gotcha. 2 states of 50.
The big battle, for Musk, was in WA. --those things are all over here. Anyway, Musk won a Special exemption for Tesla.
Future Rivals screwed
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Originally Posted by Noah930
Tesla is the one car manufacturer that sells direct to the public from the factory. Why do all the other car manufacturers and their dealerships have a problem with that? (OK, I get that--dealerships feel unfair advantage, blah blah blah.) But how did we get into this industry model where cars are exclusively sold to the public through a dealership network? What's the history on this? Other than upsetting the status quo, what's wrong with Tesla wanting to sell their products directly to the consumer?
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iirc, The history is centered about 'big business' controlling too much. In the past private local dealerships selling say, GM's would often be undercut (at critical times) by a GM-owned dealership in the same region. So States decided that, in effort to
stick it to the big car companies, they would disallow dealerships to be owned by the big evil parent corporation (which are evil ... unless it's something neo-hippies want)