Comments on: Rigmarole Required To Buy Tesla Model S In Texas

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:51:00 +0000

About 600 miles. Two in-state charges. One side to the other.

Did the drive day before yesterday, however not in a S.

Tesla has more class than to use the bus. They’d send a driver and a S.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:55:00 +0000

While I am not arguing that this is theoretically smart, you might be underestimating the driving time it takes to get cross state in Texas. Even with multiple border locations, there would have to be a lot of superchargers to make the return trip possible(not to mention time constraints).

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 04:29:00 +0000

Very ironic. Where are the free market supporters in Texas? Is capitalism dead in Texas?

By: JimmySD

JimmySD — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Pretty ironic that all the Texas “®freedom” worshipers need to buy their car through liberal California to get around all the “people that want to take away their freedom”.

By: NRG4All

NRG4All — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:44:00 +0000

Tesla ought to consider setting up a dealership just across the TX state line in several of the surrounding states in towns with bus service. Then, about 200 miles in they could set up one of their Superchargers. A buyer could take the bus to pick up their Tesla and then the only thing left is to go to the county tax office as AustinAnthony indicates. [;-)

By: AustinAnthony

AustinAnthony — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:18:00 +0000

I live in Austin, Texas and bought a Tesla Model S. Actually the buying experience is fairly easy. I bought the car via the internet and handled all transactions via e-mail, even financing, and had the car delivered to the Tesla service center in Austin and picked it up there. The only extra thing I had to do was go to the local county tax office and pay the taxes directly to the state to get my licence plates. No price haggling, no pushy sales tactics or a salesman having to talk to their “manager” to sell me the car at a lower price. There are frequent Tesla events across the state when you can test drive the car and I have been giving test drives to all my friend and family, much like many other owners. For having no advertising from Tesla and no dealership in Texas, this car is still out-selling the other luxury sedans. That says a lot about this car.

By: Edward Kerr

Edward Kerr — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:50:00 +0000

climate denial to the Nth degree…

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:24:00 +0000

According to the article there are only about 1,000 in Tesla.

You must do a lot of driving to see them.

Today I realized I don’t look at what other people drive. Only their driving style. So today I started to make an effort to recognize what other people are driving. Maybe I’ll spot a Tesla one of these days if I start looking.

By: Steeple

Steeple — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:13:00 +0000

Actually, I live in TX and have been surprised how many Teslas I have seen around here in spite of this. This is old political cronyism, which TX unfortuantely does not have a monopoly on.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:54:00 +0000

The “Golden rule” dude. The man with the most gold makes the rules. And yet somehow Austin still made #4 in EVs per capita!

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:16:00 +0000

That’s how it seems to me. I imagine that it would be easy to find manufacturers selling product direct to customers all over Texas. I would think a judge would throw out the anti-Tesla legislation in a heartbeat.
Wonder if we’ve got any attorneys lurking who might have a handle on this….

By: brink

brink — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:08:00 +0000

Tesla needs to sue the state of Texas for interfering with interstate commerce. They have a legally operating business out of Texas yet they are interfering with wire transactions from another state. How is that legal? Musk needs a new legal team. He does not need to undo the dealership laws just push for his own island and demonstrate that the new law in Texas was implemented to prevent Tesla from conducting interstate commerce.

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:05:00 +0000

Any chance of giving Texas to Mexico? No?

What happened to the “We the People” petition? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-tesla-motors-sell-directly-consumers-all-50-states/bFN7NHQR

It’s like Texas is from the twilight zone where all the shady people in the Universe gravitate to. Like patent trolls looking to buy legal support: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060203/0332207.shtml

I hope they are given a notepad with a specially designed website to answer all their questions while they are visiting the two non marked stores in Texas. A website that gives them all the information needed in easy to follow steps making everything clear?

By: S.Nkm

S.Nkm — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:04:00 +0000

Lobbyism is legalized corruption. How? Lobby groups made it legal.

By: Robbo Levy

Robbo Levy — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:43:00 +0000

So much for free markets and free enterprise…Lobby groups are ruining the lives of Americans.