![]() Last year, we reported on Tesla finding an interesting loophole. In 2019, Tesla tried to push a new law in the state with the help of some favorable legislators, but the local car dealer associations flexed their political muscle and it was dropped quickly. It hasn’t been the case in New Mexico where Tesla hasn’t been able to establish an official presence. Tesla has been fighting those laws in many states with some success. However, now car dealerships are using those old laws to prevent automakers that never had deals with third-party franchise dealers, like Tesla, from selling their vehicles to the public, even though it’s fair competition. The idea is that automakers couldn’t open a company-owned store next to a third-party dealer after they have made the investment to sell their cars. These bans come from old laws that were meant to protect car dealers from their own automakers supplying the vehicles. New Mexico, like a few other states, still has laws prohibiting direct sales of electric vehicles to the public without going through third-party dealerships. Tesla has doubled down on its plan to build sales and service centers on tribal land as a loophole to get around New Mexico’s dumb direct-sale ban.
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