{"id":290398,"date":"2018-12-11T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=290398"},"modified":"2018-12-11T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T07:58:42","slug":"musk-wants-to-bring-tesla-to-south-africa-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/290398\/musk-wants-to-bring-tesla-to-south-africa-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk wants to bring Tesla to South Africa in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk stated on Twitter that Tesla would &#8216;probably&#8217; open a dealership in South Africa at the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla tweeted earlier today that 11 new Tesla stores are opening this week across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to the announcement of new Tesla stores in the US, Monero lead maintainer and South African cryptocurrency expert Riccardo Spagni asked Musk when locals can expect a Tesla store to open in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied to Spagni\u2019s tweet, stating that a Tesla store would probably open in South Africa at the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Musk provided no additional information regarding the availability of Tesla vehicles in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>While South Africa\u2019s electric vehicle infrastructure is relatively sparse compared to Europe and the United States, major carmakers have begun to invest in EV charging networks to improve the proposition of buying an electric car in the country.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Jaguar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/275413-jaguar-launching-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-across-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>recently announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the installation of public charging stations at every one of its retailers in South Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Probably end of next year<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1072382521843875840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/279999\/heres-what-teslas-return-to-profit-has-done-to-its-share-price\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here\u2019s what Tesla\u2019s return to profit has done to its share price<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the brand would &#8216;probably&#8217; come to South Africa by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":290408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,6118],"class_list":["post-290398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290410,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290398\/revisions\/290410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}