{"id":979,"date":"2018-03-06T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/03\/06\/lege-trend-5-reasons-auto-dealers-oppose-direct-sales-by-manufacturers-in-the-mountain-laurel-state\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:10:00","slug":"lege-trend-5-reasons-auto-dealers-oppose-direct-sales-by-manufacturers-in-the-mountain-laurel-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-5-reasons-auto-dealers-oppose-direct-sales-by-manufacturers-in-the-mountain-laurel-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. 5 Reasons Auto Dealers Oppose Direct Sales by manufacturers in the Mountain Laurel State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Connecticut bill:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/CGABillStatus\/CGAbillstatus.asp?which_year=2018&amp;selBillType=Bill&amp;bill_num=HB5310\">HB 5310 (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How does CT HB 5310 allow for directr sales?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-define manufacturer<\/li>\n<li>Allow for manufacturer sales when:\n<ul>\n<li>only Electric Vehicles<\/li>\n<li>There are no franchise agreements<\/li>\n<li>only sells its own cars<\/li>\n<li>is duly licensed<\/li>\n<li>isn&#8217;t owned by another manufacturer<\/li>\n<li>doesn&#8217;t own another manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are 5\u00a0\u00a0opposition arguments from motor vehicle dealers in CT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aren&#8217;t you special?\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Tesla wants special treatment&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foreigners.\u00a0<\/strong>fear that 25 other international manufacturers would set up shop in CT<\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s not fair.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;unfair playing field&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>When in doubt, throw California under the bus.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c Any decision that supports a California company over our local jobs is not the right one.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protectionism.<\/strong>\u00a0A Mercedes dealer owner says &#8220;\u201cIt\u2019s not about competition,\u201d Aiosa said. \u201cWe welcome Tesla. It\u2019s about dismantling the franchise system.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/news\/article\/Tesla-makes-plea-to-sell-electric-cars-in-12729273.php\">New Haven Register |\u00a0Tesla makes plea to sell electric cars in Connecticut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Connecticut bill:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/asp\/CGABillStatus\/CGAbillstatus.asp?which_year=2018&amp;selBillType=Bill&amp;bill_num=HB5310\">HB 5310 (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How does CT HB 5310 allow for directr sales?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-define manufacturer<\/li>\n<li>Allow for manufacturer sales when:\n<ul>\n<li>only Electric Vehicles<\/li>\n<li>There are no franchise agreements<\/li>\n<li>only sells its own cars<\/li>\n<li>is duly licensed<\/li>\n<li>isn&#8217;t owned by another manufacturer<\/li>\n<li>doesn&#8217;t own another manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are 5\u00a0\u00a0opposition arguments from motor vehicle dealers in CT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aren&#8217;t you special?\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Tesla wants special treatment&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foreigners.\u00a0<\/strong>fear that 25 other\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,17,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-motor-vehicles","category-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}