<story><title>The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gring</author><text>&quot;The Product Specialists (...) goal and the sole metric of their success is to have you enjoy the experience of visiting so much that you look forward to returning again.&quot;&lt;p&gt;This is not the experience I had. Walked into a Tesla store, said I want to test drive a Roadster. Salesman went into that profiling mode that all car salesmen do constantly and no customer likes, asking me all kinds of questions to find out how much I earn. Since my answers didn&apos;t please him, he told me I could test drive it for $300 for half a day - essentially renting it.&lt;p&gt;I won&apos;t be going back.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  In case your eye skipped over the “for free” part, I would  
  like to emphasize that again – owning a Supercharger 
  enabled Model S really does mean free long distance travel 
  forever on our high speed charging network.
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I really wish they&apos;d stop saying this. They&apos;re essentially committing to building a nationwide electric car charging infrastructure for $nodollars, and never charging customers to use it, ever.&lt;p&gt;Which means either&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  A.) They&apos;re not going to build more than 30 charging stations.
  B.) They&apos;re all going to be significantly far away from population 
      centers, and used only for interstate travel.
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No matter what, a Tesla car is going to be spending 99.9% of its time charging at home or at work.</text></comment>