One of the ongoing fights in the car industry is between US states and automakers over the automakers being allowed to sell cars directly to consumers. This hasn’t been a particularly large problem for legacy car companies that have large established dealer networks. However, many new companies have gone to a direct-sales model to avoid the hassle of bringing in separate parties to sell their vehicles. Tesla was one of the first to embrace the model, but so have companies such as Lucid and Rivian. The latest dust-up in the battle between states’ dealer laws and car companies’ sales models involves Rivian and Ohio, and it has an interesting wrinkle thanks to Tesla.
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