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Tesla strikes deal with Ohio auto dealers 03/26 05:24 PM
Electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA:$206.69,00$-6.27,00-2.94%) struck a deal Wednesday with Ohio auto dealers that could allow the company to de-escalate a battle over its direct-to-consumer retailing model, at least for the near term.
Under the agreement, Tesla (TSLA) would be allowed to keep operating two company-owned retail stores in the state, and open only one more. The deal requires approval from the Ohio state legislature. The proposed bill would bar all other auto makers from bypassing franchised dealers to retail cars.
Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president of business development, said the compromise reached in Ohio should serve as a model to resolve fights with dealers in other states, where Tesla is confronting legislation and regulation aimed at outlawing its company-owned stores.
"I do think the Ohio solution points to a way dealers and Tesla can resolve this issue for the present, while letting both sides see how this develops," O'Connell said. "While on the margin it's disappointing that we don't have the ability to grow freely in Ohio, the compromise we achieved in the past 24 hours is sufficient for now."
Joe Cannon, vice president of government affairs for the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association, called the agreement "a very fair proposal that is helpful to both sides." It allows Tesla to keep operating in Ohio, he said, while reinforcing requirements its dealer members have abided by for decades.
The political and legal battles have been a distraction for the auto maker. Tesla is pursuing a plan to build a multibillion-battery factory, expand overseas and launch two new vehicle lines.
Since establishing its first store in California in 2008, Tesla has fought to defend its direct-sales model against attacks in other states by franchised dealers representing rival brands amid concerns Tesla will undermine their own businesses.
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can you smell th fukkery and desperation?
Electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA:$206.69,00$-6.27,00-2.94%) struck a deal Wednesday with Ohio auto dealers that could allow the company to de-escalate a battle over its direct-to-consumer retailing model, at least for the near term.
Under the agreement, Tesla (TSLA) would be allowed to keep operating two company-owned retail stores in the state, and open only one more. The deal requires approval from the Ohio state legislature. The proposed bill would bar all other auto makers from bypassing franchised dealers to retail cars.
Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president of business development, said the compromise reached in Ohio should serve as a model to resolve fights with dealers in other states, where Tesla is confronting legislation and regulation aimed at outlawing its company-owned stores.
"I do think the Ohio solution points to a way dealers and Tesla can resolve this issue for the present, while letting both sides see how this develops," O'Connell said. "While on the margin it's disappointing that we don't have the ability to grow freely in Ohio, the compromise we achieved in the past 24 hours is sufficient for now."
Joe Cannon, vice president of government affairs for the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association, called the agreement "a very fair proposal that is helpful to both sides." It allows Tesla to keep operating in Ohio, he said, while reinforcing requirements its dealer members have abided by for decades.
The political and legal battles have been a distraction for the auto maker. Tesla is pursuing a plan to build a multibillion-battery factory, expand overseas and launch two new vehicle lines.
Since establishing its first store in California in 2008, Tesla has fought to defend its direct-sales model against attacks in other states by franchised dealers representing rival brands amid concerns Tesla will undermine their own businesses.
Read the rest of this story at WSJ.com.
More on MarketWatch:
can you smell th fukkery and desperation?
all that shyt was propaganda
check this
a nyt reporter got caught negatively falsifying his review of the car
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2/14/2013 @ 12:32PM |27,897 views
Tesla's Gotcha Blog Catches New York Times Reporter Driving In Circles
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Ford Motor’s Chief Executive Alan Mulally is fond of saying, “the data will set you free” when talking about business.
But another automotive CEO, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, has quite a different objective in mind.
He’s using data gleaned from one of his company’s high-tech, electric sedans to try to snare a New York Times reporter in a lie.
Musk and Times reporter John Broder have been engaged in a war of words since last Friday, when Broder published a damaging review of Tesla’s new Model S after an East Coast test-drive. Broder claimed he followed Tesla’s instructions, charging the vehicle at two newly installed super-charging facilities in Delaware and Connecticut, but still ran out of juice in the frigid weather, calling for a flatbed truck after the Tesla died.
Musk fought back on Twitter, calling the test a “fraud” and promised to show proof in an upcoming blog post.
At 2 a.m. this morning, he delivered a blow-by-blow critique of Broder’s test drive, complete with annotated charts that he said proved that Broder’s account was false. “When the facts didn’t suit his opinion, he simply changed the facts,” Musk wrote.
How does he know? “After a negative experience several years ago with ‘Top Gear,’ a popular automotive show, where they pretended that our car ran out of energy and had to be pushed back to the garage, we always carefully data log media drives,” Musk wrote.
So whether Broder knew it or not, the black box in the car he was testing had recorded every detail about his driving experience, and seemed to leave the journalist with some explaining to do.
For instance:
Musk also wrote that once Broder reached the super-charging station in Connecticut with a display that said “0 miles remaining,” he drove in circles for over half a mile in a parking lot rather than plug it in. “When the Model S valiantly refused to die, he eventually plugged it in.”
- As the State of Charge log shows, the Model S battery never ran out of energy at any time, including when Broder called the flatbed truck.
- Cruise control was never set to 54 mph as claimed in the article, nor did he limp along at 45 mph. Broder in fact drove at speeds from 65 mph to 81 mph for a majority of the trip and at an average cabin temperature setting of 72 F.
- At the point in time that he claims to have turned the temperature down, he in fact turned the temperature up to 74 F.
Frankly, as an automotive reporter, I would have done the same thing. It’s important to know what happens when the battery eventually dies. If I were thinking about buying an electric car, I’d rather read about what to expect in a car review than to go through that anxiety myself on some deserted highway. It’s called reporting. UPDATE: In an email, Broder told New York magazine’s Daily Intelligencer: “I was circling the parking lot in the service plaza looking for the unmarked and unlighted Supercharger port in the dark. I was not trying to drain the battery.”
But Musk thinks the cards were stacked against Tesla from the beginning, based on earlier stories by Broder expressing skepticism about EVs.
“While the vast majority of journalists are honest, some believe the facts shouldn’t get in the way of a salacious story,” he wrote. “In Mr. Broder’s case, he simply did not accurately capture what happened and worked very hard to force our car to stop running.”
A Times spokeswoman today reiterated that its story was “fair and accurate,” adding, “We are in the process of reviewing the specific claims in Tesla’s blog post and will respond to those when that review is complete.
But in a post Tuesday responding to Musk’s tweets and other accusations he made in a CNBC interview, Broder defended his account as accurate.
He also said this, which is important:
“Virtually everyone says that I should have plugged in the car overnight in Connecticut, particularly given the cold temperature. But the test that Tesla offered was of the Supercharger, not of the Model S, which we already know is a much-praised car. This evaluation was intended to demonstrate its practicality as a “normal use,” no-compromise car, as Tesla markets it. Now that Tesla is striving to be a mass-market automaker, it cannot realistically expect all 20,000 buyers a year (the Model S sales goal) to be electric-car acolytes who will plug in at every Walmart stop.”
This is exactly the point I made in a Forbes post on Monday. Electric cars are not going to replace internal combustion cars any time soon. Despite the marvelous things the Tesla can do (which apparently includes spying on its operators) it is not a no-compromise car. Stopping for an hour to recharge the car’s battery is a compromise, let’s face it.
That doesn’t mean EVs don’t have a place. For people who don’t need to drive more than a hundred or so miles on a daily basis, and who have a place to plug in their car overnight, it may well be an excellent choice.
I am not an EV-hater. I care about sustainability. I worry about the environment. I don’t want our country to be dependent on foreign oil.
But until the price of electric vehicles falls dramatically and there is a national network of charging stations as prevalent and easy to access as today’s gas stations, electric cars will be nothing more than niche vehicles.
this won't hold up in court and people will not let this shyt slide
what is happening is the promise of the internet and the network
I have seen all of this coming
this is just the beginning
they can't stop this unless they shut down the internet and declare this a slave state and I am not being hyperbolic
this infringes on property rights and freedom to move in public space
they can't do what they are trying to do and for too many reasons