New Jersey Removes Legal Impediment To Direct Tesla Sales

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @09:17AM from the beating-back-mob-rule dept.

As reported by The Verge, the rule-makers of New Jersey have relented, and will now allow a slightly freer market for cars. Almost exactly one year after it was banned from selling its cars directly in New Jersey, Tesla will be back in business in the Garden State. Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill this afternoon that reversed last year's ban. The new legislation comes with some limits. Tesla can only open a total of four direct sale dealerships and has to operate at least one service center. But it's a major win following a heated war of words that saw Tesla CEO Elon Musk compare local dealers to a mafia protection racket subverting the democratic process.

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Re:Sad to see the Republicans always... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-18 09:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Great point. The laws that prevented direct sales was done to protect the local dealers. Of course since Republicans believe that corporations are people, they hate small businesses since they consider them subhuman. That is the way of their kind. Christie has really screwed over small businesses in NJ with this crap. This shows he doesn't give a damn about the people.