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Tesla Motors Inc. submitted a dealership application to the Michigan Secretary of State Office in November as a likely precursor for the company to challenge the state’s ban on directly selling vehicles to consumers, The Detroit News has learned.

A Tesla spokesperson on Monday confirmed that the Palo Alto, California-based automaker submitted applications last year to sell and service its luxury electric vehicles in Michigan as a way to confirm that legislation signed by Gov. Rick Snyder in October 2014 bans the company’s business model of forgoing franchised dealers and selling cars directly to customers.

“Submission of the application is intended to seek the Secretary of State’s confirmation of this prohibition,” a Tesla representative wrote in an email to The News. “Once confirmed, Tesla will review any options available to overturn this anti-consumer law.”

Tesla has not shied away from litigation over laws that ban its direct-sales approach.



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Tesla Submitted Michigan Dealership Application To Challenge Anti-Consumer Law

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