In New York, traditional auto dealers have been fighting against both Tesla and other automakers from allowing their customers to buy directly from them. It’s a tale as old as the EV movement — the dealerships don’t want Tesla or other automakers to sell directly to their customers.
Yesterday, the Michigan House of Representatives (the lower state legislative body) passed a bill that would again prohibit Tesla from operating sales and service centers in the state, effectively reversing a settlement earlier this year allowing Tesla to operate in the state. Prior to January 2020, Tesla was not able … [continued]
The Kansas City Auto Show, which had hundreds of new vehicles, excluded Tesla due to its sales model. Tesla allows buyers to buy directly from the manufacturer, and dealerships don’t like that.
Tesla has many challenges to overcome. According to David Pogue (via Yahoo Finance), “It’s amazing that Tesla even exists. Before Tesla, the most recent successful American auto startup was Chrysler, over 90 years ago. Tesla has survived the first hard part: designing beautiful, fast, high-tech electric cars that a lot of people want and love. Now come all the other hard parts … [including] getting permission to sell them.”
Tesla won in court against the Ontario government. It claimed the cancellation of an electric car rebate program targeted its customers unfairly. The court agreed.
The California New Car Dealers Association has expanded its complaint against Tesla in relation to the modern electric car pioneer’s use of customer referral programs. The California New Car Dealers Association has sent yet another letter to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles explaining how cruel and unfair Tesla’s approach is.
Tesla has won a round in its legal battle with the state of Michigan, but there is still a long way to go in its fight against that state’s franchise dealer law.
Things are heating up in the Tesla vs. car dealership associations fight, heating up quite a bit. The pioneering electric vehicle company very recently filed a constitutional challenge in the Western District of Michigan. In other words, things are going to the federal level, meaning that big changes are a possibility within the … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The Federal Trade Commission will be holding a series of panel discussions on the auto industry on January 19th, with a discussion on the topic of auto-dealer franchise laws being one of the topics. Tesla Motors’ general counsel Todd Maron will reportedly be amongst the … [continued]
This article originally appeared on Gas2. The New York State Automobile Dealers Association is pressuring the government to ban automobile manufacturers from registering their own stores, in order to force them to sell through third-party dealers. But a bill put before the New York State legislature died on the vine, … [continued]
