matali@alien.topB to Electric Vehicles@gearhead.townEnglish · 1 year agoAlmost 400 Ford dealers have now dropped out of the company's EV sales programfordauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square188fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: cars@gearhead.town
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAlmost 400 Ford dealers have now dropped out of the company's EV sales programfordauthority.commatali@alien.topB to Electric Vehicles@gearhead.townEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square188fedilinkcross-posted to: cars@gearhead.town
minus-squarepaulwesterberg@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat would also violate Ford’s dealership contracts and would be illegal in many states due to dealership protection laws.
minus-squareSorry_Guard5001@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThose ancient laws need to be repealed but I’m guessing dealership owners are fairly big political donors so the chance of this is absolute zero.
minus-squareWhoCanTell@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDealership owners are the political machine in local politics in a lot of areas.
minus-squareNobodyTellPoeDameron@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago due to dealership protection laws Which, of course, the dealers themselves made sure were passed through lobbying
That would also violate Ford’s dealership contracts and would be illegal in many states due to dealership protection laws.
Those ancient laws need to be repealed but I’m guessing dealership owners are fairly big political donors so the chance of this is absolute zero.
Dealership owners are the political machine in local politics in a lot of areas.
Which, of course, the dealers themselves made sure were passed through lobbying