How do you feel about New York anti-Tesla bill?

[Cubus]

State Sen. Pat Fahy, an Albany Democrat who’s championed electric vehicles, introduced a bill Wednesday that would yank permits for Tesla’s five in-person sales locations in New York. Other electric vehicle makers would also be allowed to compete for the permits under the legislation.

“No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk,” Fahy said. “He’s part of an effort to go backwards.”

Musk’s close association with President Donald Trump as he spearheads an aggressive, fast-moving effort to shrink the federal workforce has become an issue for Tesla in Democratic states.

Tesla still sells more electric vehicles in the U. S. and New York than any other manufacturer. The company eschews the traditional dealership model of selling cars through third parties via franchise agreements. Instead, Tesla sells directly to consumers.

In many states, auto franchise laws limit this approach. In New York, Tesla was allowed to continue operating five locations to sell directly to consumers under a deal with brokers in 2014. The state’s powerful auto dealers want to completely ban Tesla’s model.

The deal in New York also shut out new electric vehicle makers such as Rivian and Lucid, which prefer the direct-sales model.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/new-york-lawmakers-target-tesla-00252361

[Lliam]

New York Nazis.
They pushed EVs and loved Tesla before Elon started working for Trump. Now they are trying to destroy Tesla out of vengeance. It's purely political.

Nazi Newsom in California has been feuding with Elon for years.
Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to revive California's EV rebate if Trump ends the federal tax credit. But Tesla, the largest electric-vehicle maker, would be excluded under the proposal.

I don't see how such obvious political subversiveness can stand up in court. But the despicable Democrats have been trying to destroy political opponents for over 10 years. That is what the party has become. I hope it backfires bigly.

[OlderAndWiser]

So when GREEN goals do something that favors the opposition, you do an about face! Obviously, there is no loyalty to long term goals and this move is based on efforts to change the balance of power.

More hostility and hate from the left.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[Cubus]

You're welcome.

[Gwendoline]

I think that is wrong. You aren't supposed to discriminate people or buisnesses based on gender, religion, race, political affiliation and so on. Giving contracts to companies that supports a politician or political party over political affiliation in any sphere of the world is called corruption.

[AviatorTom]

Fine with me. There are too many vehicles on NY highways anyway. Let's ban all auto sales in New York.

If a New Yorker wants to buy a vehicle, they have to go out of state (Pennsylvania has good deals) and pay a huge tariff when they cross the border back into New York. Thst will help balance Kathy Hocul's budget.

[BonzoInBitburg]

I dodn't like government deciding which businesses should fail or succeed. Let the market decide

Tesla sales are down over 40% in Europe this year and almost half in their 2nd largest market China.

https//finance. yahoo. com/news/tesla-sales-tumble-again-in-key-european-regions-163357687. html

[DrPepper12]

You don't abuse the power of the state to interfere with legitimate commerce. Not cool.

I'm old enuf to remember when the GOP used to rail against that...

A live look into Lindsay grahms wet dream...

[OneViewpoint]

Please do anything you can to trash Tesla share prices. It has been wonderful shorting the stock these past 6 weeks. I'm sure there's more value Tesla can lose.

[Dargil]

Let them ban all corporations they don't like, So that they can end up living in the Dark Ages. And that is where they are headed.

[noohair]

That sounds Nazi to me...

[slatyb]

Good.

[exitseven]

completely illegal.

[Madgedays]

@exitseven nothing wrong

[exitseven]

@Madgedays We have a free economy. This is restraint of trade.

[msmissydc]

Restraints of trade? You mean like tarrifs? Imposing disadvantage to specific people and industries, while giving benefits to others, like doing different punishments for the destruction of property depending on brand?

Self reflection rarely harms anyone. But Trump voters would destroy Trump if they would have selfreflection. 🤣🤣