A woman in Colorado has been arrested after police caught her with expIosives at a TesIa dealership, police said.
The 40-year-old suspect, Lucy Grace Nelson, was arrested on Monday after the Loveland Police Department launched an “extensive investigation” following a series of vandaIizations at the dealership in Loveland, Colorado.
Tesla gets around the whole “dealership” thing by calling them “Tesla Stores”. You can go there and buy a car, so essentially it’s a dealership. Difference being they don’t have 100 cars on the lot of different trim levels to pick from.
Here’s one I picked at random:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dTUisHrPt1gcEkWN7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
It’s explicitly not a dealership.
This article explains what a dealership is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealership?wprov=sfla1
Specifically:
Today, direct sales by an automaker to consumers are limited by most states in the U.S. through franchise laws that require new cars to be sold only by licensed and bonded, independently owned dealerships.
Tesla does direct sales and does not use the dealership model.
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The main difference is Tesla owns the showrooms not a 3rd party.