Tesla broke into Russia through the "Coherent"

19 July 2018

A network of salons "Coherent" has started to trade successfully by Tesla

The Company Tesla Inc. can nearly double the number of cars sold in Russia after the network seller of mobile phones "the Messenger", owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov, has suddenly added these electric cars in offer of gadgets.



"The messenger", a jointly owned mobile operator MegaFon and Usmanov told Bloomberg that in the first month of sales in June received orders for 236 EVS, which began to be implemented in cooperation with the importer of the Moscow Tesla Club. This number is comparable to three hundred Tesla imported into the country, starting in 2014.
In result, sales of Tesla in Russia, even in the absence of the Californian company's own shops and battery charging stations.
Today Tesla, which has never shown an annual profit in its 15-year history, is struggling to ramp up production of its budget sedan, the Model 3.



Buyers can choose their own configuration of a Tesla model for a web-site "Liaison" to make a prepayment (not less than 30%, but many immediately make and 100%) and request the delivery of your electric car to any city of the country where the company has at least one of the 5,500 stores, according to an announcement on the website of the company. The messages "Connected", about 43 percent of the orders were made on the Model S sedan, and 26 per cent for electrocreaser Model X. According to the dealer budget electric car, the Model 3 and the latest electric sports car the Roadster is also in demand.



Tesla Club Manager of Moscow Igor Antara said, "the Tesla Electric car can be delivered to Russia within four months after the dispatch by sea from the United States. Machines adapt to the requirements of the customers at the Tesla factory in the Netherlands".
According to Antarova, Russian customers bought fashionable Tesla electric vehicles, despite a retail price up to 60 percent higher than in Western Europe, mainly due to customs duties and charges for disposal and other local taxes. However, many local technocrats and senior managers subscribed for the purchase of the Tesla.



In the US the Model S and Model X can cost more than $100,000. Model 3 with a starting price of $35,000 currently only available in more expensive versions.
The most famous owners of electric cars Tesla in Russia are billionaire Roman Abramovich (seeded friends 20 electric vehicles), the head of Sberbank German Gref and the Chairman of the Mail.ru Dmitry Grishin.