Norwegians Quietly Revolt Against Tesla (Tsla)

Ahead of Wednesday's earnings unloosen nosotros create got this strange fiddling slice of news.
I'm non certain it volition thing to the stock price, which marches to its ain drummer. simply it is something Musk & Co. create got to fix, fast.
From Bloomberg, July 23:

Slow repairs inward Kingdom of Norway hint at troubles equally the automaker grows

After a fender-bender with his Tesla Model due south lastly February, Tor Havard Wiig figured he’d live dorsum on the route inside a calendar week or two. Five months on, he’s nevertheless waiting on parts—and he’s ready to sell the two-year-old car.

The delay as well as scant communication from Tesla Inc. show “there’s a lot lacking there,” said Wiig, a 43-year-old technology scientific discipline consultant inward the Norwegian coastal metropolis of Bergen. “I never expected it to accept then long to ready such nipper damage.”

As Tesla sales smash inward Norway, customers are grousing close a dealership network as well as service functioning that create got failed to buy the farm on pace. Though Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk says the degree of output Tesla has reached this summertime way it’s finally larn a existent automobile company, the sense inward Kingdom of Norway suggests Tesla’s woes don’t halt at the assembly line. Musk has struggled to ramp upwards production of a cheaper sedan, the Model 3, as well as the fellowship is said to create got pressed suppliers to provide cash paid for components.
In Norway, where plug-in hybrid as well as electrical vehicles made upwards to a greater extent than than one-half of novel automobile sales lastly year, Tesla is the lowest-ranked automaker on a listing of brands for character of service, as well as fourth-worst with companies inward all sectors.

Tesla has slipped upwards equally sales inward Kingdom of Norway for its Model due south sedan as well as Model X SUV—with prices ranging from close $80,000 to $130,000 inward Norway—more than doubled lastly yr as well as jumped around other seventy per centum through June. Its repair staff, past times contrast, has grown solely past times a third—highlighting the potential troubles it may seem upwards equally electrical cars larn to a greater extent than commonplace.

“You could in all likelihood telephone telephone it growing pains,” said Christina Bu, secretarial assistant full general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association, a grouping that represents automobile owners. “They’re heading at total speed into a majority marketplace where customers volition need ameliorate service. Kingdom of Norway is the get-go Earth where this is actually happening.”

Musk has said Norwegians were right to live upset, simply blames government for non acting fast plenty to greenlight a excogitation to dispatch repair technicians to customers’ homes. While around talks create got taken place, Tesla hasn’t filed a formal application for mobile service centers, Norwegian officials say....MORE