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Tesla is under scrutiny in Hong Kong for possibly taking advantage of tax exemption on ~500 cars ahead of phaseout

As we reported earlier this month, Tesla saw important increases in deliveries in the Chinese and Hong Kong markets, which seem to have made the difference for Tesla during the quarter – its biggest ever for deliveries.

In Hong Kong, it was partly because buyers rushed to buy EVs before the aggressive phaseout of its tax exemption for electric vehicles starting in April.

A new report now suggests that buyers were not the only people registering Tesla vehicles before the end of the tax exemption, which can almost double the price of a Model S or Model X, but that Tesla could also have registered hundreds of vehicles.
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Tesla Q1: China and Hong Kong made Tesla’s record quarter with ~8,000 deliveries

Tesla is about to release its financial results for the first quarter 2017 and it is expected to announce record revenue thanks to record deliveries of the Model S and Model X.

We now learn through registration and import data that Tesla saw important increases in deliveries in the Chinese and Hong Kong markets, which seem to have made the difference for Tesla during the quarter.
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Hong Kong cancels electric vehicle incentives that made it a leading EV market dominated by Tesla

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has described Hong Kong as a “beacon city for electric vehicles” due to its fast growth in EV adoption, which Tesla is a big part of since the company had an impressive 80% market share of Hong Kong’s 5,800 EVs as of this July.

Locky Law from EV advocacy group Charged Hong Kong estimates that the number is now over 7,000 with Tesla still maintaining over 80% market share. It makes Hong Kong a very important market for the company, but that’s about to change.
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Tesla makes a marketing push in Hong Kong ahead of potential end of EV incentives

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As we reported earlier this month, Tesla President Jon McNeill traveled to Hong Kong to lead talks with the local government in order to extend the tax break for electric vehicles which allowed the global city to become one of the world’s biggest per-capita markets for electric cars.

Apparently, the government hasn’t yet agreed on an extension of the tax break and therefore, Tesla launched a local marketing campaign to boost sales in the city before the end of the year.
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Tesla is in talks with Hong Kong to extend EV incentives and avoid another Denmark

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As you may remember, Denmark announced the phasing out of its tax break for electric vehicles by the end of 2015, which caused Tesla’s sales to surge to an all-time high in the country, but they have been virtually non-existent since then. We are talking about going from over 1,000 vehicles delivered in December 2015 to about 100 vehicles delivered throughout the entire year so far.

Now Tesla fears a similar situation in Hong Kong, a very important market for the company, and Tesla President Jon McNeill is currently in the global city to lead talks with the government in order to extend the tax break for EVs and maintain Hong Kong status as a “beacon city” for electric vehicles.
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Tesla launches the Model X in Hong Kong, sees as much potential as for Model S in the city

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Last month, we reported that Tesla has 80% market share of Hong Kong’s growing electric vehicle market. Yet, that’s only ~1% of the city’s entire automotive market. Now the automaker aims to double its impact and dominance in the EV market by introducing its all-electric SUV, the Model X, in Hong Kong.
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Tesla has 80% market share of Hong Kong’s growing electric vehicle market, German automakers are not happy

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Aside from regulations preventing them from releasing some of its in-car features, Tesla and Elon Musk love Hong Kong. The CEO was in the City earlier this year for a special event for Tesla owners and he said that Hong Kong is a “beacon city for electric vehicles”.

The California-based automaker now dominates the electric vehicle market in the global city with a 80% market share of Hong Kong’s 5,800 EVs as of this July. A 60-fold increase in electric vehicles, mostly all-electric, since 2010.

Germany now says that the local government is playing favorite and it wants to dislodge Tesla has the leading electric vehicle brand in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong forces Tesla to update its software in order to walk back an innocent feature

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After Tesla introduced its Autopilot update (7.0) with the ‘Autosteer’ and ‘Auto Lane Change’ features for Model S in October last year, the automaker had to quickly rollback and disable the features for owners in Hong Kong after a formal request from regulators at the Transport Department.

It took about 5 months for Tesla and the regulators to sort it out and reintroduce the features to Model S owners in Hong Kong. Now the Transport Department is at it again and in a very strange move, it forced Tesla to rollback its Calendar app in its vehicles.
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Tesla Autopilot is back in Hong Kong today after a greenlight from the Transport Department

A member of the media test drives a Tesla Motors Inc. Model S car equipped with Autopilot in Palo Alto, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Tesla Motors Inc. will begin rolling out the first version of its highly anticipated "autopilot" features to owners of its all-electric Model S sedan Thursday. Autopilot is a step toward the vision of autonomous or self-driving cars, and includes features like automatic lane changing and the ability of the Model S to parallel park for you. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

After Tesla introduced its Autopilot update (7.0) with the ‘Autosteer’ and ‘Auto Lane Change’ features for Model S in October last year, the automaker had to quickly rollback and disable the features for owners in Hong Kong after a formal request from regulators at the Transport Department.

Today, about 5 months later, Model S owners in Hong Kong are finally reporting having received a new update enabling the features following a greenlight from the government regulators.
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