Tesla early final yr quietly marketed varied jobs on its careers web page that hinted on the main EV maker bringing its in-house restore retailers to Australia.
Now the primary of those collision restore centres in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne has opened in Alexandria, in metropolitan Sydney. It was first shared on X by a reader of The Pushed and Tesla fanatic, Nash.
Within the shared correspondence from Tesla Australia, it says: “Our new Physique Restore Centre is situated at 118 Bourke Street Alexandria. Physique repairs carried out by our educated Tesla group intention to make sure the performance, security and longevity of your Tesla.”
Tesla then advises the house owners to guide through the Tesla app underneath the service part by deciding on “Collision & Glass”.
Alexandria Physique Restore Centre (formally) open @LudicrousFeed @Rizflip @RahulPrasad74 @ryanjaycowan pic.twitter.com/kOLoKKvVFo
— Tesla within the Gong 🇦🇺🦘🤖🚕 (@TeslaGong) April 8, 2024
When the roles had been first marketed in April final yr, Tesla was searching for a wide range of technicians, managers and assist employees together with:
- Buyer Service Representatives
- Estimators
- Ache Preppers
- Painters
- Elements Advisors
- Manufacturing Managers
- Restore Managers
- Technicians
- Automobile Detailers
Many of those specialised roles are vital to bringing the collision and physique works operations in-house.
On its web site, Tesla states particulars of its collision centres and the the sort of repairs they carry out for Tesla clients: “Tesla owns and operates a rising community of Collision Facilities that carry out full structural restore along with gentle collision work.”
Up till now Tesla has been working with Tesla-Accepted Collision Centres that are run by exterior physique restore operators.
This will likely have been enough when the fleet was of decrease numbers however with a fleet of greater than 100,000 autos within the nation, having in-house collision physique retailers would fast-track the method for purchasers needing physique works.
With the Sydney restore centre now taking buyer requests, works on the Brisbane and Melbourne places are prone to be progressing as properly. We’ll preserve an eye fixed out for these as Tesla goals to ship hundreds extra EVs to our market within the coming months.
Riz is the founding father of carloop primarily based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV information, perception studies and developments. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for automobiles, significantly EVs and needs to assist cut back transport emissions in Australia. He at the moment drives a purple Tesla Mannequin 3.
