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Tesla Isn’t Allowed to Sell You a Car in North Dakota. The Law Was Never About You.

Tesla wants to open a dealership in Bismarck and Fargo. North Dakota won’t let it. Not because the cars are bad, and not because anyone’s filed a consumer complaint. It’s because of a decades-old law that was never written with Tesla in mind, and a judge just spent a ruling explaining why she’d rather not …

14 States Still Won’t Let Tesla Sell You a Car Directly. Guess Who Wrote the Law.

Nobody likes buying a car from a dealership. That’s not really an opinion at this point, it’s just consensus. A widely cited industry survey found 87% of people disliked something about the process, and if you’ve ever spent an afternoon waiting for a stranger to “check with his manager” over a number that was never …