New Jersey Bans Tesla to Ensure Buying a Car Will Always Suck(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/business/2014/03/6368161055_944e215d0b_b-660x417.jpg)
Image: Nicolas Fleury/FlickrQuoteNew Jersey is banning Tesla.
No, you won't get pulled over for driving your Model S on the Turnpike. But if rules passed yesterday by New Jersey regulators and backed by GOP Governor Chris Christie take effect, you won't be able to visit a Tesla store in the state. In an effort to protect traditional car dealerships, New Jersey is trying to shut the electric car maker down before it ever gains traction.
This isn't the only place where Tesla is battling such bans. Across the country, powerful car-dealer lobbies with their hands in politicians' pockets are fighting the Silicon Valley company, trying to hold on to monopolies protected by outdated laws. But there is some solace to be taken in the New Jersey decision: It calls attention to the hypocrisy of supposed free-market politicians propping up an unloved industry at the expense of real competition.
Unlike typical car dealerships, Tesla showrooms aren't surrounded by parking lots filled with vehicles and high-pressure salesman trying to get you to drive off in one. The stores are typically at malls, such as the two where Tesla operates in New Jersey. Customers can examine a floor model, learn about the design and engineering process, and schedule a test drive. One thing you don't have to do at a Tesla store, however, is buy a car. Purchasing a Tesla happens online, straight from the company, which you can do from anywhere. In other words, they work the way retail should work.
Tesla is able to ensure the consistency of its retail experience because it sells directly. That's exactly the tie that the car dealers and their political cronies want to sever. Under the status quo, dealers are powerful middlemen who enjoy serious leverage over carmakers and customers, as well as a decided lack of accountability thanks to the territorial monopolies created by the franchise model. If Tesla's stores were allowed to stay in business, car shoppers might start to ask why the process of buying a car from the old guard has to be so lame.
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This is prime evidence of the agenda.
The major motor manufacturers ie ford, Nissan, Toyota etc, all produce electric cars.
The average range of these cars is less than 100 miles.
tesla, a small Californian outfit have produced a car with 300 mile range!!
And it has the acceleration of a Porsche.... The holy grail really.
And almost immediately it's banned.. And nobody cares.
Well I f>cking care.
Evidence 101. And gold to z.
There's one of these tesla stores a block from my work in DC. It looks almost exactly like the one in the above picture.
I'm not sure what kind of technology goes into a tesla car except maybe pure electric but it's definitely outdated technology to what we could really build.
Hey Payton,
Yea but this is on sale NOW.
The first electric car was sold in 1898 , but this is now. A chance for progression.
True but it's hardly ON SALE :P a quick search shows a price tag for a model S at 92k so it's pretty much only for the rich 1 percenters. This technology needs to be affordable but I guess it not being affordable is all a part of the plan to keep us on combustion engines/oil
You can also run conventional engines on water.
Jeez i posted this 2 years ago, 38 views, no replies....
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=963.0 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=963.0)
yes there are other methods that don't involve wheels or motors, but you have to start somewhere...this can be applied to all existing cars.
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