By Gabriela Rico | David Wichner
Tesla Motors will open its first electric vehicle dealership and service center in Tucson this summer, as supply-chain and production issues have slowed deliveries of EVs to a trickle nationwide.
The site, at 5001 N. Oracle Road, near River Road, is about 30,000 square feet of showroom and service center with a price tag of about $5 million, city of Tucson building records show.
A sign hanging on the chain link fence around the construction site announced Tesla’s pending arrival.
In 2020, Tesla dissolved its public relations department and there is no mechanism for communication with the media. Getting the company’s comment on why it chose to open a Tucson dealership was not possible.
