Tesla Tries to Entice Texas Officials With New Plant Where it Could Make Electric Pickup
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Tesla Tries to Entice Texas Officials With New Plant Where it Could Make Electric Pickup



The CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, recently went to Texas to try to talk to local officials into letting the company sell its cars directly to consumers and not through a dealer network. Currently, Tesla has two "stores" located in high-end districts of Austin and Dallas, with a third one to be made in Houston.

However, they can't currently offer pricing information or test drivers to potential customers, and won't be able to do so until Musk convinces the Texas Automobile Dealers Association to let them sell the cars by themselves, and not through an outsourced dealer.

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