General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOklahoma and Mississippi have bills to prevent Electric Vehicle sales.
Mississippi would block direct sales of EVs by manufacturers.
Oklahoma's bill outlaws EV manufacturers from delivering or servicing vehicles in the state.
The issue is that Tesla and new upcoming EV companies are selling their cars directly to the consumers instead of using the established dealership model. Dealerships buy cars from the manufacture then markup the price for their own profit. By law, no dealerships are owned by a car company.
Dealerships markup car prices 30% or more and then haggle with customers over the final cost creating wildly varied final prices for the same product.
Tesla sells cars from their website and the price listed is exactly what you pay just like any other product you buy.
Other new EV companies are also beginning to sell using the Tesla model which allows lower car prices.
Dealerships lobby to block direct sales at the detriment to consumers.
underpants
(182,826 posts)Virginia prohibits a manufacturer from direct selling. The dealerships get cut out by Tesla.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Would not be surprised.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)NADA is probably behind it on their behalf.
They make a killing selling the car, then rip customers off in the service department.
ret5hd
(20,493 posts)the dealer is supposed to be a kind of manufacturer's representative when dealing with maintenance/warranty issues.
One of the great deals about EV's is that they are much much simpler (mechanically) and need much less maintenance.
brooklynite
(94,592 posts)The restriction is only on direct sales by manufacturers, not on all EVs
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)The only cars affected by the bill are EVs.
Auggie
(31,173 posts)Its not EVs (those are here to stay). It's the mark-ups from resale.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,023 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Just another step by the GOTP toward Fascism.