23 May

When you arrive at Tesla to pick up your new car, you haven’t dealt with a single salesperson in the whole process, and there aren’t any at the Service Centre where you car is waiting either. Just a huge warehouse (the Sydney one is even bigger than this one in Vic) full of gleaming new cars, ready to be driven away. You arrive and drive away in as little as 10 minutes. No paperwork to sign or look at. Money saved by stripping away that usual sales and marketing guff other makers use goes towards making the extreme high tech and luxury of Teslas affordable to all. And these Service Centres right now are PACKED. Overflowing with new cars waiting to be picked up, and the showrooms out front are swarming with potential new buyers. A clear victory for knowledge and engineering over the bullshit of social media culture.