Tesla can't sell cars directly in NJ...

[pilot_dude]

That's about right, the few exceptions I know of in the Ford business do a huge parts and service business compared to sales and they approach 5%. They are my heroes!

5% is, in car lingo, a home run

 

[Comanche flyer]

It is easy to just squawk, "politics," but that is not the genesis of auto dealer laws. It is actually a consumer-protection measure.

There is nothing at all that precludesTesla from establishing dealers in Texas.

Except Texans like real cars
Thanks we pass on the battery operated toy car

 

[Henning]

Except Texans like real cars
Thanks we pass on the battery operated toy car

Many of the most powerful machines on the planet are electrically driven.

 

[timwinters]

Many of the most powerful machines on the planet are electrically driven.

Texas electric chairs for example.

 

[davidm767]

Texas electric chairs for example.

Best quip seen in awhile

 

[Henning]

Texas electric chairs for example.

I though TX was lethal injection?

 

[ClimbnSink]

Old Smoky is FL's right?

 

[Henning]

Old Smoky is FL's right?

I have no idea...

 

[ClimbnSink]

Guess FL and others was old sparky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sparky Old Smokey is NJs Chair, which was used to zap the Lindbergh kidnapper(at least the guy convicted.)

 

[JeffDG]

Many of the most powerful machines on the planet are electrically driven.

How many of those carry their own supply of electricity, vs. being connected to the generating station by a wire?

 

[ElPaso Pilot]

How many of those carry their own supply of electricity, vs. being connected to the generating station by a wire?

Well...

Burnout: 2013 Tesla Model S P85 vs 1968 Pontiac Firebird

 

[Henning]

How many of those carry their own supply of electricity, vs. being connected to the generating station by a wire?

All the ones at sea.

 

[Florida Cracker]

Yep, politics as usual.
http://mediatrackers.org/ohio/2014/01/08/ohio-republican-kill-tesla-dealerships

bought and paid for corruttion, as usual, from the WORST government money can buy. NJ has a gift for corrupt politicians, corrupt government and seems to wish to set a new high mark, every day.

Makes you think of Illinois and Nevada.

 

[Comanche flyer]

Texas electric chairs for example.

No electric chair is in use in the USA
Barbitol takes you to sleep :wink2: