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No they don't.

Your Tesla will not come with a spare tire/tyre, nor does it come with run flat tires/tyres, so if you get a puncture you are potentially stuck. Tesla offer a service where they will tow you up to 50 miles and possibly bring you a replacement wheel if you're near a service centre, but this has a couple of problems.
March 2022

Actually in Australia it's 80km from the nearest service centre, which is basically wherever a Supercharger centre is, I'm always cautious reading search results, they often give you the US or Euro sites by default.

Also, not every region gets the same tyres, that's even the case for normal cars as tyres have to comply with local regulations. It also depends on where the car was made, which factory in which region.

Anyway it's obviously limited, but electric vehicles aren't meant to driven to the Kimberley, that Supercheap Solar Charger ain't going to help much! Bad luck if you shred a tyre on the Nullarbor, but then why would you drive a Tesla to Perth anyway you have no Superchargers and normal recharging costs you hours and hours in time every few hundred kilometres!
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I've mates with some pretty fancy cars, none of them come with spares or even have a place to carry one, but I doubt they care about that! It would be like the Pratt's not buying a mansion because it didn't come with a hammer!

I suppose the Tesla logic is related to how often people get serious sudden flat tyres versus a slow leak, and the cost of carrying that extra weight related to the energy cost. The math probably works out way in favour of carrying no spare versus the Tyre MTBF.

I suspect someone like Hyzon will setup a ferry service so that Tesla drivers can have their cars transported by the dozen to Perth using hydrogen fuelled trucks, and instead of driving the Tesla owner can catch a cheap biofueled Jetstar flight to Perth so they can retain their green credentials on arrival. But who the feck wants to go to Perth now, most are trying to get out!