Based. At least some people aren't surrendering.
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This is not the right answer, yeah sure you will upvote it because fuck musk, but the forced middlemen of dealerships needs to go the fuck away
Agree, but right now we have bigger fish to fry. We are in chemotherapy mode to save democracy, anything that hurts Tesla is good for now. We can debate the pros and cons of the dealership business model if we survive.
Yes, this is. Real example of bad regulations that shouldn't exist.
The entire dealership model is stupidly outdated. They add no value, and if they truly did, remove the law mandating it and let the market sort itself out.
Car salespeople at these dealerships are the prime example of leeches.
Yeah, even here in Europe most places that sell cars gave up their dealerships.
It's a shitty business model that makes no sense for the owner.
I'm not sure I understand the idea behind dealership? Isn't like a shop where you can buy different brands?
No. New car dealers are per brand: Honda, Toyota, Ford.. etc.
A dealership (or that's how it works here) is obligated to sell x amount of cars (usually same brand or at least same group). They will just be sent the cars whether they sell them or not. So in a worst case scenario the franchise ends up with shitty cars no one wants and has to dump them on the market for shit prices.
The result is often that cost of maintaining a vehicle at a dealership is through the roof because they don't have a healthy margin on new cars (or even lose money on them).
They also have very idiotic requirements at times to even become a dealer. Although supposedly they have loosened requirements and rules since no one wanted to be a dealership anymore here.
Wait, I thought Tesla didn’t have “dealerships” and instead has “stores.” Or at least that’s what someone schooled me on here for making the insinuation that the stores were essentially dealerships.
Never should have gotten an exclusion in the first place. It's a shitty rule but he shouldn't have gotten special treatment
The problem is that shitty rule is often (not sure about NY specifically) added after the fact to stop Tesla.
The general rule was always if you ever used a dealership you have to continue using a dealership. (and Tesla never has so shouldn't have to)
Then when Tesla came around the auto ~~makers~~ dealers lobbied to change that to you must use a dealership regardless. In some cases Tesla lobbied/went to court against that and got exemptions, in some cases got it thrown out, and in some cases outright lost.
The rule of having to use one if you already use one makes sense. The dealerships put a lot of money into it and could be rugpulled otherwise.
But changing a law specifically to fuck with Tesla was more than just a shitty rule.
But I don't know if NY is one of these places that changed the rules to fuck them in the first place.
Dealer franchises can suck my balls, but Elon can go fuck himself.
Absolutely disgusted with musk.
However, I also wish we could somehow break the dealer networks as well, original reason I was rooting for the waivers.
Imagine being such a dumb power-hungry Nazi you tank your entire EV company, the highest valued auto brand in history, bankrolling the guy/movement who promised to get rid of EVs. Seemingly very little "6D chess" comments about Musk because his actions are that indefensibly stupid.
To be fair, it was incredibly overvalued. Its value was driven by one of the most successful conmen of all time. I just can't figure out if Trump or Musk is the most successful conman of all time. One has the most wealth in the world, one has the most power.
It was overvalued because Elon did a bunch of fraud and about to become a felon, hence why he supported trump to help dismantle the very institutions he was threatened by.
What do you expect? What do men with power want? More power.
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I’m so sad that Tesla failed so hard. It would have been nice to see the death of third party dealerships.
Unless you can fix your tesla yourself , you should not buy one..
Agree with fucking the rat up, don’t agree with this method. The shops haven’t done anything to warrant revoking their licenses and rat’s activities are totally unrelated.
I really, really want to cheer this on. But when I step back and look at the whole picture, I can’t justify it. If someone can break it down in a way that makes sense I am SUPER open to changing my mind because again, I want to cheer this on.
If it’s really about letting other ev companies in, then grant them licenses too or take some of Tesla’s when they expire/are up for renewal at least. But to just revoke them as retaliation for musk’s unrelated bullshit doesn’t sit right with me.
Here’s another angle: why don’t they say “after seeing the fraud committed with ev tax credits in Canada we have decided to reassess Tesla licenses to operate in New York.” At least give it real footing.
Dispite my comment below yours, I also disagree with what NY is doing here. I think the most innovating thing Tesla ever did was normalizing direct-selling to customers. It's part of the reason why I (regrettably) defended the company/cars so long even if I knew Musk was a POS for years. Dealerships are horrible for consumers.
This reads like auto dealer lobbyists getting what they want being passed off as "progress".
She wants the company to relinquish its five licenses and instead distribute them to other EV manufacturers, such as Rivian, Scout Motors, and Lucid.
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Fahy said that Musk is “part of an administration that is killing all the grant funding for electric vehicle infrastructure, killing wind energy, killing anything that might address climate change.”
“Why should we give them a monopoly?” she asked regarding Tesla, adding that this bill was her “making amends” with her previous support of the company.
They would transfer the licenses that were granted to them exclusively, not eliminate them.
Seems like the right thing to do anyway. Why should Tesla have all 5. They get enough government help as is, why give them the monopoly?
The wrong part is making them exclusive to Tesla but you don’t right a wrong by committing another wrong: this is not valid ground to revoke a business license
Fix the exclusive part. Every dealership is limited to five locations: Tesla, Rivian, Jones Honda, etc. and yes, a manufacturer that controls a market can not compete against a dealership in that market. Fair. Consistent.
Then sue and try musk for his horrible actions. The rule of law should be impartial: if you don’t want to support his companies, don’t. If you find like minded people, great. Your actions are based on your morals, but law should be objective
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Yes, this isn't a punshment for Musk as much as a revival of a subsidy for car assholes.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans-party-car-dealers-2024-desantis.html
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But to just revoke them as retaliation for musk’s unrelated bullshit doesn’t sit right with me.
It should.
Rules and laws come from our values. If a company isn't moral or ethical, retaliation and consequences are exactly what needs to happen. And we should create new rules and laws to make sure they are forced out.
You do not normalize Nazis.
By publicly stating that this is revenge, they've opened themselves to all different kinds of legal pushback.
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“The Trump administration has revoked the right to do business from Fairphone, Costco, etc. due to their spreading of dangerous WOKE ideology.”
Again I want this to happen but the justification as it stands is without precedent and is flimsy as hell
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You do not normalize Nazis.
Take a look in the mirror - that's literally what you're doing here whether you realize it or not; you're advocating for their methods of arbitrary punishment but giving it a pass because it's your side doing it.
As OC stated, "The shops haven’t done anything to warrant revoking their licenses and rat’s [Musk's] activities are totally unrelated."
Also, like OC said, I agree with the sentiment but not with the method being used here.
As OC stated, "The shops haven’t done anything to warrant revoking their licenses and rat’s [Musk's] activities are totally unrelated."
Yes, but see, I disagree. Musk's activities are related. Sorry, but that's a dumb opinion, I just can't even see how anyone can believe that.
But trying to slide that in as an assumed proposition is very important to your argument, because otherwise you are allowing an open Nazi to run a large business unchecked.
I defend Musk's God given right to be a Nazi, but I don't think there shouldn't be a consequence for it. A civilization is allowed to respond to this information.
No, these two things are not morally equivalent. This is well studied, start here:
Musk has done so many illegal and treasonous actions that we should be going after. Convict him, convict his minions, convict his pet judges and politicians, convict him again, make mango Mussolini go on record as pardoning him, over and over.
There is no reason to also violate the rule of law to go after him out of spite, no reason to abuse law for personal revenge
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While I totally see where you're coming from, let me try and steelman the counterargument a bit:
There have been signs that Elon was a shit person for a very long time. Even some ten years ago when I personally thought "well he's kinda doing cool stuff in space" I had people telling me: "look at the way he treats workers".
If you did your due diligence, you should know the kind of person you're working for. So either these companies were negligent in their responsibilities, or they knew what they were signing up for and went ahead anyways.
The people who can afford to start a car dealership aren't exactly the ones struggling to know where their next meal is coming from, or how to pay rent. These are well off people that were carless or took a gamble, and it didn't pay out, and they deserve the hardship for their negligence or poor conduct.
I don't think it was ever a real surprise that he was a asshole and a very hard to work for, at least it wasn't to me. You're right that if you looked at all it was there and not really hidden.
But this is way beyond that.
Edit: oh and he's always been vindictive and petty as well.
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Good, get these fuckin swastikars out of my state.
Fuck you, elon
except that's not what's happening, they're just trying to get them to be sold through dealerships
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