Tesla is currently struggling with bans in North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, and New York.

Virginia law prohibits car manufacturers from selling through independent dealerships, and it isn t the only state to do so. According to the Chicago car rental atlanta cheap Tribune , 48 states prohibit car rental atlanta cheap or limit the direct sale of automobiles, thanks to long-established laws requiring car purchases to go through a licensed third party. This is a major problem for Tesla, a company which is trying to reinvent car rental atlanta cheap not only cars, but also how they are sold.
In America, the relationship between car manufacturers and dealerships is old and politically entrenched.  Automakers book cars as sold once they leave for the sales lots and in return provide the retailers with financing, writes Reuters  Antony Currie. Over time, the practice has been enshrined in laws across the 50 states. With dealerships and dealership headquarters all across the country, their political clout is widespread.
Local auto dealerships are often among the biggest generators of tax revenue, writes car rental atlanta cheap CNBC s Philip Lebeau. For many legislators, the message is clear: protect the local auto dealers, and you protect the economy in your district.
Tesla is currently struggling with bans in North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, and New York. In Texas, which has two Tesla galleries of its own, employees car rental atlanta cheap can t tell you how much the car costs. They can t offer you a test drive. They can t even give you their website address. car rental atlanta cheap And if you buy one, the car is delivered by a third party—in a truck that s not allowed car rental atlanta cheap to have Tesla markings, says the Austin American-Statesman.
Some state legislatures have passed laws specifically to target Tesla. The North Carolina state Senate recently passed a law forbidding sales not from franchised dealers  (the law was later dropped in the NC House). Tesla opened its first Colorado store in Denver, only to face subsequent state legislation saying it couldn t open any more.
"From the beginning, Tesla's goal has been to catalyze the market for electric vehicles and selling through intermediaries at this stage of the company will not work," Tesla Vice President Diarmuid O'Connell said in a statement. "If we are kept out of New York, it forestalls progress and defeats innovation."
Auto dealers claim that by allowing direct car rental atlanta cheap sales, they risk manufacturers coming in to the state and undercutting their business. Some have said that local dealers play too important a role in their communities to be bypassed.  It s a consumer protection, said Bob Glaser, head of the North Carolina Automobile car rental atlanta cheap Dealers car rental atlanta cheap Association. A dealer who has invested a significant amount of capital in a community is more committed to taking care of that area s customers.
car rental atlanta cheap Tesla deserves a chance to disrupt the sales-model status car rental atlanta cheap quo as much as it does industry design, writes Currie. There's no guarantee it will succeed. Politicians and the nation's entrenched dealers should get out of the way and let the market decide.
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