Hong Kong is home to Tesla’s biggest service centre in the world

The world’s largest Tesla service centre has just opened in Hong Kong, prompted by the city’s growing interest in electric cars.

Featuring a slick design and direct highway access, the new Tsuen Wan service centre opened on Wednesday, and is set to stretch across 100,000 square feet when completed in the first half of next year.

The opening comes off the back of strong electric car sales in the city, with such vehicles on the road increasing from fewer than 100 at the end of 2010 to more than 6,167 at the end of August, many of them Tesla models, according to a Tesla spokeswoman.

Last year, the Tesla Model S was the best-selling car in Hong Kong with over 2,000 sold, prompting the company’s chief executive Elon Musk to call Hong Kong a “beacon city” for electric vehicles.

The centre is Hong Kong’s first, but the Californian carmaker already has eight service centres in mainland China, and one each in Japan and Macau.

“The largest service facility was built to increase our service capacity to accommodate the growing number of Tesla owners in Hong Kong,” the spokeswoman said.

“Since delivering the first Model S in Hong Kong in the summer of 2014, Tesla has seen increasing interest from customers in the city.”