Because dealership model is stupid. Why would consumers want to haggle with a car salesman at a dealership and pay a premium for an unnecessary middleman when they can buy directly from manufacturer for cheaper?
How do you think Tesla's are being sold now? They've already overturned these stupid laws in almost all the states except for Texas and a couple others. These laws were meant to restrict car dealerships from having unfair advantage over dealerships that they sold to. Tesla doesn't sell to dealerships, they sell D2C so obviously doesn't apply to them. I'm glad we're not being forced to deal with car dealerships and paying a higher price thanks to an unnecessary middleman. All others will have to follow Tesla's lead or go bankrupt.
Tesla doesn't "sell" it's cars to company-owned stores. Tesla has a D2C business model like Warby Parker. The stores are mainly for show and tell and consumer education, they're not dealerships. People just order online.
We're not allowed to criticize HN? I'm not sure which rules I was breaking? I simply gave my opinion on a pattern I've noticed on HN. You're censoring me because you disagree?
HN constantly attacks Tesla and Elon so you shouldn't be surprised. In fact, I've associated negative attacks from HN as an indicator that the company/person being attacked is probably doing something good.
Didn't California just pass legislation that calls for cutting down trees in forests to make them more "spread out"?
This is where they lose me. The reason why wildfires exist in the first place is because of climate change; deforestation is the opposite of fighting climate change.
Very strange California taking a cue out of Trump's climate change denying book.