{"id":52573,"date":"2015-05-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:30:00","slug":"ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Calls Michigan&#8217;s Tesla Ban &#8216;Protectionism&#8217; For Dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1098276_ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.thecarconnection.com\/tmb\/tesla-store-los-angeles-photo-misha-bruk-mbh-architects_100449434_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"Tesla Store Los Angeles [photo: Misha Bruk \/ MBH Architects]\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;s revision to its franchise law. Let&#8217;s just say that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission doesn&#8217;t think much of&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1098276_ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1098276_ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.thecarconnection.com\/tmb\/tesla-store-los-angeles-photo-misha-bruk-mbh-architects_100449434_t.gif\" alt=\"Tesla Store Los Angeles [photo: Misha Bruk \/ MBH Architects]\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;s revision to its franchise law. Let&#8217;s just say that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission doesn&#8217;t think much of&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1098276_ftc-calls-michigans-tesla-ban-protectionism-for-dealers\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}