Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws

First time accepted submitter vinnyjames writes "States like Arizona, Texas, Massachusetts and North Carolina either have or have recently added legislation to prevent Tesla from selling its cars directly to consumers. Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov to allow them to sell cars directly to consumers." Laws that protect auto dealerships aren't newly created for Tesla, though, as explained in this interview with Duke University's Mike Munger.

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Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag

[quintus_horatius]

See #1: middlemen don't like being cut out.