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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by medler on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:50PM (#31603270)
My interpretation is informed by the knowledge that what he’s saying is not legal in most of the United States. It’s understood that dealers cut into Ford’s profit margin, but Ford is not at liberty to change the laws in numerous states.
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by gpm on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:56PM (#31603307)
Ford is however at the liberty to lobby for laws to change, and to simply stop selling (electric) vehicles where the laws don't allow for direct sales - like Tesla did.

Tesla has pretty convincingly demonstrated that it's possible to run a car company in the US without paying off the dealerships. It's only going to be easier for the second mover here to also stop.

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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by colinmhayes on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:21PM (#31603490)
Tesla had a big advantage because they never had dealers. Many states have laws banning online sales once dealerships are established.
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by bin_bash on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:28PM (#31603533)
I wonder if maybe they're preparing to fully spin off the EV models into its own corporation for this exact reason: https://chargedevs.com/newswire/ford-to-spin-off-its-evs-int...
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by bredren on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:54PM (#31603713)
Does the law apply to a business unit? I’d expect it to require a new company.
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by bin_bash on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:15PM (#31603834)
It would. I'm saying they might have split the company into separate units in order to make it easier to spin off a new corporation.
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by signatoremo on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:25PM (#31603513)
I’m not familiar with laws pertaining to the dealership. Why can’t Ford sell EVs the same way Tesla do? In the same states. They still sell ICEs via the dealers after all. Nothing changes
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by bombcar on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:10AM (#31604527)
I’ve not seen the actual text of such a law, but I suspect the lawyers have and are working on how to get around them (or force a net neutrality swell of support to remove them, perhaps at a federal level utilizing the commerce clause).
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