Tesla charges no extra markup in China

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Price arbitrage is such a frustrating thing, especially when its extremely flagrant.

Slightly lesser cases of arbitrage, including the infamous $1=1 Euro = 100 Yen. With Apple, it would be cheaper for me to do a roundtrip from France to Japan (on a cheap flight,granted) and buy a Mac Pro there than it would for me to buy one in France.

It's harder to do with cars as:

- You can't just put them in your carry-on, making it difficult to avoid duty/tax

- There is paperwork regarding not only taxation, but also safety regulations; the latter may require inspections

- Most cars don't come with an international warranty (except to the extent required by laws, e.g. in EU), and that's probably more important (and more likely to be used) than it is with a desktop computer.

What caught my eye was this aside: "We're not even factoring in the cost of the free-to-use Supercharger network that Tesla will build across China."

What if Tesla decides to expand their Supercharger network... across most of the world? If anyone has the ambition to do that, it would be Tesla.

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