing facility.
Early final month, Thavisin visited Tesla’s manufacturing unit in Fremont, California, earlier than executives from the U.S. automaker flew to Thailand later in November. Thavisin went on to report that Tesla was contemplating an funding of round $5 billion in Thailand, including that the automaker was looking for a 790-acre plot of land within the nation.
Tesla has additionally been holding walk-in recruitment occasions in Bangkok since as early as September 2022, and the automaker nonetheless has a handful of job listings on its careers web page for roles within the metropolis.
Regardless of hiring in Thailand nicely over a 12 months in the past, Tesla’s first customer-ordered Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y items had been solely delivered within the nation in February of this 12 months, as delivered from the corporate’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China.
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