While luxury automakers like Lexus tout their cars’ reliability, electric-car start-up Tesla has a new plan. Hey, when your really expensive car breaks, we’ll come to your house and fix it!

NEW YORK — Taking a cue from house-call services like Best Buy’s Geek Squad, electric carmaker Tesla Motors is launching a maintenance plan where mechanics travel to owners’ homes or offices to perform repairs and tuneups. Tesla, which makes the $109,000 Roadster electric car, said the plan is convenient for customers who won’t have to bring their vehicle to a showroom, while cutting costs by making a large network of Tesla service locations unnecessary.
“You know how there’s a Chevy dealer on every block or strip mall? We don’t intend to have a footprint like this,” spokeswoman Rachel Konrad said.