The Quaker Bridge shopping center is the hottest place to shop. I mean, if you only look at the parking lot.
In the extensive New Jersey complicated, about 40 miles from Philadelphia, the rows of vehicles include asphalt swaths, offering the illusion that the Lawrence Township fighting shopping center is in the process of brick boom.
However, none of the vehicles – all of which are Teslas – belongs to the buyers inside.
According to local officials with the knowledge of the agreement between the Simon property and the nearby Tesla salon, the manufacturer uses a plot to store hundreds of its cars.
It’s no secret that shopping centers are falling. According to local experts of the automotive industry, the Tesla Fleet in New Jersey can also signal challenging times to the producer based in Texas.
Questions about a special agreement arise at a time when the theorbing company and its tired general director, Elon Musk, struggle with the surplus of vehicles and falling demand in stores across the country.
Some industry analysts estimate that he has Tesla Over 10,000 unsold cybercriminals According to Forbes, sitting in a party in the USA, and general sales has dropped almost 9% In the first months of the year – even if the larger electric vehicle market is still developing.
In the face of an excess of almost 50,000 vehicles at the beginning of last year, Tesla was at the Sherwood News Report center, branches of Robinhood, claiming that the manufacturer’s excessive cars were Visible from space through satellite images.
According to one of the early June, at least 400 Teslas was parked near Quaker Bridge Former Lord & Taylor department store, which has been empty since 2021.
Laura Perrotta, president of New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Detainers, said that the number of cars itself was probably not a positive indicator for Tesla.
“Nobody wants a lot of supplies,” said Perrotta. “You must move the metal.”
Most cars are sedan -style vehicles, although the frayed edges of the futuristic cyberspace of the manufacturer were a common view along the southern and eastern side of the shopping center.
The Tesla seller in the nearby location of Brunswick Pike refused to comment, directing the inquiry to the national manufacturer’s office, which did not return many applications for comment.
Local officials have different explanations.
Kevin Nervous, a member of the Lawrence Township council, said that Tesla concluded a contract with a shopping center a few years ago to employ a plot for storing purchased vehicles and expect delivery.
“The number of current vehicles is different in time, but their presence does not bother [Quaker Bridge Mall] Operations or her buyer, “said Nybinksi.
The mayor of Lawrence Township Patricia Hendricks Farmer suggested that the number of vehicles was in fact a sign of Tesla’s success in the region.
“The shopping center uses the financial part, and Tesla sells cars,” said Hendricks Farmer.
Both officials emphasized that the shopping center is the main driving force of local tax revenues and that the Tesla agreement was vital for the prodigious success of the shopping center.
National phenomenon
Regardless of whether all Teslas sold, Internet users began to speculate over the dissolving Chrome sea.
In May, in May, YouTube account “Random Orange Cat Tech” published an adventure via a flight of over 10,000 spectators.
“What happens to all these seemingly unsold Teslas …?” The user wrote.
“It scared me to see so much in one place,” wrote the user Tiktok “Thrivebycrystal” On the platform in DecemberIn combination with Cybertrucks clips, detained under the winter sky.
The performance is not only the phenomenon of a T -shirt.
The arrangements similar to that between Tesla and the Quaker Bridge shopping center grow somewhere else, which results Cyberbrudowy dump at the suburban shopping center in Detroit This violated local zone codes and boiled officials. In St. Louis, About 400 Tesla vehicles gathered in the soon demolished shopping center.
Simon Property Group did not ask for a comment on the contract.
Initiate car sales offered a variety of explanations why Tesla can fight for car transfer, from the growth of EV competitors and increasing the interest rate of car loans to consumer anxiety due to the tariff policy of President Donald Trump.
Then there is Musk’s trip to politics and taking Trump, alienating some potential customers from the brand.
While Perrotta, the president of the Retailist Association, found if New Jersey really drops Tesla in the last few months, “”[Tesla] Registration in New Jersey was really profitable – exponentially, she said.
“I am sure it is related to Elon’s policy,” said Perrotta, whose group represents over 500 car dealers. “I have heard a lot of Anec3dotes from Tesla owners in New Jersey, trying to sell their vehicles and may buy a new electric hybrid.”
David Kelleher, president of David Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram in Glen Mills – and a direct competitor in Tesla – also noted that consumers are sour in the brand.
“I had three people who exchanged me in my Teslas, who said:” I love this car, but I will no longer drive it because of musk, “said Kelleher.
Despite this, Kelleher was careful to claim that Tesla was the only car manufacturer in the breakdown, which suggests that potential customers and pedestrian movements were on other dealers due to consumers’ uncertainty about tariffs and a wider economy.
However, unlike traditional car manufacturers, Tesla is in the face of an extremely uncertain situation when he tries to sell cars.
Because the electric manufacturer does not sell to dealers, and instead supports its own exhibition rooms directly to consumers, he is responsible not only for the production of vehicles, but for the sale of each car that is on its plot.
Of the hundreds of Teslas at the Quaker Bridge Perrotta shopping center, he called the “amazing” character.
She said that in addition to “mega dealers” it is more common that the car dealer has about 50 to 100 vehicles.
Tesla vs. The Garden State
Meanwhile, a mix of new EV competition and potentially restrictive governmental regulations increases the further uncertainty of five Tesla retail stores throughout Garden. (The car manufacturer runs eight locations in Pennsylvania, most of which are in the Greater Philadelphia region).
In 2015, when Tesla was one of the few electric producers, former governor of Chris Christie Administration allowed the developing Muska company to bypass the state law This requires car manufacturers to sell their vehicles through third -party dealers.
Now, with the arrival of competitive EV companies, such as Rivian and Polestar, Tesla is only one of several electric manufacturers on stage, while manufacturers of refuge, such as Ford and Hyundai, expand electrical offers.
“We see an explosion of electric vehicles entering the state,” said Perrotta.
In addition to increased competition, New Jersey officials reduce financial incentives for consumers who buy electric, according to Perrott, at the same time the state withdraws from sales tax for EVS and introduces the EV registration fee, adding potential charges for potential buyers.
There are also legislators such as State AssemblyMember Heather Simmons, a democrat who recently introduced A bill that would end the release from the time of Christie Allowing Tesla and other vehicle manufacturers zero emissions to bypass dealers.
According to Simmons, the proposed law would “equalize the game field” for the State Car Industry, whose district includes the southern and central parts of New Jersey and includes the Lawrence Township Tesla store.
Simmons claims that the invoice introduced this spring, when the name Muska was inevitable in the media of the White House of Trump, is not political.
Simmons said rather that the purpose of the proposal is to protect consumers. The legislator said that traditional car dealers offer clients wider and more reliable access to repair centers and warranty services-in its opinion, they are more justified in local economies than the International EV start-ups.
Tesla, in turn, has long claims that his direct sales model offers customers more consistent prices and a simplified purchase process.
Bill Simmons, who is co -financed by State AssemblyMember Luanne Peterpaul, is currently on the committee.
“The EVS market has changed,” said Simmons. ” [Tesla] The handle is no longer necessary. “
