Your point is correct....once they find out that only the Tesla geeks can repair them...this whole game ends. Tesla is a big deal now in Germany, with lots of people curious enough to buy them.
Course, we may wake up to find some company having bought Tesla on the cheap, and market them in a different way.
“Course, we may wake up to find some company having bought Tesla on the cheap, and market them in a different way.”
The company may come on the cheap, but the product makes no financial sense. It appears to be over designed and expensive to manufacture. And, beyond that, the very concept just isn’t ready for prime time. It’s an idea being driven by politics instead of economics. In the end, economics will always win. (I think that it’s the economics of the country that put Trump in the White House. Liberalism, like electric cars, just doesn’t work well in the real world.)