Lawmakers in New York state are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships in yet another blow to the billionaire CEO.
New York State Sen. Patricia Fahy and other lawmakers are fighting to remove a waiver that allows Tesla to operate five in-person dealerships in New York, instead forcing the company to sell their vehicles through dealer franchises, The New York Times reported Sunday.
“No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk,” Fahy said in March when she first introduced the bill against Tesla. “He’s part of an effort to go backwards.”
She wants the company to relinquish its 5 licenses and instead distribute them to other EV manufacturers, such as Rivian, Scout Motors, and Lucid.
Imagine being such a dumb power-hungry Nazi you tank your entire EV company, the highest valued auto brand in history, bankrolling the guy/movement who promised to get rid of EVs. Seemingly very little “6D chess” comments about Musk because his actions are that indefensibly stupid.
To be fair, it was incredibly overvalued. Its value was driven by one of the most successful conmen of all time. I just can’t figure out if Trump or Musk is the most successful conman of all time. One has the most wealth in the world, one has the most power.
It was overvalued because Elon did a bunch of fraud and about to become a felon, hence why he supported trump to help dismantle the very institutions he was threatened by.
What do you expect? What do men with power want? More power.
Not stupid, just very selfish and short sighted. Hubris is the fall of many powerful men throughout history. We’re witnessing one falling right now.
Also stupid
I mean, yes, I agree, he’s also an idiot
Dealer franchises can suck my balls, but Elon can go fuck himself.
The entire dealership model is stupidly outdated. They add no value, and if they truly did, remove the law mandating it and let the market sort itself out.
Car salespeople at these dealerships are the prime example of leeches.
This is not the right answer, yeah sure you will upvote it because fuck musk, but the forced middlemen of dealerships needs to go the fuck away
Yes, this is. Real example of bad regulations that shouldn’t exist.
Absolutely disgusted with musk.
However, I also wish we could somehow break the dealer networks as well, original reason I was rooting for the waivers.
Wait, I thought Tesla didn’t have “dealerships” and instead has “stores.” Or at least that’s what someone schooled me on here for making the insinuation that the stores were essentially dealerships.
Unless you can fix your tesla yourself , you should not buy one…
I’m so sad that Tesla failed so hard. It would have been nice to see the death of third party dealerships.
Good, get these fuckin swastikars out of my state.
Fuck you, elon
except that’s not what’s happening, they’re just trying to get them to be sold through dealerships
