After launching its first showroom and repair heart in Thailand earlier this 12 months, Tesla has launched an extra 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 website. The shop is situated on the Siam Paragon shopping center, and it may well now be seen on Tesla’s “Discover Us” internet web page on the tackle 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 situated in Bangkok, earlier this 12 months.
The submit exhibits three images of the shop, together with a purple Mannequin 3 Highland and a white Mannequin Y on show. You can even see a number of massive shows which seemingly embrace details about the Tesla’s autos.
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 japanese 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 components 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 just lately revealed that Tesla executives are searching for 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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