• Texas GOP endorses Tesla's direct sale model in party platform
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[QUOTE]During a convention held in Dallas last week, Texas state GOP delegates endorsed new Tesla-backed language in the party platform to allow direct sales of vehicles in the state. About 90 percent of the more than 8,000 delegates supported the new proposal. This new support is likely to be a big help for Tesla’s next effort to push new legislation in order to sell its cars through company-owned stores in Texas – something the company has been trying to do since 2013. Tesla had a booth at the convention and discussed its situation in the state with thousands of delegates. Under the current state’s laws governing car sales, as an automaker, Tesla cannot sell its vehicles to consumers and is required to go through third-party dealerships – something the company refused to do as per its business model. ... David White, Tesla’s Texas spokesman who was in charge of the booth at the convention, called for the end of the restrictions via Dallas News: [QUOTE]“If Texas is truly ‘wide open’ for business, our elected officials should take the appropriate steps to end these frivolous regulations in 2017,”[/QUOTE] While a vast majority of the delegates agreed with White’s message, some were adamant that the party’s platform should keep the ban on direct car sales. Though it seems those in favor of the ban had personal interests in dealerships keeping their monopoly on car sales. Dallas News reports: [QUOTE]Platform committee members rejected pleas by two prominent figures in the state GOP — U.S. Rep. Roger Williams of Weatherford and former Republican national committeeman Bill Crocker of Austin – that they remove the call for direct car sales. [B]Williams is a car dealer, and Crocker is a lawyer who represents car dealers.[/B] [/QUOTE] ... Rob Braziel, Vice President of the Texas car dealers’ lobbying group, said that his organization will keep fighting for the ban: [QUOTE]“Texas legislators have gotten this right time and time again that current Texas franchise auto dealer laws ensure competition and protect consumers,” he said.[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [URL="http://electrek.co/2016/05/23/tesla-texas-gop-direct-sales/"]Source[/URL]
Who would've thought the oil giant that is texas would endorse an electric car
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;50376536]Who would've thought the oil giant that is texas would endorse an electric car[/QUOTE] Texas in an energy giant in general, they have really nice support for nuclear energy as well.
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;50376536]Who would've thought the oil giant that is texas would endorse an electric car[/QUOTE] Probably want to keep Musk happy since Spacex has a lot of facilities in Texas and are currently in the middle of building a launch complex there. Also iirc former governor Rick Perry drives a Tesla Model S.
I had no idea Roger Williams was a representative, that's scary. So obvious he only entered the political scene to support his business.
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;50376552]Texas in an energy giant in general, they have really nice support for nuclear energy as well.[/QUOTE] Which is a major contributing factor to stuff being 6-9 cents per kwh in much of texas.
Third times a charm. [editline]23rd May 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Native Hunter;50376536]Who would've thought the oil giant that is texas would endorse an electric car[/QUOTE] Despite this bullshit, Texas is the 3rd biggest state for Tesla sales, and the last time this was brought up, a news poll had over 90% in favor of allowing Tesla to sell in Texas. Even for the biggest of pro-oil people, it's a matter of allowing a fair business environment. The only people holding Tesla back are the auto dealer association that wants to keep consumers nickeled, dimed, and swindled at the dealership [editline]23rd May 2016[/editline] Also SpaceX is building the world's first private vertical launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. And Elon has hinted at the possibility of a Gigafactory 2, and a Truck factory in Texas in return for political favors. Elon has never disclosed his political leaning, instead saying he's "socially liberal, fiscally conservative, and nauseatingly pro-American." He knows how to play both sides of the aisle to get his business the right favors in the right states. Promise green to the Democrats, and [i]green[/i] to the Republicans
I can't fucking wait for the day car dealerships are done with and manufacturers can sell directly to the people. The era of the "middleman" is over and the dealership cartels will fucking die and no longer swindle people. I'm fine with used car and truck dealers, because at least you know you're walking into a battle of wits with the dealer and that you need to stay aware and take a good look over what you're thinking of buying.
[QUOTE=LtKyle2;50377265]I can't fucking wait for the day car dealerships are done with and manufacturers can sell directly to the people. The era of the "middleman" is over and the dealership cartels will fucking die and no longer swindle people. I'm fine with used car and truck dealers, because at least you know you're walking into a battle of wits with the dealer and that you need to stay aware and take a good look over what you're thinking of buying.[/QUOTE] Cool your jets man, noone else is rushing out to kill car dealerships, all Tesla wants to do is be able to sell their car without having to go through existing dealers, something which does hurt small manufacturers like Tesla because they would just be a car on the lot with normal dealers. All Tesla wants is a fair playing field, they want to sell cars their way, the way that works, and not have to leave it up to some dealership which isn't in the game to sell Tesla's, they're in the game to sell a car, this model doesn't hurt dealers at all because the GMs and Fords of the world have way too many lines and produce way too many vehicles to sell like tesla does
[QUOTE=Sableye;50377316]Cool your jets man, noone else is rushing out to kill car dealerships, all Tesla wants to do is be able to sell their car without having to go through existing dealers, something which does hurt small manufacturers like Tesla because they would just be a car on the lot with normal dealers. All Tesla wants is a fair playing field, they want to sell cars their way, the way that works, and not have to leave it up to some dealership which isn't in the game to sell Tesla's, they're in the game to sell a car, this model doesn't hurt dealers at all because the GMs and Fords of the world have way too many lines and produce way too many vehicles to sell like tesla does[/QUOTE] It will hurt the dealers when Tesla starts reach a larger consumer base and EV's are on the rise. That's why they want to keep this blocked.
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