Tesla Motors to Open Store in Silicon Valley

Electric car startup Tesla said it will be opening its second store July 22. According to Ze’ev Drori, CEO of Tesla, the store is located in Menlo Park, California, basically in the neighborhood of the company’s headquarters in San Carlos. The first store was opened in Los Angeles.

The new location will sell products and also offer service, additionally the Silicon Valley location will be the "place where all final assembly, tests, and preparations are made with each car prior to customers’ delivery" Drori writes. The company has plans to also open stores in Chicago, Miami, New York and Seattle.

Drori’s blog post also details the production status of the Lotus Elise-based Tesla Roadster. He noted that there are 27 roadsters in assembly and 12 already have been delivered. The company plans to get about four cars per week into the hands of customers. The first cars, referred to as the "Founders Series" went to seven individuals including former CEO Martin Eberhard, chairman Elon Musk, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, board member Antonio Gracias, investor Jeff Skoll and talk show host Jay Leno.

Tesla recently announced that it will move manufacturing of its second car, the "Model S" sedan, to California.