Ground zero, and a brick and mortar sales showroom, for the Tesla automobile, is in NORTHERN California, would be in Silicon Valley, the high tech/computer/biotech and not too surprisingly, it is full of Tesla automobiles.

I know it because I have been going down to that area in the new BMW every week, in fact just the other day I was there again.

"If there are no pic's it didn't happen".

But it did:



Right when I was about to leave, a single Asian woman, came out to this Tesla parked next to me.. She owned it, or leased it, so it seems. She got into it alone, as I left. This occurred off the El Camino Real, - in the Sunnyvale/Mountain View area, which I have been getting to know pretty well this summer. I lot of these people have money to burn. The staff car generally is the BMW now. Hardly any Mercedes or Audis compared to all the BMWs down there. The BMW showroom was on the same block as the Zico hotel, where I stay; the new car showroom, and service department, there at BMW of Mountain View was crawling with shoppers; all of them, unsurprisingly to me, were Asian.

The evolved but lower-income "plebians" still earnestly infest the boulevards and Highway 101 around Silicon Valley in their Priuses (or it it their Priuii?)

I loved her license plate. It looked "evolved" yet no denying, it is smug, too!

Next trip I ought to go check out the showroom...maybe a take a test drive and get a brochure for one of them.

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