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In deze (grijze) US-staten kan men nog altijd geen Tesla kopen... dan moet men wat verder reizen... of hoe hypocriet bepaalde US-staten nog hun oude dealershipwetten blijven verdedigen, Tesla verkoopt nu al 6 jaar wagens in de US... online en via hun Stores.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cant-...161318245.html

Why you can't buy a Tesla in these states

David Pogue, October 15, 2018


If you live in one of the blue states, you don’t have to cross state lines to buy a Tesla. Graphic credit: David Foster/Yahoo Finance

Where Tesla is banned

It’s hard to pin down exactly how many states truly don’t want Tesla to open dealerships. Sixteen states have laws on the books that would prevent that, but Tesla hasn’t challenged those laws yet in some of them. More on that in a moment.

Here are those states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas.

Then there are nine states that limit the number of dealerships Tesla can open: Colorado (limit: one), North Carolina (one), Virginia (two), Georgia (five), Maryland (four), New Jersey (four), New York (five), Ohio (three), Pennsylvania (five). (These totals don’t count the “galleries” that Tesla has opened in some states, where you can see the cars and ask questions—but you can’t even discuss buying one.)

In a capitalist system, it might seem counterintuitive for a state to prevent a popular company from opening a store. Aren’t new businesses good? Don’t they generate property taxes and sales tax? Don’t they mean more local jobs?

Wouldn’t welcoming a big player in electric cars help these states with their environmental goals? (Connecticut’s government, for example, aims to lower emissions to 45% of 2001 levels by 2030.)

Don’t we want to support American manufacturing?