The U.S. Justice Department is backing one of Tesla’s legal arguments in the electric carmaker’s lawsuit claiming that car dealers and others conspired to limit competition through Louisiana’s direct-to-consumer automobile sales ban, reports Reuters. Tesla is suing the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association, members of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission and a group of dealers. The […]
Attorney General Jeff Landry has chimed in on a lawsuit from Tesla against Lousiana car dealers, saying that state laws prohibiting direct car sales protect the consumer (via NOLA.com). The lawsuit was filed by Tesla in the U.S. District Court in Louisiana’s Eastern District in August, claiming that direct-sales laws “effectively shut out of Louisiana […]
Louisiana does not allow automakers to sell their electric vehicles directly to consumers, and now Tesla is fighting the state in court to challenge the law. According to the Wall Street Journal, Tesla filed a lawsuit last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Elon Musk’s company is arguing the […]
According to a recent tweet from the government of the St. Charles Parish in Louisiana, in the United States, SpaceX’s Starlink is now providing internet to the area after Hurricane Ida compromised its networking and communications infrastructure. Located along the banks of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana, St. Charles Parish and its roughly 53,000 […]
Tesla has been subject to its fair share of odd government requirements, like the direct sales bills the company has had to fight in numerous states. More recently, however, Tesla’s service center in New Orleans, Lousiana has come under fire for a law prohibiting warranty repairs, which may jeopardize the company’s ability to stay in […]