FTC Calls Michigan’s Tesla Ban ‘Protectionism’ For Dealers

Tesla Store Los Angeles [photo: Misha Bruk / MBH Architects]

Tesla Motors has had varied success in its efforts to fight state laws making its direct online-sales model illegal. The electric-car maker lost a round in Michigan last fall, but now a government agency has weighed in on Michigan’s revision to its franchise law. Let’s just say that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission doesn’t think much of… …read more