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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Tesla does not use dealerships in Canada or US. Dealerships and insurance agents, brokers , real estate agents are are redundant leeches on society.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    It was a fight though, and that’s probably still going on in some states. There were many lawsuits trying to block them. At one point Tesla was opening locations on native reservations to escape state level protections of car dealerships.

    I think common sense won out, believe it or not. Given the dealership model, it makes some sense at least historically, to protect dealers from manufacturers. But when you have a manufacturer that doesn’t have dealerships and never had, where does your argument about protecting these non-existing dealers go?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Some states have a carve out for Tesla only.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Wow, 12! You’re right

    And sure enough, searching for Rivian returns that they are only allowed to sell in 25 US states. It probably hasn’t mattered much with the R1 generation being relatively few sales but now that they’re coming out with R2 and R3, and expecting a lot more sales, they need a way around this

    It’s ridiculous that any state would create a law for a single manufacturer: that needs to be fixed

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