Posted on 07/20/2014 8:07:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sell them online. Perhaps they could set up separate test drive franchises that don’t sell anything. They could also include airline tickets and hotel stays with each sale. Fly out and pick up your Tesla, then drive it home.
I see them all over Scottsdale, AZ. Beautiful machines.
Just FYI - I thought that and dug into it. The batteries have an insulation system around them that keeps them up to an appropriate temperature even in way sub-zero weather.
The technology has come a long ways in the last few years.
1.) $500 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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2.) $7,500 federal tax credit.
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3.) $2,500 California credit per car.
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4.) California Air Resources Board tax credits (it sells them)
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5.) $34 million California tax break incentive for building a plant in the San Francisco area.
I'll stick with the tech I know, thanks. It isn't perfect, but it hasn't killed me yet.
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Exactly. There’s no objection to buying a Tesla from a dealer in Colorado or California and bringing or shipping it to Oklahoma or Texas. That’s how a neighbor of mine got his.
BTW, he decided it’s just not up to Iowa winters; shorter range and not enough heat. He can’t park it inside at work.
“In other words, could you have an auto franchise which is just a storefront, or an online presence, not a huge car lot with numerous cars for sale???”
That’s what most dealerships were outside of major cities a few decades ago, before they consolidated into fewer and fewer bigger and bigger lots. Every now and then, out in the country, you’ll still find a dealership with maybe a couple dozen pickups on the lot, which does most of its business in custom orders. I would imagine that small dealerships are more common out west, where the distances to the nearest major city can be much, much greater.
“I’ll stick with the tech I know, thanks. It isn’t perfect, but it hasn’t killed me yet.”
And that, my friends, is why those infernal combustion machines will never replace the trusty horse.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Is the WH taking advantage of these online "We the People" petitions to help unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers? More specifically, regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted voters to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers in Wickard v. Filburn , a previous generation of Constitution-respecting justices had clarified the following. They had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So why are voters seemingly trying to find a new way for Obama to ignore the Constitution, instead of trying to resolve intrastate commerce issues through state lawamakers?
"Special assistant to the president for energy and climate change, Dan Utech, wrote, "Laws regulating auto sales are issues that have traditionally sat with lawmakers at the state level. We believe in the goal of improving consumer choice for American families, including more vehicles that provide savings at the pump for consumers. However, we understand that pre-empting current state laws on direct-to-consumer auto sales would require an act of Congress.""
Again, the above excerpt from the OP is more deception by the corrupt federal government. Unless the WH can sucessfully lead Congress to petition the states for an amendment to the Constitution to grant Congress the specific power to regulate intrastate vehicle sales, the feds currently have no such power.
Hey, I don’t own one!
Just saying that they’re getting there. I live in one of those -30 degree areas and I wouldn’t bet on one (yet).
The worst I’ve heard about the Model S is that it’s too big. Imagine that for an electric car. People who have seen Teslas and ridden in them seem to love them.
Sell them on the internet. LOL”
Maybe on Amazon? Seems like they sell most everything else.
Look im not big on Tesla and the subsidies for cars prices they get. but they should be able to sell it in damn state they want without this crap..
free market is just that... free market..
I do not see why Tesla can not set up Tesla service center..and sell cars on line from the state they can sell in..with delivery the local service center...but really the should not need to play game
The law of unintended consequences will be working in the background.
Yes, the Department of Energy loan was the first government subsidy.
You could make that argument against any kind of government regulation, but you should be more worried about the unintended consequences of government regulations in the first place.
Won’t matter. Most people aren’t going to spend the price of a modest home on a car
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